What evidence do you have that he can play fullback ? Not the odd game once in a blue moon to cover for injuries like a lot of teams do with various players, where is the evidence that Ratchford is a competent fullback ?



If he had obvious potential as a fullback then why would Salford have signed Luke Patten and wasted a quota spot in the process ?

Who's ever said that's what he is being brought in for though? Surely he's just a Matt King replacement?

Matt King's replacement will probably be Chris Bridge, if not him then Joel Monaghan will move into the right centre with one of the youngsters on the wing.

The only evidence I have that he can play Fullback is the fact that he has played Fullback. He's only a young player Rob, I'm hardly likely to be able to point to 100 games where he has played there. Experience isn't necessarily a bar to entry - how many games had Lockyer played at 6 before Bennett moved him there.



I don't know why Salford recruited Luke Patten to play Fullback. Presumably because he is an experienced Australian player and they thought he could bring something to the team.



If the plan is to play him at Fullback then I suspect the person we really need to ask is Tony Smith. Suspect he might be able to explain.

He's not a winger though.

Welcome to the Wire, Ratch! Yeah, I'm already going to simplify his surname.



Look, i've read through some posts on here whereby somebody for one reason or another isn't excited at the prospect of him playing for us. But Ratchford has bags and bags of potential. Trust me. He's shown at Salford how good he can be and he is a loss to them no matter what they think.

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new coach isnt too pleased that we took myler now ratchford. diddums.

Aww shame. They've had Wainwright, Neal, Vinnie, Parker, Barnett etc off us.

Err.. Parish = Dick. What "isn't right"? If you want to keep your best players, perhaps don't leave it until mid season of the last year of the contract to start negotiating when other clubs are allowed to approach them. Not ing hard.

You're 100% right but to be fair to him there's not a lot else he can say really. He's got to ingratiate himself with the locals so he may as well have a dig at Ratchford.



I note that he's 22. Rogues will go mental - he's 30 in 8 years time!

He's only been in the job for a week, and he's allready proving to be a bigger Berk than McRae ever could be(and that takes some doing)

Has nobody told him about the £200k (?) for Myler, we didn't exactly 'take him', they did that to Widnes when they were on the ropes. We paid our way.



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