Fitness? Character? Composure?

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Quote: Alffi_7 "I was of the same opinion until the Salford game, don't get me wrong Gidley has to be on that field.
Sandow had more kicking responsiblity v Salford and i thought the kicking game was stronger.
I'm coming round to Ratch partnering Sandow and moving Gidley to Fullback.
Sandow is head and shoulders the best kicker of a ball in that team in play.
Matt Russell still drops back as wingers do so we don't even lose the yardage in the early tackles.

Gidley then plays a role similar to how Hodgson played it but we still have the dynamism of Russell in the side.'"

I had similar thoughts myself at the start of the season, however Russell is causing plenty of problems on plays 3 and 4 either jumping in to dummy half, or picking up an offload in centre field. That side of his game would be lost if he was out on the wing, what we would gain of course is a better passing threat at full back, which might bring the wing men in to the game more - just depends which would benefit us more.

I think for now we carry on as we are - its working after all even if we don't seem too fluent. Maybe we could use Ratchford off the bench and spell Westerman with him, using Ratch as that third pivot for 20/30 mins a game?'"

Very good point, his scoots 20-30m from the opponents line have resulted in us scoring crucial tries.

No changes needed apart from Clark coming back in although it is a difficult choice between Ratchford and Dwyer for the hooker interchange. I thought Ratchford did an excellent job on Saturday, much improved from the previous week against Salford.