When we signed Ryan Atkins i was pretty bullish that we had signed someone with massive potential who would improve even further under Tony Smith, you can't really judge someone in their first season as its a new club and new team mates, he rounded off last year with a top performance at wembley and i was looking forward to seeing him carry on that kind of form this year.

From the games ive seen this season you would have to say that overall he's been a bit dissapointing, he's far too quiet and doesn't get involved enough, also his decision making can be a bit iffy where he quite often seems to take a lot of wrong options.

He's a frustrating type of player given all the atributes he has like pace, power, size and when he's on his game he's a very elusive runner. Maybe he's saving his best for the end of the season, i hope so as we need a lot more from him.

He has no rugby brain..... he is an athlete who runs hard, tackles hard and is fairly quick.

Every time there is a good pass on, he cuts inside looks to break a tackle, doesn't and we lose an opportunity, the player that is frustrating me the most lately, but he does have good potential and sometimes he chooses to share it with us.

I could not believe how much pace he has tbh. Charnley is no slouch, but Atkins very nearly caught him for the full length try.

rubbish, he drew charnley across for king's first and often does very well. He's having a bad patch of games at the minute but still tries.

atkins would be better suited to second row imo

He has been playing well last few weeks just when he has a bad day the strong running doesn't seem to be there. Needs to feed his winger more thats all for me.

Im the opposite on Atkins, when he joined us I thought he was overrated at Wakefield and was not worth signing, and would be a poor replacement for Gleeson. But I have thought that with us he has been very good, he is a very dangerous player, yes not the finished article, but surely you want a bit of raw talent to get excited about, he's got pace and raw power.

Been fine for us. Two great passes on saturday, runs in and tackles hard. Don't see where the problem is.

No problem for me.

Has many great games, a few average ones, and the odd poor one....don't most good players?...

Oh hang on....
guess who's leaving at the end of the season
Don't forget, some "fans" HAVE to have a scapegoat to vent their spleens on, Atkins could be their man

N.B. Not accusing RobWire as one of these

This.

I don't see what the problem is. Him and King's wing has been devestating at times this year. He'll run in hard, tackles strong, and is a good centre. Of course he might not pass the ball on a couple occasions when he's supposed too, but every centre is guilty for that sometimes.

He's been good for us this year.

Lot of pace and power like Joel Tomkins but in my opinion neither are centres and never will be. Great athletes dont always make great rugby players; I agree with one of the above posters, i think he'd go well in the 2nd row if he got a chance.