Agreed Yed,
We should make it that the first person to post a link where Clarke mentions Warrington in a interview gets a chufty badge and perhaps a 10 point start for the 2015 tipster campaign?

Yes - pretty disappointed that he hasn't mentioned us AT ALL - and more disappointed that he's already talking about what he wants to do next, before we've had a mention.

Don't get me wrong, glad we have him - but still not a great attitude.

I'm usually quite astute, I knew King was leaving before most because I was picking things up in the way he worded stuff and acted in interviews, he was never going to re-sign.
So we need to be in the market for another hooker probably start planning end of 2015.

Let him go now for me then
I'd rather not have someone who doesn't want to be here.
£200k....doc kcok?

Im sure he will do an interview soon in which he will tell us what we want to hear and everything will be ok...

for a couple of years.

Sorry, but this is absolute rubbish. Because there's no mention of Warrington in the answer to a loaded question doesn't mean he's been virtually forced to come here. You're making out a conspiracy theory out of nothing. The best thing he could possibly have done is sign for us, seeing as the heart of the Cas team from this year has been ripped out of it.

From a BBC article at the end of August:

[i"Warrington are a massive club and have been involved in finals and massive games over the last few years," Clark told the Wolves' website. "As a player that's what you want to do within the game; win trophies, play in big games and finish high in the league every year and that's what Warrington have achieved.

"It feels like the right move for me to step forward." [/i

Badge please

Lets be honest, he isnt a warrington lad... we know he isnt going to stay here for the rest of his career... Like most, he quite rightly wants to go to the NRL at some point.

I don't really see what the issue is.

We tried to sign John Bateman several times and on each occasion he turned us down because he wanted to play for his home town club. I get the impression that Clark is in a similar position at the moment. And you can probably add to that a bit of resentment that he was sold with probably little consultation as Cas were in a miserable financial state at the time. But it is a professional sport, and as he gets older, takes on more responsibility, starts to think about where the dosh is going to come from when he is 35, I think sentiment will disappear out of the window. And of course he is playing a team sport - both he and the rest of the team can only succeed if they all work together and 'bond'. By this time next year he ought to have plenty of mates at Wire that he is loathe to let down.

Leave it a year and then see what he is saying.

Chufty Badge award to Kevin Turnwheel.

give it 4 months, all we'll hear on twitter, is about Nando's stockton heath, Costa Golden Square, and Golfing with Briersy

Until this season is over he is still a Castleford player and I don't mind at all that he's not mentioned us or that he's talked a lot about that he'll miss Cas.

If he's still signing this tune through the Winter then I'll be unhappy but he may very well not.

Give him the benefit that he's never even been seen as a Wire at all yet.

" It's always been a dream of mine to play for Wire, and to do it alongside Gaz Hock was unbelievable"

Daryl Clark, Lance Tod Trophy Winner 2015

Maybe he is upset that people keep spelling his name wrong?

I'm not bothered if he isn't dancing through the streets saying what a dream it is to be a Wire player.

He's a professional and I expect him to deliver on the pitch because it's his job. I'm confident he'll do that.

Every team will have players who's ideal scenario would be to play for their home town climb but they still perform.

In any career, you often have two choices. You stay with that which is familiar and comfortable but perhaps doesn't offer huge rewards in terms of monies and success, or you throw yourself into new environments that are unknown, risky, demanding and provide a lifestyle and rewards accordingly.

I'm sure Clarke loves Castleford and didn't want to leave, but he could have spent his entire career there and not accumulated the medals Warrington players have won since 2009. A playing career is short and that's a long time to reflect on what might have been.

Nothing wrong with that, but let's not delude ourselves that, to Clark, Wire are merely a stepping stone in his career, so in 2 or 3 years when he inevitably jumps ship to a more prosperous environment, we shouldn't slag him off for doing so.

Personally, I'm just a little concerned about signing players who have more personal ambitions than any ambition for the club they are joining - As I said before, it appears Wire could be any side in the world to Clark, we just happen to be the ones paying the most for his services.

I agree this is probably the case for 99% of players who will sign for any club, but it would have been nice if Clark gave the impression he might actually be looking forward to playing Wire and not simply doing so to further his own career, or save Cas's board's finances.

So everyone has decided that Clark is only using us as a 'stepping stone' and doesn't want to come here, because of the fact that he hasn't spent his last few months as a Cas player, talking about how excited he was to be joining Warrington...

Clark did the right thing by keeping his mouth shut and not mentioning Warrington. When Jamie Peacock left Bradford for Leeds he refused to do any interviews about Leeds until the next season because he didn't want to disrespect Bradford fans. But there have been a couple of cases where people have committed these faux pas and got in to trouble with their previous clubs: Mick Potter did a publicity shot with Bradford that appeared on the Bradford club website while he was still Saints coach, and I think the other was Luke Robinson who posed in a Huddersfield shirt while he was still playing for Salford.

We will judge how much Clark is committed to Warrington by how well he plays.

As for having ambitions to play in the NRL, it's a bit of a no brainer that any ambitious player would want to do that, or at least respond to a journalist question in a positive way about it.

Lets be honest the only way Clark is going to get his NRL move is if he maintains his Cas form with us. If he has a drop in form then I don't expect the big guns will come knocking.

Andy Gregory 2 ?

Ihope he doesn't go to Starbucks then

Starbooks

If he moves to the NRL in 2-3 years, we'll have had a great hooker who's hopefully helped us to more silverware....

Spot on, Dita's.
For me, these quotes have a worrying similarity to a certain player we had a couple of decades ago.
He started like a house on fire, and his career escalated rapidly.
I still remember reading an article about him in one of the Sunday papers (on the back of another superb performance in a Wire jersey), saying he's going to go to Rugby Union. Within 6 months, his performances (for us) had dropped a little, he fell out with the new coaching regime, and within weeks of that, he's gone to Leeds. 2 years later, he got his ambition, and played Union.

In that article, there was little mention of Warrington, only about him and his career. Step forward Iestyn Harris.

Now, from what we hear, Clarke's making the same noises, unless these interviews/articles are being HEAVILLY edited, and we're only seeing or hearing what we want to see or hear.

Let Clarke establish himself first in his new team, before we (or him) start getting a bit too far ahead of ourselves. Let's not forget, quality hookers (presumably) are 10 a penny in Oz. Over here, they stand out as the exception (Roby, Clarke...but not Cackybumbum)

There's a big difference between this situation and that.

We haven't got Alex Murphy as our Director of Rugby, we aren't broke, and the club isn't heading downwards fast.

An elite player like Iestyn Harris is never going to stay that long at a club in the state we were in back then.