I think one of the problems with Ratchford is that Smith views him as a utility player. He needs to be somewhere creative like halves ,centre or even loose forward. Anywhere but fullback.

As for Savellio,he is best left where he is. It was for good reasons that Saints shunted him out on loan a good source tells me.

Russell
Lineman
Ratchford
Atkins
New Winger
Gidley
Sandow
Hill
Clark
Cooper
Currie
Hughes
Westerman

No Atkins? He was arguably our best player last night besides Clark and definitely our best attacking centre. I would keep him.

I don't understand what people have against Atkins. He mades the 2016 Dream Team scoring 17 tries this season.

If we could bring in a top, top quality centre I would be prepared to lose Atkins, Penny and Evans to get him. Toby King could be his partner.

Ratchford is one of SL finest players.
I've said it more times than I wish to count.
You must always play him in a position he can get his hands on the ball.
He will play 6 when Gids and Sandow go so why feck him about?!

TS took a decision to play Gids at 6 coz of Ratchford injury. I think balance of the team might have come good had TS put them back into shirt position as soon as he returned. We got a few wins against poorer opposition and everyone thinks the team is right!

Why have we given Ben Harrison a testimonial for 2017 if he's already left?

I have been one of Ryan Atkins biggest supporters and yes for 3/4 of the season he looked back to his best.. But at the business end he has reverted to last years form.
I want to see us play with two centres who can use footwork and create space and also not have a phobia of passing to his winger.. Which Evans has had all season and Atkins has started to develop ..

Not saying he has but note he has not been around the club for a while. And Grix had a testimonial whilst not playing for us so that isn't essential.

Wait and see what happens, I rate him as a player we have missed his bulk in the pack.

If Dodds is staying, you will soon forget Harrison. Don't think people realise how much difference he would have made this year to us. His tackling one on one is awesome and he's pretty handy going forward too. Add him and Cooper in and we wont be far off sorting out the featherweight pack we have worked with all year

Can we honestly depend on the likes of Dodds and / or Harrison though? Two players who have been ravaged by injury on and off for some time now. No room for sentiment or passengers like we went into this season with. Need to hit the ground running with players who are fit and we can depend on.

Dodds injuries to his knees were well documented, however he di finish the NRL season and he GF with Brisbane at the end of 2015. His injury here was a freak break and could have happened to anyone including a player who plays week in week out. He will be fully recovered by now and ready to go for 2017.

That's if he is staying but don't see what choice he has. No nrl team will buy him until he is tested again

Totally agree ...but Currie?

Hardly been ravaged by injury down the years though, has he? Been a regular and quite injury free until this serious knee injury if I remember rightly? The likes of Harrison, Dodds and Wheeler are on another level.