I have said many times, good player does not necessarily mean good coach. The best coaches in the League right now went away and did the hard graft, rather than waltz into the job off the back of past glories.

The Briers experiment has been, on the whole, a huge let down.

We lack flair, off the cuff play and 40/20s, things Briers excelled in, with a jersey on. We look rigid, and not very easy on the eye. A HUGE amount of blame lays at the feet of Briers.
Let's look at Patton. He should be blossoming under Briers tutelage. Instead, there are missing persons announcements for him, come game time. The lad isn't improving. He's not an upgrade on O'brien, and that's not difficult.

As karetaker and Ganson's allude to. Briers is more than culpable for our woes. A good player doesn't mean a good coach. England 66, anyone?

Well, there are two possibilities. One, Briers was a fantastic player but has been unable to translate that into coaching acumen and teach the likes of Patton the intricacies of attacking half back play.

Or two, the likes of Patton just aint good enough no matter who teaches them.

Ellery Hanley broke the incredible player / excellent coach conundrum and he's out of a job at the moment. If we recruit him will he turn us into 17 clones of him? If so, someone pick up the phone quick.

Or a third.....
It could be coached out of them?

Well again we don't actually know the coaching structure at the club in terms of who gets to do what, (or not) and who is pulling the strings etc.

Perhaps its something someone could ask at one of these "fan" nights?

Or fourth, he's a good half, playing in a rubbish team

Atm Agar is pulling the strings.

Please, come now, let's allow a little dispassionate truth to shed some light. Where is the slightest hint of evidence that Declan is a good half, is going to be a very good half and merits the time, patience and understanding that his colleagues do not? Tell me, cite some examples.

Unpalatable it may be, certainly unpopular, but the truth is that Ratchford, Brown & Gidley have all individually provided more moments of class, skill and game-breaking acumen than Patton has over the course of the season. None of our halves need to press their tuxs for the RFL awards this year, but Patton has been the worst.

At 23, he has been coached by one of Britain's best halves, played alongside an Australian international, another aussie of mercurial, X-factor genius and a couple of international playmakers, and he appears to have learnt very little.

Nice to see the Guardian calling Saturday and the season as a whole abysmal

Patton will make a very decent half back...in the championship....lower half of the championship. Sorry, i know he's a warrington lad and all that but simply not good enough for upper super league ambitions and never will be.

Well this meeting on Thursday, Agar delivering a video analysis session and Fitzpatrick is in attendance. I'm wondering if the video is going to The three stooges go to market. I know they like to hold back important information till it suits them but they seriously going to have to throw some crumbs out there.