sorry people but what a greedy ba**ard

fair enough he is good but pass man

Maybe so, but any England back is still average.

What's the story has he officialy gone or was he injured?

I think it's plural scapegoats this year.

Atkins' stats tell us all we need to know about his passing game. It's sad that Petersen copped as much flak as he did eh? The injury prone waste of space

Peterson is a good player, I saw him play in the NRL enough to know that, and although he hasn't shown it at Wakefield, he is a better player than Blanch. Whenever I have seen him play for Wakefield he never seems to get any service, but maybe things just haven't worked out for him, some players just can't settle in a new environment.

Got it in one. Senior made him look like a right mug

The lad is not a centre, no natural ability for it. He is a generic rugby player without a brain and sums up everything wrong with the game in the UK.

Take a lad fit his body type to his position and ignore the skill development.

So your knowledge on what makes a good centre is better than both John Kear and Tony Smith then?

Both top class coaches who have seen his ability and picked him in that position.

If Offiah in his prime played outside Atkins; he wouldn't trouble the Opta stats!

The fact that Atkins is regarded as a top England Centre is a sad endictment of the standard of English/British Centres; he is incapable of putting his winger away and his defensive lines are appalling.

It takes more than size and brute force to make a top Centre..........

ive been saying this for the last 18 months the lad isnt a centre he is a winger or at a push a 2nd rower

Prepare to be hung drawn and quartered for having such radical views! Atkins is the messiah remember............

If ever there is a player to come back and bite yer this lad is one of them.
When he's surrounded by better players and has more competition for his place i think his quality will out.
Whatever his recent perfromances he wasn't given an england shirt out of pity and IT wasn't long ago you all were ranting how great he was and what an injustice it was that senior went to the WC.
I'd welcome him at leeds and i'm sure when you all calm down there's been many wakey players who's form has dipped in the past who you've not castigated like you are now with atkins.

"form has dipped" i would say absolutely been missing for over 18 months..the dick couldn't even bring his passport to the catalans game last year..YOU CAN HAVE THE LAZY PRIMA DONNA !! and i don't normally criticise any player.

No it makes there choices limited at best.

A centre who cannot/will not pass is no centre at all, i got a lot of time for him, but I wish that he would start even offloading and if he can apply himself to learning, then we could have a great player on our hands