Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:54 pm  

I cannot understand the reasoning behind moving Gidley now....last season, yes I'd be the first to advocate it.
He plays now the position he will play when Ratchford returns.

Gidley and Brown 7 & 6
I'm no fan of Russell at fb but that is where I would play him until Ratchford returns

Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:56 pm  

With the depth of our squad...I'd also play the strongest team possible....I mean we're not playing a CC it GF next week.

Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:28 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

I cannot understand the reasoning behind moving Gidley now....last season, yes I'd be the first to advocate it.
He plays now the position he will play when Ratchford returns.

Gidley and Brown 7 & 6
I'm no fan of Russell at fb but that is where I would play him until Ratchford returns

I can see Russell's strengths as a runner. I watched the Catalan game and I can see the need for the switch. Matty Russell looked very shaky under the high ball. He'll get a few less of them on the wing.

Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:51 am  

Yes but is not a game for whole sale change.
We have TS still seamingly unsure of what the starting team is...

We're completely exposed in the quarters....and for how may seasons!
If I were forced to make a change now, it would be only to move Hughes into a centre position, but this could have been forseen during preseason.
I'm 100% not a fan of Russell at fb but he must continue there until Ratchford returns.

Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:08 am  

I think his plans were scuppered by Russel's display. Wasn't Gidley given the No.1 shirt last year?

Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:32 pm  

Ratchford isn't a fullback either & trying to play him there is a waste of his talents. One of his best games of last season was Catalans away when he played halfback. The best fullback i have seen at our club recently is Jack Johnson,but let's see how Gidley fits in tonight.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Sat Feb 18, 2017 1:57 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

Yes but is not a game for whole sale change.
We have TS still seamingly unsure of what the starting team is...

I think your second sentence together with a couple or three injuries to Ratchford, King and Johnson probably makes your first one not quite on the mark.

I think that it is entirely the game to make wholesale changes if Patton makes it then it's his partnership with Brown that will be the way forward

Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:15 pm  

Uncle Rico wrote:

I think your second sentence together with a couple or three injuries to Ratchford, King and Johnson probably makes your first one not quite on the mark.

I think that it is entirely the game to make wholesale changes if Patton makes it then it's his partnership with Brown that will be the way forward

Which is exactly what happened. I'm just pleased that TS doesn't think like most on here, some absolute rubbish being spouted.

Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Mon Feb 20, 2017 10:54 am  

I would stick Ratchford in the centre instead of Evans... you cannot have a passenger playing at centre and expect to win in big games when the defence goes up another notch in intensity.

Evans just does absolutely nothing in attack, he doesn't know when to pass or when to run... he must have just been bigger and faster than everyone else as a kid, and just cannot fathom what to do when he cannot just run over or around people.

So that would mean Gidley at fullback, Brown and Patton in the halves with Russell on the wing.

Re: Wolves Squad Against Brisbane : Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:22 am  

I'm all for Ratchford at centre. But I have now watched the game again and our centres played really well v. Broncos. Evans stretched the opposition defence a few times and Atkins was a handful. You have to give credit when it is due.