a load of rubbish. hickey with a good off season will be 10 times a better player than he is. can't see where you get cleverness and guile from. the last game he played, the only 2 passes he made went to ground. other players had to come back on and do extra time because he was too cream crackered because he had been missing training the usual monday morning phone calls with mystery illnesses. as for korki, don't think he has done much wrong this season run hard and gave 110% taken needles for rib injuries to allow him to play when we wete down on props early season and up to 3 needles a game in his knee late season and missed 2 games. was offered a contract at london when others were jumping ship, yet stayed with wakey. if we get as much commitment from the players we sign this season i will be satisfied

Size and fitness can be sorted within 8 weeks with proper training and diet. The question is how has kear asked his side to be trained? Looking at them I would say as lean as possible. I think the whole team apart from a couple all need some size

Hickey was awarded MOM for Wakefield in this morning's RLE for the Academy. Even though Trouty scored from a distance.

Apparently Ross Spiers was injured and Hickey had to stop on longer than expected- bless

As far as I remember Gledhill had that one decent game on debut, then failed to impress after that.

That was the point of my Post, I am saying he has potential but needs a few constant games. Nobody plays/works well when their confidence is getting knocked.

It's easy to like Ben Gledhill because he has something that can't be coached and that's heart! You can train the house down, live in the gym, pump yourself up with layers of muscle but if you ain't got the attitude, the heart and the genuine passion for the club you're wasting everyone's time.

Ben has a big frame and he needs to develop it by adding 20+ pounds of muscle evenly distributed over his whole body and not just round his chest and shoulders.

How many times have we seen a player who was physically smaller than his peers but had the heart and attitude that most players lack. Unfortunately for most of these players there's nothing you can do to make them physically bigger, Johnny Thompson springs to mind, but with Ben there is every chance of improving his physique.

It would be a real shame to see him leave when he has so much potential and if given the right conditioning programme he's not the far from being able to realise his potential.