Not so baffling. If I recall Ratchford was injured at the beginning of the season, Gidley and Sandow built a relationship and TS didn't want to break it up. I presume that after that he didn't want to start bringing in new players AND swapping positions around.

Russell was fullback for the Widnes friendly. Gidley played stand-off. Another baffling example of forum posters thinking they know better than Tony Smith.

Knowing Smith he would buy a FB n play him at centre.

There's an awful lot of generalisation goes on with regards to players weaknesses, Russell can catch a high ball, he needs to work on doing it consistently. We undoubtedly playedour best rugby this season with him at FB, I don't for one minute think it was purely down to him being at FB but he played an important roll early on which we were able to capitalise on.

For every ball Matty may drop Stephan will lose getting tackled or getting up to play the ball die to his loose one handed carries

Having Russell at FB allows Steph to play either centre or in the halves it gives us a winger on the wing too. Idk West seem to still be trying to find our best team n have been for some seasons now

I may have this wrong, i thought it was Gidley and I could have sworn at some stage in that game Gidley played at full back.
If Russell had started at full back..I must bow to your superior knowledge.

May I ask is the angst towards other posters really necessary ? Or does it just make you feel like a big man/women ?

Don't we all know better than Tony Smith? We cant do anything about it or prove we are right but I think if he tried my team selection it would work better than some of his. I know it cant be proved but in my mind I am right.

Yes you can. Start coaching a team. If you are a better coach than Tony Smith you'll soon work you're way through the ranks.

There is no may about it; you have got it wrong. So feel free to bow to my superior knowledge at your convenience.

As for angst with other posters I save all that for the ginger haired students.

The irony meter had just gone into meltdown.
Someone just spelt out to me it was either one of his facts or the other....but only those otherwise it has no validation.

One thing the forum posters and Tony Smith have got in common is they are both as good at each other in winning SL GF's for Warrington.

I haven't been on this forum much for ages but great to see PY has not lost his touch over the years

The bowing has been done hope you feel better now.. I thought we were all Wire fans here and we were above all the pettiness (wishful thinking I suppose).
Anyway don't think you can intimadate me from behind your keyboard into not using this forum, everyone has a right to speak even if they do make the odd error.

Correct and you are of course the current Wire Yed Prediction Competition Champion so your RL knowledge stands up pretty well

I didn't want to brag pal ha ha

When you apply for your coaching job that allows you full unquestionable opinion on here it better be on your CV!!