Bateman gets better every game.

I haven't seen him play this season. The last time I saw him play was when he was being used as a battering ram at Bradford, which was criminal.

Trust me when I say he is a better ball player than O'Loughlin. The game I am referring to against AIS he was the most natural ball player on the pitch, AIS included.

He's turning out to be great signing, just glad Wire didn't get their paws on him when he was rumoured to be going there. Our best player this season along with McIlorum and Taylor.

The Yorkshire Musketeers

Obviously not to the high level he plays today but most of his junior career he played at stand off, and at 16 he came into our first team played a game off the bench at full back and was fantastic then started the next game at stand off and took Heworth to shreds. Not an easy thing for a 16 year old to do at conference level.

FWIW after watching him while at Bradford and keep tabs on him at Wigan - and hearing glowing reports from Wigan fans at work - the key thing he has picked up is consistency. He's dropped weight and switched sides since moving to Wigan, but in 2012 - when he was awarded Young Player of the Year - and the once or twice he wasn't broken last year he was playing just as well as he is now.

I'd sit with his grandad and from what he was saying when administration mk1 was happening there were offers from 3-4 NRL clubs, that will only increase I reckon. I think, no matter which club he plays for, he was always going to make it and probably make it very big. I for one was gutted when he left, I still am, he was living his dream but the financial fall-out put paid to that. Naymind, we still have Tom Olbison...!