17yr old currie set for his debut v widnes. many say hes a future england capt should we have tried a bit harder to keep him?

With a player as young as that if its anything like football we wouldnt have had much choice we would just have to have been paid compensation by Wire depending on when he left.

I'm not sure if it is, he only left Wigan after the scholarship period ended. Pretty sure Warrington are paying him more, but if you had increased his wages you would have also had to do so with the other England Academy players. He's going to be a brilliant player though.

16 i think when he left it seems wigan wanted to pay him peanuts so wire steped in and offerd 4x the amount wigan were prepaird to pay

at some point in the near future Wire are going to go the way of Bradford if they carry on throwing money around tag lag, it's gonna make for some fun reading when it happens

Think wire offered him a lot more money after the 16's scholarship games! What's the lad to do? Take the lots more money of course! And by all accounts he's progressed well through the ranks! Good on him! Gotta make money while you can I suppose and they are giving him the chance he probably deserves! He was one of wigans starlets in the 16's but didn't offer him what wire did! Sure it won't be the last time this happens!

rather like wigan when they had to sell central park!

the irony is it'll be a cold day in hell before simon moran stops bankrolling the wire, so dream on!

would we be happy thou if this was the case with Tompkins plus hes a wigan fan

Not sure really, don't rate Tompkins at all........

Now TOMKINS - That's another matter altogether.

He's useless. Not even a very poor man's Danny Brough. Even the idiots on Sky don't big up Tompkins.

Or alternatively, when they had to fill in a coal mine that had collapsed beneath the new stand.

Do you guys never tired of getting your facts wrong?

A bit more to it than that.
He played one off v the other and IL said enough was enough and wasn't prepared to be messed around.. There was also a little "bonus" from Warrington.

Good luck to the lad he looks a very good player, and he got the best deal for himself. Time will tell.

Fantastic player, very down to earth and has one hell of a desire to win

good luck ben fully deserved