Patton wasn't the reason we got beat tonight.
It's easy to point a finger at the kid who make the reckless tackle over his partner that wouldn't even put himself in a position to try a make that tackle.

Swinton were a big club once upon a time. It doesn’t mean anything though. Plus you usually know a club isn’t as big as it’s fans think it is when it has supporters telling supporters of another club who’ve won exactly the same major trophy count as them (11 each) that they’re a bigger club than them.

To be fair to King, he did what Atkins has been slagged off for and got the ball out to his winger who should have scored to level it up.

While King wasn’t good, he wasn’t to blame. We had 2 half backs on who I could honestly say I can’t remember causing and damage in attack. Ratchford looked twice the player of both of them, and we know how good a half he is.

Stupid penalties cost us, BMM seems to give away the same ones routinely, I’d consider putting him back on the bench for shorter impacts as he was largely ineffective.

Cooper and Clark went well, Hill was a good prop but an awful captain display again, too busy having a clock measuring competition than trying to help the team get on track

So that's it then pop pickers, the nominations for this year's official scapegoat are as follows:

1. Toby King
2. Tyrone Roberts
3. Dec Patten

And dropping out of the top three for the first time in over 3 years we have:

4. Matty Russel
5. Mike Wainwright.

Amidst all the understandable negativity I'll say well done to Dom Crosby and Joe Philbin who both looked pretty impressive from the bench. Crosby could go on to have a very good season.

Agreed, I'd add Cooper to that as well. When hill just does the prop job and sita gets a bit fitter we'll have a great pack this season, so long as we can keep them all fit of course.

Very interesting that it took a sending off to get the team to start playing rugby ,when they could have done so for the first 50 minutes , instead of making the game hard for themselves by losing ground with indiscipline & poor handling. I can't fault the defensive effort & i have seen worse fouls go unpunished than Patton was sent off for.
No good slagging some individuals off because we are stuck with them in what is turning out to be quite a threadbare squad. Replacing any players will not be easy & hopefully the coaches can improve the individuals concerned.

I dont know how much to take from the mini revival when we went a man down. In those circumstances the ref will normally give every decision to the team with 12, and the opposition team mentally switches off.

We aren't going to do anything unless there is a significant improvement in our halves.

5 drives and a poor kick isn't going to cut it.

What happened to Goodwin? I was out and didn't see the game, heard he went off

He got a bang on his knee. Agrivated the same knee that he had injured against Wigan.

Indeed!

Can somebody have a word with Chris Hill and tell him he’s the club captain, not the mouthpiece for winding everyone up, constantly moaning at the ref, continuously lying in/hands on the ball...

He needs to have w bit more class about him. He’s starting to do my head in.

if you take your anti fc specs off you may see the game in a better light fc were good in the first half and warrington were good when down to 12 men . by the way well done to the wire away support It can not of been easy with weather and road conditions