Hope Patton has had a tetanus jab .

Nobody was available though were they, at that stage of a season it is stupid for any club to release even a back up halfback if he is half decent as they will need him in case their first choice gets injured. The only players we could have signed would have been unsigned cast offs. Can you imagine how people would have viewed it if a home grown lad like Patton had been sitting on the bench all year while we were watching some cast off potter about being garbage.

Anyway....I bet we never thought we'd say this but we would have been a stronger side if Tyrone Roberts was still here.

Not necessarily.

My money is on Ratchford. It will be "why at his age have we not found a settled position for him...jack of all trades, master of none".

Does that mean he will be at half back next week then

If Brown will be back (relatively) soon then there's little point moving Ratchford out of fullback only to put him back there again.

Were already grumbling about Currie. Brown won't be going to 7 sometime soon, if ever in 2019.
There is the point.
Get Ratch in the halves ASAP.

Like Chris Hill did last season when he accused Hakim Miloudi?

We do, Riley Dean in the u19s is a better player imo. I watch the u19s fairly regularly and have been very impressed with him each time I have been down to Vicky park

Yes Dec was rubbish yesterday not for the first time. My bigger concern is for the last couple of weeks Austin seems to have been playing on one leg. He is clearly not 100%. Crikey if he has to take a rest we are in some doo doo.

Patton was bilge and so were many others...come near the end I was wondering who.ll get m.o.m cos I couldn't pick one...p I p

Austin 1st 40 poor
Patton 2nd 40..50 poor
Currie the whole game bar one nice inside pass to nothing though...very poor.

There is always a bit of a hangover with the team, and most teams in general after the high octane games like Wigan

Ratchford never has been and never will be comfortable at half-back, whereas he is outstanding at fullback.

Im going to leave team selection to Mr Price this week as he's better qualified and closer to the players than me.

What???!!!! Just because he's played the game professionally, has learned his trade as a coach working alongside some of the best, turned the Wire around last season taking us to both finals, steered us to 2nd place in the table so far this year with an extra win compared to this time in either 2016 or 2018, knows the players, their injury situation, what my be effecting them off the pitch? What sort of a reason is that????!!!!

Team selection should be left to a committee of spectators (I say 'spectators' because we clearly need to preclude anybody who actually attends matches every week), some of whom may have played the game whilst at High School, meeting in the Lower Angel on a Wednesday evening. Then maybe we'd win something.

Nice one.

Price knows best - sure. Cautionary note though if we are still potless at the of 2020 it won't matter a jot about his credentials.

Seems like you had made your judgment now half way through the season?

My judgement is consistent.
Patton has it inow him...I've seen his talent.
He isn't doing it...there's a difference from not being capable.
That is more disappointing tbh

Austin is struggling the last couple of weeks because of the inept half back partner in Patton that we have. With Ratchford now injured I can now see us struggling for a good while now. Why not give Riley Dean a shot what harm can it do.

Good grief.
Have you been a game this season?

The partnership has been poor at times and terrible the last 2 weeks, but you cannot lay Austin being poor down to Patton too!

Yes I have been this season. Only missed one and that was the Hull game last week. But how many chances does Patton need. Obviously imo he is not good enough.

Well that's a fairer comment.
As chances..well I'd have dropped him after last week.
However he has as many chances as the injury situation allows.

If he's poop vs Pies, time then to consider Harvey.

James Stewart's 6 foot rabbit of the same name, would do a better job than Patton, on recent form

Our pack hasnt been great in recent weeks, and its no coincidence that Austin's performance have tailed off a bit on the back of our forwards not laying the platform. However, Austin will have off games, everyone does. My issue is, do we have anthoer half back who can run and game and dictate play when hes off the boil? At the minute, no. Dec has had his chances, and for where Wire want to be he is far from good enough. Im hoping Brown is back sooner rather than later, as i genuinely think Austin and Brown would be a great mixture.....

We are certainly going to have to do it tough for the foreseeable....these injuries will probably seen Dec given another chance, although a bloke i stand next to at the game has given some big raps to the Riley Dean (is it?), seems to be wowing in the U'19. For me, if your good enough, your old enough...give him a go.

.....Alex Murphy was good enough at 16.
If your good enough, your old enough.