I'm happy with the Patton signing. He has played well as interchange hooker, Price clearly rates him (and he is far more skilled, and in a better position , to judge than I am) and demand is far out stripping supply in the halfback market.

Quote: Uncle Rico "Predictive text ......AGGGHHHH won't somebody think of the children!!'" Reminds me of a sketch I saw once https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV8icF5Ak04

Quote: Uncle Rico "Predictive text ......AGGGHHHH won't somebody think of the children!!'" Reminds me of a sketch I saw once https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV8icF5Ak04

Contracts don’t really mean a great deal. Sometimes a player will sign a new contract in good faith with the club even though both know the player will be moving on, but the club can ask for more of a transfer fee when selling him when he’s on a higher contract.

But it will be good if this isn’t one of those situations and Patton does stay, I’ve been impressed with him at hooker.

Och min gerr a grip, It's nae "am goin tae the shop" it's am awa doon the shop

Anyway he can be a very good player at 9 as seen so far.

He has been adding value over the last few months. No problen with this renewal.

Funnily enough, I don't really know if it is the change of position that has made a difference. If he could be as direct, quick, and as much of a handful while playig 6 or 7, he would be a very good 6 or 7. I just think it is good coaching and good motivation that has got him playing a more forceful game than we saw in 2017.

I’d like to see him have a run of games at 6 or 7 now before judging whether he has a future at half back. We have a pack that is going forward and we actually have an attacking structure in place now, and slowly we have gotten more used to it. Bit unfair to judge Pattons performances when the game plan and structure were - run the ball from dummy half then chuck the ball out wide, something will come up.

...what you talking about Dex for?

Back to his usual self tonight replacing Brown.

Mark this down as another game we lose with him playing the halves.

We've scored six tries in a game and I've now seen two posts suggesting it was because of the half-backs that we lost. Nope, it was because of crap defending.

Yes and a fair amount of that crap defending came from one of said half backs and not for the first time either.

He's played 4 games in the halves this season.
We've lost 3 of them. We've only lost 6 games.all season.

3 losses from 4 games plus a red card and a 5 match ban. That's Patten's return from halfback.

This!

His agent did a great job on us saying Wigan were after him! Two years.....oh the joys!

.....and we've given him a two year contract, on the back of this!

Once upon a time, an elderly lady had a particulaly nasty fall outside Central Station. I sprinted into the middle of the road, into incoming traffic, picked her up, and escorted her to the side of the road. I just about managed to catch my train on time.
It's the Queen's Birthday Honours, next week. Where's my gong?