wane had faith in him and gave him the spot for a season to sink or swim mistakes and errors and all something smith has never ever ever done so our younger players suffer on the back of it as shown this season a bad game or not a great one and he is dropped.

Ben Currie?

A good point although has Currie suffered and TS had to put up with a loss of form? I also think barring injuries TS would have stuck with Toby King

Any comparisons of how Wane treated Williams compared to how TS has treated Patton are not like for like. Williams was obviously a far better player than Patton was. You can make the comparison between Currie and Williams as both were very talented players already, and TS certainly gave him time. I seem to remember some posters on here being very critical of him at some stages, yet he was still picked every week.

We also don't know much about how Patton himself will cope with the loss in form, is he likely to worry and let it affect his performances, in which case continuing to play him will just compound the problem, or is he the type that will just want to play on without it affecting him?

We are also assuming that have had been dropped due to a drop in form, rather than there being anything else going on behind the scenes that we don't know about - I'm not suggesting that's the case, I wouldn't know, but it highlights that we don't always know what goes on behind closed doors, so we're not always in a position to criticise.

Described as a coward, I seem to remember.