: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:11 pm  

Wakefield No 1 wrote: http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/wolves/wolvesnews/4586229.Wolves_are_Atkins__number_one/?ref=rss Why would a West Yorkshire lad (from Leeds?) who started at Bradford and got his big break at Wakefield want to play for Wire more than his home town side, or St Helens or possibly Wigan? Answers on a postcard please, or you could email to: ryan@gonewherethemostmoneyisandtoldthel ... tohear.com

Wakefield No 1 wrote: http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/wolves/wolvesnews/4586229.Wolves_are_Atkins__number_one/?ref=rss Why would a West Yorkshire lad (from Leeds?) who started at Bradford and got his big break at Wakefield want to play for Wire more than his home town side, or St Helens or possibly Wigan? Answers on a postcard please, or you could email to: ryan@gonewherethemostmoneyisandtoldthel ... tohear.com

: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:20 pm  

you forgot to add 'andwherethecoachisthegbcoach' from the end of that address.

: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:25 pm  

Haywire wrote: Why would a West Yorkshire lad (from Leeds?) who started at Bradford and got his big break at Wakefield want to play for Wire more than his home town side, or St Helens or possibly Wigan? Answers on a postcard please, or you could email to: ryan@gonewherethemostmoneyisandtoldthel ... tohear.com How can he go where the money is when he only had one offer on the table..So it chalks that one off. It will be more to do with Tony Smith than anything else

Haywire wrote: Why would a West Yorkshire lad (from Leeds?) who started at Bradford and got his big break at Wakefield want to play for Wire more than his home town side, or St Helens or possibly Wigan? Answers on a postcard please, or you could email to: ryan@gonewherethemostmoneyisandtoldthel ... tohear.com How can he go where the money is when he only had one offer on the table..So it chalks that one off. It will be more to do with Tony Smith than anything else

Ryan Atkins : Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:33 pm  

I quite agree that Ryan has been excellent for us & if Tony Smith can teach him how to pass to his winger,THEN he will reach his true pottential & be a world class centre like Kieth Senior.Good luck to him & thanks for all his effort.

: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:41 pm  

adam9641 wrote:

How can he go where the money is when he only had one offer on the table..So it chalks that one off. It will be more to do with Tony Smith than anything else

I have lost count over the past few months (maybe even years) that you have claimed to know how Leeds et al have been sniffing round him but the deal, for whatever reason, has not come off.

: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:43 pm  

Haywire wrote:

I have lost count over the past few months (maybe even years) that you have claimed to know how Leeds et al have been sniffing round him but the deal, for whatever reason, has not come off.

They have been after him, but they can not speak to the player unless the club say they can. Leeds did not have an offer accepted but Warrington did. So he can't go where the money is.

: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:44 pm  

adam9641 wrote:

They have been after him, but they can not speak to the player unless the club say they can. Leeds did not have an offer accepted but Warrington did. So he can't go where the money is.

And you really believe that in the real world clubs follow the official procedure and protocol?

: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:46 pm  

Haywire wrote:

And you really believe that in the real world clubs follow the official procedure and protocol?

And you really think there is any use in talking to a club when an offer has not been accepted? He had one deal on the table was the only one he could sign.

: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:50 pm  

I think it's fair to say that 'if' there had been equal pay on the table from Leeds and Wire then Mr Atkins would be singing a different tune but then that is how it is in professional sport.

: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:54 pm  

J.T wrote:

I think it's fair to say that 'if' there had been equal pay on the table from Leeds and Wire then Mr Atkins would be singing a different tune but then that is how it is in professional sport.

Before I would have said Leeds he would have gone for but I think Tony Smith would have persuaded him otherwise had he had the choice between Wire and Leeds.