Exactly - he was not great at halfback even when a spritely young man nevermind 37. Baffling.

I think we are the only team in SL that would have him playing 7.

Honestly I think something is off about this. As far as I’m aware Leyland had done nothing wrong in the preseason games, also not buying that he is still learning the systems. Going off the Giants game most the team are still learning they systems and Williams had not even picked up the book

Dufty
Thewlis
Lindop
King
Ashton
Williams
Ratchford
Vaughan
Walker
Yates
Holroyd
Russell
Currie

Powell
Philbin
Crowther/Musgrove (more than likely his boyfriend Musgrove)
Fitzgibbon

totally baffled why Ratchford is being picked ahead of Leyland. There must be something in this that we aren't seeing/aware of!

We need Oracle Abe.

Think he is currently on the naughty step.

Be interesting to see how Leyland is used throughout the year. My guess is that he'll get his chance & show what he can do.
If not we'll be making an offer to get Drinkwater back as he was always seen as a better half back option than Steph.

So far ,i haven't seen Leyland do anything wrong ,unless Sam sees Ratchford as a steadier pair of hands.

I can only assume Leyland has done something behind the scenes to off Burgess, there's no rational explanation.

After reading through this thread I had to remind myself that we had actually won on Sunday and that Ratchford had a reasonable game ... Nothing too flashy but solid throughout the 80 mins,much like every other player ... So why should he be dropped this week ??

I think it’s more a case of challenging Leyland to go and take the shirt off someone. It was meant to be Hayes with Leyland in pursuit, now he’s got a slow moving target, but he obviously isn’t doing enough to force Sam to put his trust in him.

But, the one positive from this is the absolute iron confidence in Hayes. Sam has said publicly, as has Chambers, that he is the plan. It’s so un-Warrington like. We’re not sniffing around an aging superstar, not keeping the door open for Sneyd, it’s Hayes.

The job now is to persuade the terrace to be patient. He won’t be polished or the finished article, but we all have to take a breath when things go wrong, because if we do we might just drop lucky.

I guess it's all opinions. I cant remember him excelling in the halves in his career, he's 37 and we are spending cap on a backup half. He's a stop gap fix, not a strategic forward looking selection. It reminds me of something Price would have done and is total opposite of "next man up".