Doesnt look like Ratchford will be joining you after all
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Ooh these internet pranksters certainly know how to start the rumours flying dont they

Not the most convincing denial I have ever heard and nothing from the player himself as far as I can see

I cant see where it says hes not coming the hoax could be traveling with Terry

as soon as an unproven overseas player is mentioned it's like a fly round.....

At 23 and at a club who will soon be in desperate need of a goal kicker and a winger at first team level yet they are allowing him to leave speaks volumes.

He is proven, proven to be sub standard.

I apologise for being passionate about this issue but when you spend 5 years trying to help develop young British talent only to see clubs linked with sub standard Australian players like this i get very annoyed indeed.

Understand where you're coming from - but how many of the Wakey side have got to 23 or even beyond before they have hit their straps at Wakey?

In contrast, there are so many who appear so good at a young age and yet drop off without ever sustaing the form needed for the big league.

The only fiar way to judge is to take each case on it's merit and to back your own judgement. IF our club were to sign him - then so be it - however, for the record, I'm told we have not!

I can see jonh’s point of view, fair enough not all imports who make it in SL are household names and not all NRL stars perform well in SL but the fact is the imports places are becoming very limited (which is a good thing) and only the best available should be finding their way over to these shores. There is no point just filling up the overseas spots just for the sake of it.

agree completely in theory but in practice if we need a player to fill a position, we indentify possible replacements of an equivalent standard, one is british and costs so much whilst the other is overseas and costs less, then what do we do as a club? the money saved can be put towards keeping other players such as snitch etc; we dont have the clout of other teams who spend the full cap, we have to take decisions we see fit to benefit our club and no one else, both in the short term and long term