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Re: Dec Patton : Wed May 15, 2019 9:40 am  

Builth Wells Wire wrote:

The exemption for Kevin browns wage on our salary cap was taken but we never signed anyone to take his place. So there is no problem. I don't know how Luther Burrell will fit into our salary cap. Maybe with the 6 months that Brown was not playing will take care of that.

first 2 years of burrell's contract don't count at all on the salary cap. then 50% in the third year.

Re: Dec Patton : Wed May 15, 2019 10:54 am  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

first 2 years of burrell's contract don't count at all on the salary cap. then 50% in the third year.

First season is zero on cap second season is 50% I'm not sure if 1st season counts as July to end of season.

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Re: Dec Patton : Wed May 15, 2019 11:14 am  

Dezzies_right_hook wrote:

First season is zero on cap second season is 50% I'm not sure if 1st season counts as July to end of season.

he's exempt up until the end of his first full season, we've played a blinder on this in terms of cap management bringing him in partway through this year.

Re: Dec Patton : Wed May 15, 2019 11:31 am  

matt_wire wrote:

It comes to something when people want Brown back. If I had a quid for every time I’ve exclaimed “bloody hell Brown” when watching him.

Garbage IMO. I’d rather play Dec.

Of course I await my correction and abuse for holding this opinion.

With some players absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Brown was slagged off for 2 years but since he has got injured his reputation has improved amongst the Wire faithful.

The same happens with Patton when he is out of the side. If Brown comes back in for Patton, after a few weeks this board will be full of posts slagging Brown off and hailing Patton as the home town wonderkid and future of the club being unfairly held back.

Re: Dec Patton : Wed May 15, 2019 5:52 pm  

[quote="sally cinnamon"]With some players absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Brown was slagged off for 2 years but since he has got injured his reputation has improved amongst the Wire faithful.


Absolutely agree Sal, I said something similar on another thread. It is amazing how much players improve whilst sat in the stands. Having said that, the pre-season preparations were centred around Austin and Brown so his injury has been a disruption which has given Patton an amazing opportunity.. Not sure if he has really grasped that baton Hope Brown gets back to at least give us an option

Re: Dec Patton : Wed May 15, 2019 10:16 pm  

Truth is that neither are sufficiently good enough for us now.

In Brown's defense however he has played at the very top level in his career (World Cup Final as starting halfback in 2017) and has played for 340 Super League games, across 4 clubs, with 2 being top clubs.

I don't think Dec will achieve either of those.

Re: Dec Patton : Thu May 16, 2019 4:49 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

With some players absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Brown was slagged off for 2 years but since he has got injured his reputation has improved amongst the Wire faithful.

The same happens with Patton when he is out of the side. If Brown comes back in for Patton, after a few weeks this board will be full of posts slagging Brown off and hailing Patton as the home town wonderkid and future of the club being unfairly held back.

It's a good shout and funny how it works in different ways for different players. Simon Grix was a terrific player for us, but whenever he got injured you would have folk on here saying 'send him to Widnes'.

On coming back, it would take a few months but people slowly came to appreciate him again.

Re: Dec Patton : Thu May 16, 2019 7:56 pm  

just_browny wrote:

It's a good shout and funny how it works in different ways for different players. Simon Grix was a terrific player for us, but whenever he got injured you would have folk on here saying 'send him to Widnes'.

On coming back, it would take a few months but people slowly came to appreciate him again.

It seemed to take a long time for our fans to appreciate Simon grix, Toby King seems to have suffered the same. We all see the game differently I suppose but the rugby brain and ability to test a defence was apparent in both early on for me. Don't get me wrong there are others I never saw anything from that others have rated.

Grixs (Wire) career ending injury is one of the biggest shames in my time watching the wire. He was probably one of our most important players in a team full of big names, potential captain material.

Re: Dec Patton : Thu May 16, 2019 9:44 pm  

For me Grix was/is the last ball playing loose forward we have had.Seems we go with an extra prop these days.

Re: Dec Patton : Thu May 16, 2019 9:52 pm  

I'm happy with a prop at 13. We've a spine of 1 6 7 9 11.