Well done on your post where everything is wrong. He was a Millward signing and also the reason he was playing in the centre's was due to Dallas and Calderwood already being our two wingers.

I'd go as far as saying he won the game for you today, could of been very different without him.

Sensational.

Well if it was that blows away the idea Mo signed all the players!

An interesting notion?

Whatever, Millward may have signed him but it took Noble to get him playing right.

Dave

It doesn't matter who the wingers were, Millward decided to play him at centre and it was a mistake. Who was it who picked Pat at centre? (It was Millward).

Who was it who picked Pat on the wing when Dallas was still at the club? (It was Noble even though Dallas was fit after injury for several games before his final couple of appearances - he was keeping Dallas out).

Fact of the matter is Noble recognised Richards as a winger, never a centre and played him on the wing and in so doing saved his Wigan career IMO.

Since playing on the wing he has gone on to be a great player for us.

Dave

When he first signed for us if we didnt have Calderwood and Dallas he would of played on the wing, however next available spot was centre and your not going to leave Richards out. When Noble arrived it was injuries to Calderwood and Dallas that seen Richards get his chance on the wing.

That is what I meant. He is not a centre and never was.



Signing a winger and putting him in the centres seems an odd idea to me. We as a club did it a couple of times including Richards and it didn't work. I think Jamie Ainscough (or what it Mark Bell?) was signed as such? Richards was actually signed to play centre as well . It was in the press at the time and the news from the club and Richards was quoted he was looking forward to it.

If it was because we had Dallas (in his last year with us) and Calders it doesn't let Millward off the hook IMO. A mistake to play him there IMO.

Dave

Not so IMO. He was signed to play centre. Do a search and see if you can find any news items of the time and I am sure you will see he was signed to switch to be a centre.



Dallas getting injured did let Richards have a run on the wing and it was like watching a different player. I asked the question at the time was there a way back for Dallas given the way Richards went (and I was one of Dallas biggest fans). It really was almost the second coming seeing Richards used properly.

Dave

Ok I will have a look at him being signed to play centre, but all I was getting at was it was Millward who brought him here. What other signings did Millward make in his time here apart from the rubbish ones?

Logan?
Fletcher?
Barrett?
Feka?

I am pretty sure Barrett signed in 2007. Other than that I think those are all Millward era players and I was a big fan of Logan but I think Fletcher was here already (not sure).

Logan was another player who got a new lease of life under Noble in 2006 IMO. Great prop IMO.

Dave

Yeah I used to like both Logan and Fletcher always seemed to give their all for us in the time they were here. And your right Barrett did join in 2007 even though I am sure the signing was announced half way through the 2006 season as there was talk, would he still sign for us if we were playing in NL1 the season after

fletcher was class!

Absolute rubbish. Why would the NRL's top try scoring winger, one of the best under the high ball and has great speed signed to "switch to be a centre"? Even Millward wasn't that stupid. Please stop posting factually incorrect things.

If he wasn't signed to play centre, why was he given the #3 shirt?

Dallas was 2, Calderwood was 5?