I agree with 1315. Would have liked to see him there for one more season. His experience would have been helpful.

Good luck Ryan. A joy to watch when you came here in 2006. A century of appearances for us as well, I believe.

Out of interest how many is a lot of fans?

Fabulous player in his first stint and a great player for Wire but, if we're honest, his "homecoming" has been a bit of a let down.
Dont konw if this is down to the player, coach or club.
Strange that the club haven't announced his release and even more strange that he didn't play when we had so many injuries etc.

As I said great for Trin first time around and good luck to the lad.

A lot more than the single digits who actually post on the forum and probably growing outside his bubble after every game.

....... "probably"

That's convincing.

take a walk round normy or sharlston or even into wakey it’s certainly not a probably the amount of people becoming disinterested with our club is becoming a flood

That's not what he said though. Being disinterested with the club and wanting Chester to go are two different things.

Using the "probably" to make a point that he is trying to paint as a fact just needed calling out.

Stop nit picking Pop tart You seem to be doing it a lot lately. You didn't used to be like that

It depends on the circumstance and what has happened

If he has decided he doesn’t want to play as he wants to set a business up
That is taking the mick at the highest level out of the club and fans as we needed an outside back, we’ve had to bring in Kaye and senior on loan, Atkins was brought in to cover both of those positions

It might be we have asked him to leave to make wage room for battye as an example
In which case I have no issue with that and wish Ryan all the best

I don’t have the full facts but after being involved in our game and Wakey for 30+ years I would like to think I am good at reading between the lines

My guess is he’s decided to leave us

It’s only a guess
Which is why I’d love to hear something official

I’m with Mopsey on this one, I have a large number of Trinity supporting friends and the majority of them would applaud the appointment of a new Head Coach. It’s not going to happen though, Carter won’t sack his best mate and has instead brought in Willie Poching to paper over the cracks in Chester’s wall. I applaud bringing Poching in, hes a Trinity favourite and a v good coach but I don’t agree with the reasoning behind his appointment.

I guess Ryan Atkins has come across an opportunity too good to turn down at this moment in time.

He developed into a top class centre at Wakefield and gave us some great performances. I really enjoyed his match ups against Cas's Michael Shenton during that period.

Also remember him turning up at The Eagle, down Flanshaw, with his mate Kelvin Fletcher to support the Brennan Rooney fundraising, although I wasn't present for his visit to The Toby Carvery with Chanelle Hayes.

Best of luck Ryan.

That was comedy

We came back on the same flight as the team from Perpignan airport after they had played Catalan. This was back when you could fly direct manchester. Incidentally it was miles easier flying from Manc you could walk from the airport to the city centre it was that close


I asked Ryan about Chanelle on way back
Probably something like I bet ziggy was fuming with you

He said something to the effect please m8 don’t talk about Chanelle
I suspect he’d had enough of hearing her name at that point

Even to this day Ryan’s nick name to us was Chanelle lol