Before the start my lad thought Clarke @ scrum half was a good move, but to be honest he was anonymous. Can anyone remember something he actually did in the match because I'm struggling!

Hmm he ran onto the pitch at start i think.

He shipped the ball out to Briers or Hodgson and tackled hard. Presumably what Smith asked him to do.

The problem with Clarke is every pass he does seems to be in slow motion.

We lose, nd Clarke gets a thread of his own

QUELLE SURPRISE

So is Clarke not crap then?

On the other Hand Fans Favourite David solomona Was a man mountain in Attack and Defence, almost a perfect 90 minutes from the big fella..........

FFS. Where do people like you get off? DO WE HAVE TO HAVE A THREAD FOR CLARKE EVERY TIME WE LOSE?
Where's the thread for Wood who was "POOH"
Where's the thread for Anderson, who after today's "effort", needs a spell in the reserves.

WE WIN AS A TEAM, WE LOSE AS A TEAM....but oh no, the Clarke haters are out in force

as I said again, after Hudds, I am not a Clarke fan....but I don't go on a witchhunt for him

PATHETIC

is he that good

Fully agree. Had a feeling the forum would be on about Clarke after the match finished.

RL is a team game and it took the whole team working together to lose this one, it wasn't just one person.

think after a defeat it is very easy to pick out a scapegoat , but clarke is not doing himself no favours , we can handle players having an off day thats life but when you are selected to play you need to justify why you are picked over someone else....what do you actually bring to the team. He is running out of chances , today was another chance to try gaz o brien in the halves im sure the kid would of brought a bit more to the cause

Neither is Solomona, yet he is hailed as a god everytime he comes on and is greeted with that dumb chopping motion with the hand.

He was no poorer than Briers & Monaghan (x2 actually).

I'm just not sure what he is anymore, I can't knock his effort & commitment to Warrington, and I love the fact you can throw him in at any position and he'll have a dig, but I don't see him as a specialist anything anymore. He looks ineffective at hooker, lighweight in the pack, he's not a halfback.

Briers looked lost today, I think because Monas looked lost, he sort of takes his lead from him now. It's the quality of ball he gets from Monas, the plays are set etc, he looked the same in the Catalans game.

Their is only one thing on this thread thats pathetic and thats your love in with Jon Clarke.

He's started 2 games this year and prior to him starting a game we've gone from being in great form without him to looking like a shadow of our former selves when he starts. When we were struggling away at Huddersfield and we needed some spark from the bench he came on and just made things a whole lot worse.

No it aint all Clarkes fault but you get the feeling that when he starts he drags us down down to his own level, you can't have him in any key position as he'll just slow things down, as a team we like to play fast flowing RL and his basic left and right passes can easily be read in the next county.

The game has moved on a lot since he was a capable player, he aint quick enough in anything he does to compliment our fast flowing style.

yeah your right we all love the offloads but the big fella is making a stack of mistakes over the last month.
totally exposed against teams lately

I'm a big fan of a fully fit Solomona thats on his game as he's probably one of the best "if not the best" in the world at what he does, i said a while back that he should be rested and also something should be done with his fitness and physique.

Its getting to a stage where his body size is moving towards Paleaaesina levels, players will probably start to run at him like we did with Paleaaesina and expose his lack of mobility.

Solomona hasn't had a good game all season. Keep waiting for him to fire, beginning to think it might not happen.

And the same thing you have written for five years.

He does what he's always done. He moves the pack forward when he is hooker, he plays it simple when he's at 7.

He's not as good as Monaghan and he is struggling for form at present, but he could win us the GF and you wouldn't give him any credit cos he didn't scoot like Higham.

You can't have been watching Warrington much this year, he's been a standout player for the Wire this year!

I'll give any player credit that deserves it just like ive given Jon Clarke credit in the past but you choose to ignore that.

Like i said previously, the game has moved on a lot since the days that Jon Clarke's simple game was effective.

Sorry but Clarke doesn't take anything forward when he's at hooker, he passing and movement are so predictable, when he touches the ball it's like someone as turned slow motion on, he's been a great servant to the club, but he is nowhere near good enough now.

I can take a player having a bad game, but i can't remember the last time he had a half decent game.

I like Sol but it's frustrating watching him, he really needs to get back into shape as well.

anyway can I take this Way off topic while we are slagging players off and ask about Rhys Williams.........? cant Catch cant run fast.....

Yet some posters on here would rather have Clarke over Higham.

If standout means make lots of errors, then yes you are right.

Could have sworn our real standout performers had been Westwood, Monaghan and Hodgson.

Oh and Clarke didn't play at hooker today.