Re: Today’s match v Giants : Tue Feb 18, 2025 3:06 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I don’t get the Ratchford bashing.
You don’t forget how to ride a bike.
He is older that means if he’s injured, it may take him a bit longer to recover.
But the guy is fit, and so is better than Hayes and Leyland.

As I said earlier, he has no pace, no kicking game and offers no creativity. At least Leyland can take the line on and has a half decent running game.

Re: Today’s match v Giants : Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:10 pm  

Or thane wrote:

Leyland i believe played every game last year starting in the halves, so he's played every team twice. So he's not nervous of any team, i think he should have gotten the nod but i get his thinking (to a degree) that he properbly went for more experience.
Burgess does make odd selections from time to time but i assume he goes with hit gut feeling, and it's steered us well so far. I'm not the coach but i believe there are a few better choices on players to pick each week, that would improve us. But i'm an average joe, and Burgess is a Legend so i'll leave it to him.

His team also finished the season bottom of the league.

Re: Today’s match v Giants : Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:14 pm  

Interesting how almost everyone on here knows better than Sam.
I can seen Steph being 7 in Vegas, and should we win that game, they’ll be some eggy faces on here.

Re: Today’s match v Giants : Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:19 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

Interesting how almost everyone on here knows better than Sam.
I can seen Steph being 7 in Vegas, and should we win that game, they’ll be some eggy faces on here.

If Steph is selected I’m sure we will all back him. I would like to see Leyland selected though, otherwise what was the point of singing him?

Re: Today’s match v Giants : Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:36 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

Interesting how almost everyone on here knows better than Sam.
I can seen Steph being 7 in Vegas, and should we win that game, they’ll be some eggy faces on here.

I don't think anyone is professing to "know better" than Sam, they are expressing their opinions. You do this all the time often with wild projections that turn up a bit wide of the mark. The opinion seems to suggest that playing a 37 year old in a crucial position that he has not played in much/effectively during his earlier career is a bit of a backwards facing choice when we have recruited an understudy.

Sam is, by his own admission, a new coach who will make mistakes like the rest of us. A classic example was the preparation for the CC Final which completely back fired. I also think our prep for the start of the season has been so-so based on the Hudds game.

But everyone is behind Sam, just raising eyebrows as we are entitled to do so. Plenty on here been watching the Wire long before Sam, and will so long after he has gone. He is not beyond critique.

As for eggy faces, I'll cope if we get the 2 points in LV, I just worry about Ratch not being able to lay a finger on French and us being nullified by the Wigan defence which will be a significant upgrade on Huddersfield's.

We will see.

Re: Today’s match v Giants : Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:47 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

His team also finished the season bottom of the league.

So, following your rationale...why sign him?

Why play him in the pre-season games and not Ratchford?

Re: Today’s match v Giants : Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:16 pm  

To be fair to Stef, he held the ball up really well and created the space for both the Ashton and King tries. Richardson would want to do better on both, but he really gets into the line and makes Richardson defend Holroyd on both occasions.

It was a supporting role, and he didn’t really do much to hold the shirt, but when the chances came to win the game he didn’t mess them up.

Still. We need a proper 7, someone to take charge and let Williams just play. It would help if we had a kicker for field position, it felt like if it wasn’t Walker, it was a bit of a hit and hope. Walker though, we should give him a licence to kick.

Re: Today’s match v Giants : Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:17 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

So, following your rationale...why sign him?

Why play him in the pre-season games and not Ratchford?

I don’t know why you bite, he loves attention it’s that simple.

Re: Today’s match v Giants : Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:45 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

His team also finished the season bottom of the league.

Mate this is such a stupid comment it's unreal, i didn't realise London finished bottom because Leyland started every week.
Makes you wonder why we play Ratchford, Williams, Ashton, King, Walker, Currie etc because we finished 11th a few years ago, clearly awful players.