https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... lves-move/ Does this explain why Powell not too fussed about Ellis Longstaff?

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... lves-move/ Does this explain why Powell not too fussed about Ellis Longstaff?

You’re getting a top tier prospect there if that comes off. The competition at Wigan is huge but I think he’s good enough to see it off over the next 18 months or so. He possibly sees a quicker route to a first 17 spot at Wire and I presume it’s a good offer on the table. It would be a pretty big coup that one and pound for pound I think could end up being one of your best signings for a good while.

A really good signing, he looks quality and still only 18. I think its also a good indication that Powell knows who he wants and is making the changes at pace. He still needs to get them all working as a team and motivated of course (haha).

Just a tad suspicious as to Wigan`s motives in selling him, if he is so good.

Never seen the lad play, but he features (If selected) in the next Premier Sports televised game playing for Newcastle, so with Riley Dean also playing ,it is well worth viewing.

Cracking player for you guys if you can snare him.

I don’t think we are selling him, I think we’ve been slow in tying him down and he’s free to field offers from elsewhere. I presume Wire have blown ours out of the water and I can understand why. You’ve signed ex Wigan forwards like Bullock, Kibula, Hughes etc over the last few years and I can recall coming on here and questioning the lot of them but not with this lad. If you get him, I think you’re getting a lad who will play for England at some point.

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OK.

Thanks for the information

Thanks for your assessment. Hope he turns out to be a top player at whichever club(s) in the future.

As NK has said this is probably your best signing.

Wigan victims of their own success bringing through too many players.

He’s twice the player Longstaff is.

Longstaff is still pretty decent. I’m sure they’ll both be figuring in Powell’s plans for the future. Hughes will be off at the end of the year and Currie the next (depending on form and if anyone comes in for him sooner). I trust Powell’s judgement on young talent and I’m glad we’re not throwing all our eggs in the NRL basket.

Yeh, certainly looks like it mate doesn’t it. Interesting times….

Can`t see Powell offering Currie a new contract, even if he regains some form, unless he is prepared to accept a significant pay drop for 2024 onwards.

He’s already took a big drop in his last contract.
Currie is a great versatile player. He like every other outside back/backrower is playing with a beaten pack. There has been no weight up front.
I’m not convinced we’ve enough depth to maintain the ‘possible’ improvement v Hull, of which the jury is still out on. We'll see v Salford.
We’ll see some ability again on 2023.

OK, but you fail to mention his defence.

He is a forward, he should be able to tackle.

He is also tackled far too easily by players much smaller than him that he has the stature to beat.

When you’re behind a beaten pack you fail at almost every level through fatigue.
Can you honestly point out a single player in our team that had played better than any time of their career this season? Even Wrench and Thewlis have been way off the stand out mom performances of last season.

Currie is not a back.

He is a forward, he is currently our worse forward.

I didn’t say he was ‘
“a back”.
I said he is a back/backrower. He’s a very useful versatile player.
He’s played in the outside backs, halves and a running forward.
With the space created by having props that draw defences, he will can terrorise. He’s looks spent, but so have countless players in poor teams. I really expect him to shine in 2023.

I think we'll forever be waiting for Currie to get back to his best. It's never going to happen.

Well he has the start of 2023 to impress and prove doubters wrong.

A very good signing for Wire, I've watched Nicholson coming through the scholarship and academy at Wigan and he is a great prospect. I'm not sure if he is best suited to 2nd row or loose forward.
From a Wigan p.o.v. I'm really sorry to see him go but he has a lot of competition in front, around and pushing him.
Farrell, Bateman, Isa, Smithies, McDonnell, KPP and Nsembo are also fighting for those places, so he probably has an easier pathway to 1st team at Wire.
Really disappointed to see him leave but good luck to him

Thanks Brian,

A good addition to our backrow for the future, from all the reports from the Wigan fans, who have posted about him on here.

Sadly, it does look that way.

It looks to me that Currie is involved with the dissent against Powell that a lot of our senior players have taken.

With Charnley now gone, King gone for this season, and Cooper gone for 2023, the player group should understand that they will not win this battle of minds.

Confirmed

Great signing from Warrington, but got to be massively concerning for Wigan. He's clearly their best young forward and now they can't keep him not only away from the NRL, but from a Super League rival. Bizarre stuff.

Available with immediate effect, which is a bonus.