Agreed

We took grix from wire, he never played for us. Not sure why he came but he was injured and was never going to play.
Did he go back to wire the season after.
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He's more likely to get a pass and seems to be having a good run of injury free games.
Even at Wakefield he got a lot of tries on his own so as you say its not like they've improved him, just he has more opportunity.

Wire needed the cap space to sign Chris Sandow. We took Grix as a favour hoping they'd help us out further down the line. I'm not sure they ever did.

Definitely about the service. TJ is still my favourite superleague player. He is a Trinity success story. I hope to see a few more like him come from the academy.

In my opinion Batchelor has come on leaps and bounds.

Let's slightly tweak the question.... are we weaker for not having batch in our team?

If he can hold his Ale he’ll be fine with us

Of course we are. He's a good player. I don't think anyone would argue with that. But Scarlet suggested he'd be better at Rovers just by being there and not here, and I haven't seen that.

And if he had signed for saints or Wigan he probably would be still further on in his development, surrounded by better players , better set up and a better culture .

He's definitely not a 'party' boy.

Good luck to Jordan, it’s a short career, with a young family etc you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to provide. Isn’t that the same as any job. No one can ever question he gave his all for the club

Batchelor has always been very good and should have been our captain imho. There were I’m told reasons he left.

Are we weaker is a different question all together than if Batchelor has improved since leaving.

Imo we are weaker certainly even more so when the current second rowers like Pitts, Ashurst, eventually Griffin retire etc. it’s the fact we have nobody at second row for the future/long term.