When Patton kicked that drop goal, is it only me that thought "Christ... He looked just like Briers then..." The way he stood at an angle to the sticks... The way he caught it and held the ball out in front of him with the little look up before the head went back down. It was quite uncanny.

Actually having seen many poor dg attempts from many sides it just makes me think that Briers never truly got the recognition he deserved for the 40m drop goal against Leeds in the play offs that won us the game a good few years back (I think it was our first win in the play offs - or at least one of the first).

The Leeds drop goal was very good, but when he did it away at Hull KR in the CC Quarter Final to win by the golden point was his best imo. That's still the best away game I've been too in 30 years of watching the Wire.

In his very first game for us against Wakefield he put up a spiralling bomb that was Jonathan Davies like. I almost had visions of Graham Steadman under it. The following week Ryan Hampshire did a good impression of him. The lad has a big future and we can trust TS to look after it for him.

Well if we're patting ourselves on the back I asked whether he was ready for the first team two weeks earlier on the "For The Love Of God Thread"