Warrington Wolves • Re: Todays game v Leeds
The_runaround wrote:
but this is the problem we give too much credit to what a player has done previously not what he is doing for us now or will do in the future.
ratchford unfortunately for the majority of his time with us has caused coaches headaches of where to play him as he was not good enough in specialist rolls but too good to leave out of the side, whilst he is a very good rugby player I do feel he has caused us more headaches than solved problems over his time with us.
If that's the issue, blame the coaches who don't know how to deploy him. Or blame those who recruited him despite him not having a defined role in the squad. Or, if the issue is that he's past his best, blame those who still throw contracts at him. But for people to slag him off and say he isn't even a RL player is a bad thing to do for someone who's put his body on the line for our team/town for over a decade. Admittedly, we have several current players supposedly in their prime who do a shoddy job masquerading as professional RL players and we all know who they are. However, I'm not very comfortable calling someone out who has given his all for this club for so long. That's a different kettle of fish IMO. Sure if he's past his best move him on, but he shouldn't be disparaged when there are bigger wage thieves in the mix.
Statistics: Posted by matt_wire — Mon Aug 21, 2023 2:53 pm