Re: Ben Harrison signed on loan to end of season : Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:42 pm  

Last season they had a player coming in hence they had to reduce their official wage bill, this time they do not. I don't understand what either club have to benefit from the arrangement and therefore why would you extrapolate that it means Warrington will owe us. He is either fit and can play albeit this is questionable considering he had not done so since last September because there is no other reason for this deal. I guess time will tell if we see him in the red, white and blue but one thing for certain we will not next season.

Re: Ben Harrison signed on loan to end of season : Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:52 am  

bren2k wrote:

That's how I see it - MC has a good relationship with TS, so you'd have to see this as some kind of mutual arrangement; maybe they need to get Harrison off the cap for the rest of the year or somesuch, so we're Wire's hospital club again, in return for a favourable deal on Atkins/Cox or a.n other.

There could definitely be some logic behind what's been said. Conversely though from a n other fans point of view, I'd have liked an extra body at Prop, especially with England out (our most consistent Prop) and Annakin out for the season, along with Simon and also then add Johnstone. Although I'm not too sure how long Simon and Johnstone are out for. We also all still live in hope that Finn and Miller aren't gonna cop an injury at some point as well.

That is of course if MC and CC have weighted it all up & are happy with what we've done this year and feel no need for any extra bodies/expense at this point. They must think going into the Semi, which is our main objective, we can field a strong enough side( except for those we know are definitely out) to do the job. Part of a save cash this year, now we're safe and invest next year to improve the squad type thing. Who knows hey.

Re: Ben Harrison signed on loan to end of season : Sun Jul 24, 2016 6:58 am  

Looks like there wasn't anybody good enough available, for whatever reason, so we're saving the cash rather than pandering to a few fans by signing a dud on full pay. The arrival of Lisa Dingle is purely a favour to Wire to help get him fit. He may figure in some of the later games against the rest of the top 4, one way of assisting Wire's push for the title.

Re: Ben Harrison signed on loan to end of season : Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:14 am  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

Last season they had a player coming in hence they had to reduce their official wage bill, this time they do not. I don't understand what either club have to benefit from the arrangement and therefore why would you extrapolate that it means Warrington will owe us. He is either fit and can play albeit this is questionable considering he had not done so since last September because there is no other reason for this deal. I guess time will tell if we see him in the red, white and blue but one thing for certain we will not next season.

How are you privy to the internal machinations at Wire, as well as WT?

The tone of your post suggests that you believe this to be a duff arrangement - whereas most sensible people would agree that neither MC or TS are idiots; so TS wouldn't come up with a complex arrangement for Harrison without good reason, and MC wouldn't allow his club to be used and abused by Wire, unless there was mutual benefit.

Which is most likely - everyone involved is less intelligent than you, or there's something agreed that we won't be party to until it actually materialises?

Re: Ben Harrison signed on loan to end of season : Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:17 am  

It could even be a try before you buy deal similar to Ormsby at Huddersfield?

Re: Ben Harrison signed on loan to end of season : Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:47 am  

Wire Yed wrote:

It could even be a try before you buy deal similar to Ormsby at Huddersfield?

Possibly although I cant see Harrison (a popular player) letting his testimonial go - at a small club like ours they are not that lucrative but at a big club they are well worth it.

Re: Ben Harrison signed on loan to end of season : Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:10 am  

It's the Wakefield sea air in order to aid recovery.

Re: Ben Harrison signed on loan to end of season : Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:54 pm  

Well today showed we need a fit and able prop at this moment due to some being injured and short of props today as it told in that second half and what we had did big stints