I have and did. He's far too slow to get into position, he bends down like an old man, he offers no threat as a runner, he does not draw defenders before passing to runners. He passes the ball better than Higham but who does not? He is only playing half the game at best so he should be putting everything into that 40 minutes.

Brad Drew gave Riddel a lesson in how to play hooker in the first game, Shaun Berrigan and Ryan Hudson both outplayed him. Chad Randall dished out another beating. This is a player supposed to be at the peak of his career and yet what has he done for Wigan thus far? The longer he stayed at Parramatta the worse Parramatta became.

People talk about time. Even now Roberts is showing hints of class. Smith even had some great touches at Hull. Sadly his defence negates any good he can do. Riddel at the moment is down with Mark Reber.

Are you also going to tell me that Riddell didn't pass to the Invisible Man on at least two occasions?

has riddell píssed on your kids or something? he's played 4 games for the club, 4 games with injurys! Cut him some slack for gods sake. Hes not even playing that bad either!

Mick it's fine - Warrington will eventually win soon.

Well said

The problem for the "Eddie and Stevo" generation is that they judge a performance on the one off instances of good play, eg. Micky Higham scoots 20 yards and is praised thus the Eddie and Steveo brigade follow, he knocks on, gives penalties away and generally fails to deliver quality ball to the half back which isn't mentioned in commentary and is thus deemed never to have taken place.

Riddell will probably never scoot the way that Higham does thus failing to catch the eye as much, but what he will do is do the basics well and generally have much more of a positive impact on the way that the team plays much of which will go unnoticed to the "Sky generation".

Sorry but if you read my posts you would realise I am not somebody who could be accused of being pro Higham. What seems to be happening is that if you criticise Riddel the reply of the intellectually challenged is to accuse you of being a Higham devotee. Sad.

I was stunned by this on friday. Mick gave away 2 penalties which caused wire to go 12 points down, not a word, he did 1 scoot and they cream themselves, i sometimes wonder if people take there word as gospel.

Higham had a shocker vs Trinity yet still they praised him to the heavens.

The fact is Riddell has been poor but improved every game, for those comparing him with Higham the only thing they have in commonn is the number on there back, 2 different style players. Higham was average at best generally for Wigan, in 3 seasons, Riddell has been average at best in 4 games but improved every game, those who have seen him play pre Wigan know how good he is, those who have not do not and perhaps that is why they are worried.

I am not interested in Higham. Currently, McIlorum and Leuluai offer a better combination at 9 than Riddel and another hooker.

To be honest i think you may be right at this moment in time, but the only way Riddell is going to get better is by playing games at SL level and when he does find his feet he will be by far the best hooker at the club. If he is injured then i think he should be rested but if it is a match fitness issue he needs to play. If he is injured and Noble is playing him regardless and not McIllorum then another black mark against him.

Its always the same with them two on sky they will always have there sweethearts.

The pass Ainscough did for carmonts try was mentioned once maybe twice by Stevo..If it was one of his cherished like Gidley he would have been creaming himself a good 10 minutes after.

and if it was micky higham well i dread to think what the commentary box would look like