can someone please tell me on why when paaaaats avin a nightmare (on kicking) why dont we give deacon a go.

, im not knocking paaaaaat but has we all no at the mo he is havin a stinker.

Kicked all the goals against Hull and missed one against Catalan. He's just inconsistent, I wouldnt say hes having a shocker.

Deacon wasn't in the 17?

deacon did nt play did he




ill start worrying if we start losing games through missed kicks up to now i dont think he s done too bad, not his best but like i say not too bad

to be fair he had an off day but they were all pretty tough.

Dont remember him missing any easy ones. He kicks them when it matters IMO

People were going mad but the ones he missed were hard kicks

Every kick he missed was from out wide, however he did miss too many regardless of how wide they were.

It wasn't acceptable IMO.

I told you all he was sh*t

His missed kicks were all from out wide. And he is striking the ball really well and not missing by very much.

In my opinion only Danny Tickle is better than Pat.

I disagree, Richards isn't even the best goal kicker at the club IMO

Deacon probably is but he can't get in the team in front of Tommy, Sam or Piggy.

Pat is probably kicking at over 80% anyway and scorong tries for fun.

Who would you drop?

I think we are scraping the barrell a bit for something to have a pick at with this arent we?

I wouldn't have Deacon in the team, I'm just saying Pat Richards isn't the best kicker at the club.

Pat's problem isn't ability but consistency, he's shown he can be superb goal kicker, kicking them from all over the place, yet for some reason since going to the World Cup with Ireland he's lacked the consistency he had before.

Perhaps Pat would benefit from having a kicking coach brought in to refine his technique and get to the bottom of why he blows so hot and cold when kicking goals.

Get rid of him.

Problem is, it's our wingers scoring all the tries, which means they're mostly out wide. We need to go back to the "up-the-middle" stuff, so that what few tries we score are easier conversions...


(or, of course, keep scoring enough tries that the goals don't matter...)

Yeah, give him the boot.

Shoe him out? That's a slippery idea. You reckon he's clogging up the side?

Some of his misses were from eminently kickable positions. His style needs to change. He seems to be putting far too much power into his kicks at the expense of a more careful aim. Plus his kicks seems to be curving more compared to when he was at his most succesful period when the kicks were more arrowlike.

Yeah, he has no sole.

After Pat we have these choices:

Roberts, Phelps, Riddell, Deacon and even Leuluai.

Take your pick.

Riddell. If we are to miss the goals at least he can entertain the crowd while he does so..........

Has piggy ever kicked a goal for us?

It's one thing I really wanna see him do & the piggy jiggy on good Friday as well of course

He did at Barrow last season.