If he’s going down the aisle he has a right to be scared.

Ben Barba purposely played half d to not get injured for his next gig. Im not saying its purely because of his wedding, after the surgery and everything else hes had on his knee the lad is clearly playing with it at the back of his mind. You can't play with fear and if thats what he has then he shouldn't be allowed onto the field. Waste of a shirt.

You say in previous posts that we’ve got the best team in Super League when all fit. We’ve had that team out enough times this year and he’s still failed to shine or take the game by the scruff of the neck.

He’s played behind a decent pack, he’s played behind a pack on top, yet he still fails to deliver. It’s got nothing to do with Friday night, it’s got nothing to do with playing behind Tasi and Akauola, the lad has played close to 100 games for us now and failed to make the desired progress.

It says it all when your best defence of Patton is to bring Briers down and point out others poor performances such as Austin. Like that excuses the constant averageness of Patton.

He’s slow, ponderous and while he’s not the reason we’re losing games, he’s certainly not the reason we’re winning them either.

He’s not a scapegoat. He’s just not very good.

...I'm confident we have the best team in this competition.
However standard of SL is poor.
To be so clear of the rest of SL with all our injuries and indiscipline is strong weight of evidence.

Having a team to win SL and still be poor can happen. Saints in 2014 for example.
I'll take the SL win but it'll be a gift horse of a season considering it's just a 2 horse race.
The players have have tougher reading of social media posters than they have SL opposition....that's the disappointment that we've stank in games this season to a level of 2017.

He made a break on Friday and all I could think is that back in 2016 he’d have gone on to score. It’s sad but something’s missing now, really not the same after his injuries.