Signed for the rest of the season and 2020

Legend of a player at wire. Wish he would've stayed so we could have given him a proper send off. If he was fit he would still be in wires first team in my opinion. Hope he does well for you.

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he'll do ok on left wing...he certainly know where the try line is & scored a few for us in a fairly poor team that didn't create many chances first time round...perhaps it's an omen considering our last dozen or so games

He’s a centre imo not a winger.

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Yep clearly a centre.
Not sure how it will work in 2020. Guess it's insurance against TJ not recovering.
Atkins with Tupou outside will take some stopping.

Why have wolves been playing him on wing this season then - tupou wouldn't get a pass off him

Well he's hardly played recently but I reckon in his 10 years at Warrington you'd be hard pressed to find 5 games where he played on the wing.

Though Chester said he would play second row

Great work from carter

I absolutely applaud MC for the last week, clearly we need fresh players and this will all need paying for too, we couldn’t ask for a better chairman

He’s brought in some really good players to get us going at the death of the season

Welcome back Ryan

Psssst MC is no longer the Chairman

If his body is up to it then second row would be a good option

The journos mooted this a while back, I think he is injured at the moment though? Could be wrong.

He has posted that he is optimistic re.getting all clear to resume playing within a few days.

He played centre for us and Warrington. He’s been on the wing occasionally but so have most centres.

One things for sure is that he’s unlikely to have gained rather than lost the pace to be a winger in the last few years. It’s common for wingers to become centres but I can’t recall it going the other way to often.

Positive signing this one. Help the youngsters along and centre/2nd Row options bolstered for next year. We’ve come up short on adaptability when the injuries piled up and need to put measures in place for next year

A wealth of top flight experience and a winning mentality will only enhance our 1st team and youngsters coming through ,thumbs up to the club for another great signing .May be coming to the back end of his career but still got it in my opinion when I’ve seen him play .

He ripped through us when we were at their place so can't be that bad.

I wouldn't be shocked to see him as loose if he gets clearance

Are you sure, with our defence

He did say 'ripped', that suggests a paper bag?

Fair point. I'll rephrase to...... Better than what we have.

not sure on this one - but anything is better than we are dishing up at the moment.

its a shame the way he's left especially since he's in his testimonial year, for all the good stuff warrington seem to do, we always seem to balls up sending long term players out in awkward fashion, its been happening for years.

Atkins got ousted from his favoured left centre position for goodwin who has a tremendous left foot step (i'm not sure we've had great value for money from him overall but thats another thread) so he got shifted to the right whereupon he was in and out of the team as toby king started combining with charnley better.

We've mooted the possibility of moving him into the back row as he is a very strong ball runner, with good metres after contact and a quick PTB, however it's never happened, and i can't recall him filling in there ever over 10 years.

Whilst there's a lot of fans sad to see him leave like this without a proper send off, there's also a fair few that lost patience with him a while ago on his reluctance to pass to his winger, and on the occasions he did they were awkward offloads that usually went into 2nd row of the crowd.

I've enjoyed having him here, he was part of the tony smith revolution, i wasn't keen when we first signed him as he had displayed no ability to tackle when i'd seem him playing for you, but that came along pretty quick.

All the best Rhino.