Ratchford is not a match winning player....hes a good player, but not a man who can turn a game instantly players like barba, slater, tomkins are match winners, for me you either start him or dont play him, i feel its a waste of a sub playing 15 minutes...

Well, at least that's sorted. Tony Smith will be working a months notice and then you can take over as coach.

Agreed.

To be fair though, this thread has been mostly about how much we all rate Evans. Only three posters (Fearnhead Cross, Spaggy, Sir David Beckham) seemed to be seriously questioning him and the latter then admitted he or she had been harsh. So that leaves two posters. You'll always get a minority making ill-judged, quick opinions.

In my defence, when I said he couldn't catch a cold I was referring to Richards pace (lack of), for a winger. Specifically, that he has all the speed of a 60 year-old Lower Angel regular at 11PM having imbibed most of the cellar.

If you want a winger who can jump and kick goals though, he's the man.

Ben Westwood not handling Farrell was the biggest issue down that side. Farrell ran him ragged. Bennie will fix himself up for next time i'm sure but I think Farrell spent large periods of the game making Bennie look like a mug.

Really? I don't recall that and whilst I know stats don't tell the whole story, the following seem to disagree with what you are saying:

Farrell: 41 tackles, 1 Tackle Bust, 14 carries for 66m, 1 Clean Break, 0 offloads, 2 pens conceded.
Westwood: 21 tackles, 0 Tackle Bust, 23 carries for 147m, 0 Clean Break, 3 offloads, 1 pens conceded

Those figures suggest 1 player was being run ragged in defence whilst the other was coming out as the most effective attacking player in the match. i.e. the opposite to what you were suggesting.

That does suggest the complete opposite to what I said. I had a conversation with a Wigan fan friend of mine and he was saying Farrell was going to be the pack leader and was more than up to the job. I laughed at the idea. I watched him pretty closely on Friday as a result, I thought he was a constant thorn in our side and whenever he and Bennie met, Farrell seemed to come out on top. I spoke to my neutral colleage and he agreed Farrell seemed to have the beating of Bennie. They also ran through us twice at that left second row channel to score tries. Maybe I am being a little harsh on Bennie because I wanted to see him put Farrell in his place and that just didn't seem to happen.