Re: Dual reg with Wakey : Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:41 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

Does it work two ways? If we ended up having a massive injury crisis, could we call on Thornley?

Wondered that myself and I think you potentially could. I remember Leeds during their link up with Fev getting Luke Briscoe.

Re: Dual reg with Wakey : Thu Nov 09, 2023 2:30 pm  

With all due respect to Thornley it would have to be one hell of an injury crisis if we needed him back at the club.

Re: Dual reg with Wakey : Thu Nov 09, 2023 2:50 pm  

jonh wrote:

With all due respect to Thornley it would have to be one hell of an injury crisis if we needed him back at the club.

And he wasn't also injured himself.

Re: Dual reg with Wakey : Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:24 pm  

Dual reg ended, Wakey saying their squad is more than big enough so ended by mutual consent

Re: Dual reg with Wakey : Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:11 pm  

Can't say I'm massively surprised with this given the relationship between Powell and Wigan. I also can't imagine that agreeing to loan Eseh to Castleford would've helped either.

Re: Dual reg with Wakey : Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:37 pm  

Stu M wrote:

Can't say I'm massively surprised with this given the relationship between Powell and Wigan. I also can't imagine that agreeing to loan Eseh to Castleford would've helped either.

I don’t think there is any bad blood at all. Wigan will have wanted players out on loan and the reality is Wakefield don’t need them.

Trinity have really good squad depth and are winning each week without getting out of third gear and even when they have injuries they can cover them with their own squad players so it’s a pointless agreement that benefits neither Wigan or Trinity.

Wigan will want to get the likes of Eckersley, Forber and Douglas out on loan Trinity don’t need them.

Makes sense for everyone that it ends and Wigan use Barrow who will need them.

The Eseh situation won’t have had any effect at all, again he’s not a player Trinity would need unless they loose maybe 4 possibly 5 props to injury at the same time and there is no way Trinity would want him to come in and take game time away from Vagana, Uele and Rodwell who are all young and being developed as SL players for 2025.

As I understand it relationships between the 2 clubs are still very positive.

Re: Dual reg with Wakey : Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:38 pm  

It seemed a strange one at the time of the announcement, with Wakey investing heavily in their squad. A dual reg agreement with a club likely to only need any of your players in an injury crisis always had a chance of being ended early. The partnership with Barrow makes far more sense. You’d think that straight away they’d be happy to get guys like Eckersley and Hampshire in the squad if possible, on top of arrangements already in place for Forber and Beardsworth.