Its got yo be Paddy the Transit cool calm and a good go forward.

I'm not getting into a Deacon argument again but you would have got nowhere near the try line without Orford in the games he played, to be in a position to kick the conversion in the first place.

absolutely but we had nobody to make the benefit better. 3 converted tries against 3 non converted tries gives you that bit more breathing space and also puts a bit more pressure on the team without a decent goal kicker. scoring an extra couple of tries against the better teams with better defences makes a hard job unnecessarily harder.

wasnt he here for the 2009 season when our kicking seemed particularly bad, or did he miss a lot through injury?

In 2009, Deacon kicked 86 from 109 in Superleague. At 78.9% that's probably a little off his best, but by no means bad.

In 2010 in Superleague, Sykes kicked 37 from 51 (72.5%) and Orford kicked 31 from 45 (68.9%)

As Wigan found, to their cost.

Oh hang on . . .