[quote="BOSS HOG":2oy1gox1]CTW is the best back that our Academy has produced since Iestyn Harris and like Harris he will be a regular 1st team player at a young age, and will dominate Super League. How Wire manage his transition to our 1st team 17 man squad is a quandary. There is no point in playing CTW in the reserve team this season. I watched him play in the reserves last season and the level was too easy for him IMHO and he won`t develop his game and extend himself playing there again, now that he is a year older. He needs to play in Super League regularly, maybe play him on the bench for now?, ........but that would mean that the bench is a little light weight. He has the ability to break down defences and win the big games that we need in the tight end of season matches.[/quote:2oy1gox1] As you say it’s a quandary what to do. I would not like him loaned out to another super league team just to get game time but I could understand he could get a little frustrated. I think he will get game time in 1st team this season whether it’s injuries or just resting players he will get time. How long as Dufty got left on his contract.

[quote="Crosswire":tlo7i8hw]How long is CTW signed for? If he is that good NRL and other SL clubs will no doubt be sniffing around.[/quote:tlo7i8hw] He has signed a contract with Wire, that expires at the end of the 2028 season :- https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... lves-deal/

[quote="Crosswire":tlo7i8hw]How long is CTW signed for? If he is that good NRL and other SL clubs will no doubt be sniffing around.[/quote:tlo7i8hw] He has signed a contract with Wire, that expires at the end of the 2028 season :- https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... lves-deal/

Think we are forgetting that CTW and Dufty don’t have kicking game unlike Leon and Oli Leyland.

[quote="Crosswire":aw9vuhfa]How long is CTW signed for? If he is that good NRL and other SL clubs will no doubt be sniffing around.[/quote:aw9vuhfa] Fortunately for us, full back is a position where there is an embarrasment of riches in the nrl. Plus, we're no longer the same club we were when Harris and Sculthorpe broke through and we were forced to sell. It's highly doubtful another super league club could prise him away from us.

Dufty ,you don't throw one of your best strike weapons away for a youngster who needs to be nurtured & eased into 1st team rugby & I'm .sure when CTW pulls on his own number 1 shirt he will explode onto the scene as a very competent player.

Reading on here it seems we are putting a lot of faith in Hayes who, after all, has played 11 1/2 games of top level RL.