What evidence do you have that he can play fullback ? Not the odd game once in a blue moon to cover for injuries like a lot of teams do with various players, where is the evidence that Ratchford is a competent fullback ?

If he had obvious potential as a fullback then why would Salford have signed Luke Patten and wasted a quota spot in the process ?

Who's ever said that's what he is being brought in for though? Surely he's just a Matt King replacement?

Matt King's replacement will probably be Chris Bridge, if not him then Joel Monaghan will move into the right centre with one of the youngsters on the wing.

The only evidence I have that he can play Fullback is the fact that he has played Fullback. He's only a young player Rob, I'm hardly likely to be able to point to 100 games where he has played there. Experience isn't necessarily a bar to entry - how many games had Lockyer played at 6 before Bennett moved him there.

I don't know why Salford recruited Luke Patten to play Fullback. Presumably because he is an experienced Australian player and they thought he could bring something to the team.

If the plan is to play him at Fullback then I suspect the person we really need to ask is Tony Smith. Suspect he might be able to explain.

He's not a winger though.

Welcome to the Wire, Ratch! Yeah, I'm already going to simplify his surname.

Look, i've read through some posts on here whereby somebody for one reason or another isn't excited at the prospect of him playing for us. But Ratchford has bags and bags of potential. Trust me. He's shown at Salford how good he can be and he is a loss to them no matter what they think.

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confirmed.


new coach isnt too pleased that we took myler now ratchford. diddums.

Aww shame. They've had Wainwright, Neal, Vinnie, Parker, Barnett etc off us.

Err.. Parish = Dick. What "isn't right"? If you want to keep your best players, perhaps don't leave it until mid season of the last year of the contract to start negotiating when other clubs are allowed to approach them. Not ing hard.

He's only been in the job for a week, and he's allready proving to be a bigger Berk than McRae ever could be(and that takes some doing)

Has nobody told him about the £200k (?) for Myler, we didn't exactly 'take him', they did that to Widnes when they were on the ropes. We paid our way.

The hunter can quickly become the hunted.

We're the Wire, we'll sign who we want.

A wigan lad as well. Fancy choosing us over them. Ouch!

Quote: Rob Wire "JWP Whose playing fullback at the min in the under 20's ? How far away off a first team run out would you say they are ? Ben Helliwell looked class at fullback for the Bulls in a couple of clips ive watched, suprised we have him on the wing. As for Ratchford, its one of them where time will tell if its a good signing or not. I hope he turns out to be the next Brent Webb and some of us are left eating our words. Whats this link up with Salford we seem to have in recent years, they have took Mike Wainwright, Ian Sibbit, Richie Barnett Jnr, Rob Parker and Vinnie Anderson off us, we have brought in Richie Myler, Steffan Ratchford and Karl Fitzpatrick.'" A salford fan likes him at fullback. viewtopic.php?f=20&t=501956&start=45

Quote: Rob Wire "JWP Whose playing fullback at the min in the under 20's ? How far away off a first team run out would you say they are ? Ben Helliwell looked class at fullback for the Bulls in a couple of clips ive watched, suprised we have him on the wing. As for Ratchford, its one of them where time will tell if its a good signing or not. I hope he turns out to be the next Brent Webb and some of us are left eating our words. Whats this link up with Salford we seem to have in recent years, they have took Mike Wainwright, Ian Sibbit, Richie Barnett Jnr, Rob Parker and Vinnie Anderson off us, we have brought in Richie Myler, Steffan Ratchford and Karl Fitzpatrick.'" A salford fan likes him at fullback. viewtopic.php?f=20&t=501956&start=45