Am I the only one rapidly losing patience? far from the worst import we've ever had, but far from the 'marquee' player we were expecting. Frequently injured, knocks on a lot and we haven't seen the 'barge over the line with 3 defenders struggling to hold-on' stuff we saw from Willie Manu back in the day.

He's not the scapegoat for tonight, as I felt all 17 had poor to average games..but he needs to start justifying his place in the team and hefty salary.

Dissapointing the last few weeks. Kept hoping he'd step up but just not happening.

But he needs to be played in the correct position and not used as another prop.
He is most effective running wide.
You dont see Ben Currie taking drives down the middle he is used correctly by Smith staying wide using his power and pace and scoring tries.
Play him wide left with Tuimavave at left centre to play off him and the tries will come

does ok, but not what I expected, tonight after each drive he was bent over blowing out his arris, but as others have said needs to be running out wide

Absolutely spot on...He should not be played through the middle..

Both Pritchard and Fonua need quick early ball, so they can use their power
to a more devastating effect..

We need a skills coach, our passing is woeful, we need to employ set moves
near the oppositions try line.

I agree that the passing needs work, its been an issue for many years now not just under Radford. Surely with our Wembley windfall we can afford a specialist skills coach?

to me sometimes we just pass the ball along the line, whereas other teams have runners left right and centre

Id cash him in for a 6 .

If things don't change drastically no way want the 3rd year option. Even 'out of position' he's not anywhere close to VFM. Poor mans Minichello and by a distance.

The passing throughout the squad is simply not up to standard, -IMO.

When we get near the oppositions try line, we look as if, we dont know what to do,
we need more than a kick from Sneyd, or a piece of individual brilliance from Fonua.

We need to appoint someone like Deacon, even (Cooke) Brough, as a skills coach,
these guys could bring another dimension to our attack...

Too many people have watched the highlights package and got carried away
Needs to be used better bit he's still at the very top metre making 2nds in the league

we dont need Brough as a coach we need him or someone like him playing at six

Agree with this. Watched him all last year in NRL and he played left edge to much better effect. That said his stats this year are pretty good. There were a number of players last night who looked distinctly jaded after a tough season.

The problem is he plays the same position as mini and really he should be played from the off. We didn't really need to tie up such a huge chunk of salary cap in him when we also have ellis, mini and manu (although we signed pritchard before him) as back row options. His £175k a year would have been much better spent on a decent 6

When Ellis goes off and Pritchard replaces him I'd move Manu to the middle and Pritchard to the right. Yeah okay it's not his preferred left edge, but it still gets him out wide.

The first 10mins he was on he was used purely as a dummy runner.

Pritchard is definately being mis used. He is not a prop and yet is being played as one. What other team would pay the sort of money he is getting (reportedly £300,000) for a prop. I have watched him regularly in the NRL and he is devastating running out wide. I think he must be p***ed off playing down the middle hence his injuries. Would be surprised if he is still with us next season. We desperately need a top class proven stand off next year as when Sneed is off the boil we have no one else and therefore the creativity disappears. I would not play Timuvarvie at stand off as all he does most of the time is pass the ball on. Would rather play abdul there at least he offers a bit of variety and take the line on.

Thats the problem we have Minichello,Ellis and Pritchard who all prefer the left edge position,
I would rather see Pritchard and Ellis coming off the bench with Pritchard taking the place of Minichello and Ellis moving right to take the place of Manu.
Both Manu and Mini do too many minutes for me.Radford has changed the interchange minutes recently and for me its not worked.
6 now has to be the priority for next season

jake connor plays 6

we have a few who can play six but none who are a six.Big difference as we are now finding out

Why single out Pritchard when he has he same impact as the other interchanges. ?

We play q bullying game. Why are our big lads not lining to run the ball in like this life depends on it when we are 5 yards out?

With all due respect, Taylor has run out of petrol this season. Not a criticism, merel an observation.

singled out as he takes a shed load of our salary cap and some, singled out becayse he aint earning his keep, not by a long chalk. He certainly is not having the same impact as other interchanges, he doesn't do enough minutes/work rate for me, not for his level.
A for the oft thrown about 'well he makes loads of metres, it's not always reflective and I somtimes wonder who they are attributing metres to comparing written stats and watching all our matches back in full.

I don't believe that Frank himself is being singled out, more the manner in which we use him.
We've seen that when we play him out wide he's much more effective and Radders needs to address this so that we get value for money.

As others have said, Frank does the job he's being asked to do well. He always makes good metres and his workrate is excellent for a big man. We need him running wider, not just being used as a battering ram.

Saving him for the semi and final, secret weapon, wont be anywhere near the middle for the wigan game