George showed real promise at the end of last season. This should have been the year that he kicked on and established himself in Super league, and as an integral part of the Wakefield team but injuries have curtailed that.

It not the lads fault, but he seems to be far too injury prone to ever be more than a bit part squad player in Super league. He’s been injured every season whilst at Wakefield.

As for Blanch, I think that the injuries have caught up with him, he seems as shadow of the player he was a couple of seasons ago. Positionally he seems all at sea, however, that might be down to the defensive structure we play.

surely Manic Miner would be first on the list?

Hope we give King another yearm been an outstanding player this year.
Other than King, who else is awaiting new contracts?

make that 7 released. blanche to catalans. charlie not resigned yet. best prop last year, korkidas. made more yards than any other forward and more tackles . think he was only bettered in tackles by morrison and obst, but king is well worth the brass. if we can keep charlie and i know we have signed wheeldon and purdham , the forwards look ok

King imo was miles better the Korky this year.

I thought Blanch had another season left on his contract??
And (i could be wrong, not 100% sure), didn't Charlie sign until the end of next year?

If JK is intent on playing Moore in the back row as has been reported we will need another front rower.

Eamon O'Carrol at Wigan would be a good shout as with Coley and Fielden signing new contracts, Mossop, Prescott and young Ben Davies all being ahead of him and the impending return of Hock early next year he will be surplus to Wigans requirements.

you are correct blanche does have another year but won't be finishing it . he will be playing for caalans on a 2 year deal. charlie had a 1 year deal but is talking to the club to extend it at the moment.

not saying he wasn't , just telling you the facts. korkidas made nearly double the metres king made and double the tackles. just the facts

Stats dont tell the full story, but even then..... King makes more tackles per game with 20.88 per game and Korky has 18.8. King makes a shed load more positive offloads and a lot less penalties. Oh and less errors.


I'll let you have a point for Korky making more meters, 0.5 more meters per carry.

i like how you use stats per game to back up your argument but break it down to per carry to minimise how far ahead korki is in terms of metres per game.

That was part of my argument to be honest, you can use and twist stats to prove a point but at teh end of the day, stats aside, king has been our best prop.

its all opinion based, fact is we are saying how good king was says how bad our season was.

Totally agreed..

Whats the stats on how long korki spent on his back and how fast his play of the ball was on average??

Which means Parker isn't coming or one of the Quota players is going. Jeffries was the subject of a contract offer from cronulla apparently so maybe it's him who would be the one to make way.

JK has the complete opposite idea. It is some on here who have the idea of Moore playing SR. JK thinks he's best as a prop.

Could it be seven. A snippet in League Weekly today says that John Huxley the media bloke has been binned off as a cost saving measure.

Blanch departure confirmed www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=18999 Someone thinks he is a finisher and has got pace. Good job we didn't send Les Cats the 2010 game dvds.

Blanch departure confirmed www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=18999 Someone thinks he is a finisher and has got pace. Good job we didn't send Les Cats the 2010 game dvds.

I thik this is good news because he has shown himself to be very poor defensivly and i dont think he has been the same player since his bad injuries. Maybe a change of scenery will do him good and i wish him all the best but i think it is a good move by JK and the club to let him go.

This news makes it look for definate that we have signed at least 1 winger, Penny looks like he is nailed on and i think he could be a very good signing. The other winger we have been linked with is Sherriffe and i hope this is not true because he is not good enough. Maybe only signing Penny will be enough because we have George, Morton and also Murphy can play on the wing. If the Parker rumours are true i think he can also play on the wing aswell.

Is he up to it health wise? Dont take it the wrong way but the way his body shape changed after his illness he needs to put a fair amount of bulk back on to have more chance of being effective in the front row I feel.

I thought that Chromes Desease was one of those things that doesnt get 'cured' only controlled, if so are we taking a risk on needing him to be 'bulky' when he appears more suited to the back row? Hopefully its not an issue and he will not be affected, but its out of his control as I understand things.

It's [url=http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/crohns_disease.htmlurlCrohn's Disease[/url btw and can be really nasty; hopefully RM's will be sufficiently well controlled as to enable him to continue to play top flight RL, if that's what he wants.

Hats off to him either way - I know someone who has the disease and is almost completely disabled by it, so to continue to train and be involved in the rigours of SL week in and week out is pretty impressive.

Thanks for the link. It wasn't a dig by the way - respect to the guy living and working with it. Lets hope it is managed enough for him to have an impact for us next year. It always gets tricky though when evaluating a player, similar to the Scully/diabetes situation. When you consider he was a diabetic playing pro RL he was in excellent shape, but compared to his pears he wasn't - if you see what I mean.

Nope - it didn't read at all like a dig; I agree with you - RL is probably the toughest sport in the world and players have to be supremely fit just to compete and avoid getting smashed to bits every week, let alone battling against a debilitating illness.

Wonder if Wakefield will recieve compensation for Blanch ? or are we glad to get rid ?, thats 7 now with no new signings announced yet !. Must say same old same old, lots of players departing and im sure lots of new faces arriving at BV, we will never be a top team when you have so many changes in personnel year in year out im afraid, you have no consitency within the squad, to change pivitol roles at any time is difficult just look how we struggled after Brough,Tronc and Newton left. No wonder there is no queue to get season tickets at BV with half the squad gone, HMRC wanting a chunk of cash and Ted and the board wanting out. The Club has been run as a family concern for too long and not a business, let's hope we can attract a backer who will take WTW to the next level or NL here we come...