[quote="Alffi_7":1oid8nfl] Great to see Lindop seemingly getting the nod for centre, has Burgess indicated Tai has an injury, or is Lindop just considered first choice right now?.[/quote:1oid8nfl] In the last press article I saw Sam said ... Q: What was behind James Harrison and Rodrick Tai missing out? SB: I expect them to be banging on my door! It’s a healthy spot to be in and I’m happy we’re in this position. Jimmy’s had a disrupted pre-season and hasn’t trained a lot, and I thought Zane (Musgrove) had been good for us. Arron (Lindop) has had a great pre-season and took his points well tonight. Rod’s got a couple of things to tidy up, but it’s a healthy position to be in with the competition.

After reading through this thread I had to remind myself that we had actually won on Sunday and that Ratchford had a reasonable game ... Nothing too flashy but solid throughout the 80 mins,much like every other player ... So why should he be dropped this week ??

I think it’s more a case of challenging Leyland to go and take the shirt off someone. It was meant to be Hayes with Leyland in pursuit, now he’s got a slow moving target, but he obviously isn’t doing enough to force Sam to put his trust in him. But, the one positive from this is the absolute iron confidence in Hayes. Sam has said publicly, as has Chambers, that he is the plan. It’s so un-Warrington like. We’re not sniffing around an aging superstar, not keeping the door open for Sneyd, it’s Hayes. The job now is to persuade the terrace to be patient. He won’t be polished or the finished article, but we all have to take a breath when things go wrong, because if we do we might just drop lucky.

[quote="sirlesboyd2":1czyyy9p]After reading through this thread I had to remind myself that we had actually won on Sunday and that Ratchford had a reasonable game ... Nothing too flashy but solid throughout the 80 mins,much like every other player ... So why should he be dropped this week ??[/quote:1czyyy9p] I guess it's all opinions. I cant remember him excelling in the halves in his career, he's 37 and we are spending cap on a backup half. He's a stop gap fix, not a strategic forward looking selection. It reminds me of something Price would have done and is total opposite of "next man up".

[quote="Barbed Wire":2eow5ah0] But, the one positive from this is the absolute iron confidence in Hayes. Sam has said publicly, as has Chambers, that he is the plan. It’s so un-Warrington like. [/quote:2eow5ah0] Do you think Hayes is good enough for us to win a league title in 2025? Or just good enough?

[quote="Wires71":3r0347pz]I guess it's all opinions. I cant remember him excelling in the halves in his career, he's 37 and we are spending cap on a backup half. He's a stop gap fix, not a strategic forward looking selection. It reminds me of something Price would have done and is total opposite of "next man up".[/quote:3r0347pz] Last season was all about next man up, now this all feels a bit Peter Mata’utia. Granted Ratchford is not as crap as he was but would not have had him as next man up.