Warrington Wolves • Thomas Mikaele

Mikaele wanted to leave before the season started, KFP convinced him to keep going and we’d try to support him and his family - he did. He then asked to go home again, we asked him to stay with us until McGuire was back - he did. In that time he played fantastically. I think Mikaele was very professional and tried to help us out during a difficult patch injury wise.

If word gets round we don’t allow NRL players to go home if they have issues or they are not happy, we’re not going to get many good players coming over to us from the NRL.

What I would be critical of KFP for is signing someone as quickly as possible and bringing the wrong guy in. We are well on course to finish top 4 and we know better than most that SL titles aren’t won in April.

We wait for the right guy.

Also, had we signed someone average and they had helped us just get over the line against a Wigan side who weren’t great, and a busted Saints side, we would be sitting pretty thinking we were unbeatable. As it is we’ve been shown we need to move up a couple of notches yet - that’s valuable.