Pat has been a very good servant to Wigan and rightly should be applauded for that. However club legend IMO he is not. Charnley is a far better winger that Pat is or ever was. Pat is an experienced pro who is obviously a good influence behind the scenes. Give him a good sent off, absolutely but some of this is a little OTT.

we have had so many good players its always difficult when it comes to rating them. eg when Inga was playing for us, he was sensational. One of the outstanding players of his time, yet now he appears to have been forgotten.
I am sure that I could find similar players who are as good as pat but because they are slightly older they are easily forgotten.

Pat is good player, but not a legend. he's just been a very good player in a decade of mediocrity for the Club as a whole.

Blimey, like other teams believe, seems that RL only started in 1996!!!!

Every generation has its memorable players, My kids don't remember Wigan without Pat Richards, they will remember him as superman & he deserves it.

thats harder to do that be a good player in a good team.

I remember the Ganley sidestep, he could read Billy like a book. Billy went one way Ganley went the other.

But the best example of Billy being one on one with a fullback was in a cup match at Hunslet when he faced Langton.

In the first half Billy trundled down the middle after receiving one of the Ashton back passes , he came up to Langton and Billy sidestepped to the right and Langton guessed right and brought Billy down. Much backslapping and rejoicing from the Hunslet players.

Ten min after the same thing happened, Billy off down the middle again with Langton waiting with a confidant look on his face.
Billy must have said "sod the sidestep" and he ran right over the top of Langton to put the ball down under the sticks..

Hunslet in those days where a force to be reckoned with.