Quote ="Fantastic Mr Cat"quick side note, this is the difference between saints blooding youngsters and us, maybe other teams, welsby was 4th sub for 12 months and filled in where necessary and they adjusted, be it centre, wing, fb half or hooker, and then when he was getting a starting gig, centre/wing, that's when they brought dodd in for the same thing.
Price wouldn't do that, as we know he'd occasionally use academy lads as seat fillers on the bench, but we're not in a position, especially this season to be carrying three average forwards and a potential wildcard on the bench, which is annoying when you think ppl suggest we should be doing this with ratch, have him as a fill in.
bit of a rant there, not sure it all makes sense, but it kinda does.'"
I suggested we used Ratch as a utility player as I wanted DP to put Thewlis at FB for the season. But not necessarily on the bench (although he could be used there sometimes), as there will be times when he could fill in during the season, by starting in a number of positions without moving too many players about. Ratchford is too slow to be regularly starting at FB and I stand by my comments.
