Quote: rubber duckie "If you cast your mind back, when Atkins arrived, he was winger to King. He carried the number 23 to represent winger/centre I believe.'" Has always been at centre . Its King who was on the wing. www.rugbyleagueproject.org/match ... 0tLS0tLQ==

Quote: rubber duckie "If you cast your mind back, when Atkins arrived, he was winger to King. He carried the number 23 to represent winger/centre I believe.'" Has always been at centre . Its King who was on the wing. www.rugbyleagueproject.org/match ... 0tLS0tLQ==

No I think that we acknowledge his abilities and he is a good player, however not worth shuffling people around to fit him in to the team. He is a luxury player who's wages could be utilised better. Let's not forget for every good game he has he has am anonymous one also and is prone to too many dropped balls because he refuses to carry the ball properly/securely.

In a realistic world (What I think the club could achieve/buy), I'd have:

Gidley
Lineham
T. King
Watkins
Solomona

Patton
Sandow

Hill
Clark
Cooper
Wilde/Jullien (Currie when back from injury obviously)
Hughes
Westerman

Smith/Dwyer
Sims
Crosby
Savelio

Is it not a forum for discussion?

No question about it.

Wigan have "Pacific"
Saints have "Saddened"
I wonder who we have?

I only post on here if your referring to me. Once again your starting to cause shat again.
Why can't you just let it go? It'll make you ill.

For once you are right

Gidley Lineham Watkins Atkins Solomona Patton / Ratchford Sandow Hill Clark Cooper Hughes (Currie when back from injury obviously) Sims / Hughes Westerman Ratchford / Patton Westwood Crosby Tough NRL forward with excellent injury record Someone like Luke Douglas www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/37497014

Gidley Lineham Watkins Atkins Solomona Patton / Ratchford Sandow Hill Clark Cooper Hughes (Currie when back from injury obviously) Sims / Hughes Westerman Ratchford / Patton Westwood Crosby Tough NRL forward with excellent injury record Someone like Luke Douglas www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/37497014

I wasn't only responding to the Ratchford part but seeing as you asked

"No" "shuffling people around to accommodate him" surely the opposite is true? Russell as a returning FB works if he can make a catch and he can't so we put him out wide. Gidley could play FB but is needed in the middle where we are light. There are shouts for a bench spot so he can spell Clark or get him to put a few pounds on play him as a ball handling 13.

Yes all of this is Ratchford's fault I agree he should stop the one handed stuff but I wish he'd bugger off right now.............back to stand off, or centre would be my ideal IF we had a FB. Johnson might make it, we may buy one, we could have tried a switch with Evans or built Russell's confidence up under a bomb.

I really don't get the lack of respect for Ratchford. The team hasn't been shuffled to accommodate him, it's been the other way round. He should be 6 and Gidley at 1. Being at fab would possibly give Gidley a bit of extra thinking time which would benefit his "game management.
I like Russell and his metre making from full back but there is more to that position now (eg who would you rather defended a high kick at full back?).
I do think Rhys Evans is limited at centre and a specialist winger is also required assuming TS is about to bin Penny off (which is a crying shame ).

Why is Evans limited at centre ? If Warrington more often than not attack to the left, it's going to be hard for him to score playing on the opposite side. He reads the game very well and puts in big defensive efforts. Games are won on defence.

He is limited because he doesn't know what to do with the ball in an attacking position and that is a core skill for a centre, if we can't attack we can't score, it's scoring more than your opponents that actually wins games.

We have off loaded one of the king brothers. And the other one isnt much better