Re: Dec Patton : Tue Aug 27, 2019 2:31 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

Imo...the last team you ever want to give head and feed in a scrum with a minute and seconds on the clock...is Saints. I was happy with the touch in goal call.

so you were happy with them having more tackles and starting the game 20 yards further down the pitch?

Re: Dec Patton : Tue Aug 27, 2019 2:37 pm  

Wolf Hall wrote:

I don't often comment on this forum although I do read it regularly. I'm sick and tired of the pile on bullying on this Forum, except one or two individuals, of Dec Patton, even after a great Wembley performance by the entire team, including Patton. Indeed he was the sole halfback on Saturday for the Wire. Since Blake Austin has been injured he has been given and taken more responsibility and to my mind very effectively. Sure there are other faster, jinking halfbacks in the competition but he doesn't deserve 45 pages of armchair cynics biting like sharks tasting blood.
Oh, and by the way I am not related to Dec Patton, just someone who has supported the Wire for over 60 years, so I have seen a lot of halfbacks playing for us (and others), he should be afforded the respect like any other Warrington player.

100% This.

Re: Dec Patton : Tue Aug 27, 2019 3:05 pm  

morleys_deckchair wrote:

so you were happy with them having more tackles and starting the game 20 yards further down the pitch?

That is part of the baggage that comes from the benefit of having a full defensive structure against a team with the potential to blow any team out on the flanks...so that is a yes...20 metre further up field with a zero tackle...
There was a period in 2011 when we were so good and team fit, like Saints now, that Tony Smith instructed us to us to kick fairly deep but to keep the ball live over kicking for touch, as our stamina would play into fold.
Our defence was so good on Saturday that it wouldn't make any difference 20 or 40 yard restart.

Re: Dec Patton : Tue Aug 27, 2019 3:13 pm  

Boss Hog wrote:

100% This.

And I agree as well.....well done dec

Re: Dec Patton : Tue Aug 27, 2019 3:59 pm  

I have mentioned this before about whether the fans expectation of being a local lad, and coupled with the fact that His dad was also on the Warrington Club staff was weighing him down performance wise.

Well the story about Patton and his dad Lee Westwood was put out in the Warrington Guardian the week before the final.

Coincidence that Patton ups his game in the CC final?

Re: Dec Patton : Wed Aug 28, 2019 2:52 pm  

Not looked at the site for months. Nothing changes. Our style is too structured and does not suit Patton. Austin struggled once teams worked him out and achieved little in the games prior to his injury. Patton is a more creative player who thrives on runners and needs to be given his head. My mates reckon our pack needs some big additions to create to some real goforward. Even Briers did not shine until he was behind a great pack of forwards. Saturdays game plan was perfect with our current resources.

Re: Dec Patton : Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:28 pm  

PEAKEYBLINDER wrote:

Not looked at the site for months. Nothing changes. Our style is too structured and does not suit Patton. Austin struggled once teams worked him out and achieved little in the games prior to his injury. Patton is a more creative player who thrives on runners and needs to be given his head. My mates reckon our pack needs some big additions to create to some real goforward. Even Briers did not shine until he was behind a great pack of forwards. Saturdays game plan was perfect with our current resources.

Oh Peakey you are so last week.

Re: Dec Patton : Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:42 pm  

Superblue wrote:

I have mentioned this before about whether the fans expectation of being a local lad, and coupled with the fact that His dad was also on the Warrington Club staff was weighing him down performance wise.

Well the story about Patton and his dad Lee Westwood was put out in the Warrington Guardian the week before the final.

Coincidence that Patton ups his game in the CC final?

Plenty of Wigan lads play for Wigan - where the expectation is much higher - and manage to deliver. The reality is he's a player with a limited ceiling. Good enough to be a back up player in a good side, or a starter in a lower SL team. He's not a top player who would be first choice for an extended period of time in a top side, which is why the club signed Austin and Widdop and he will be their back up.

But he is the best Warrington born halfback in decades and he has won a Challenge Cup with his home town club, something all of us on this forum will have dreamed about and he's gone and done it so fair play to him, he is living the dream and nobody can take that trophy away from him.

Re: Dec Patton : Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:56 pm  

Patton has his moments but not consistantly, he's doing a good job for us and i can't really complain. I was made up with him when we played wigan and he took the line on, fair enough it didn't work out try wise but he got through. I'd love to see him do that more, and his kicking game has definately improved. And i never knew Lee Westwood was his dad

Re: Dec Patton : Wed Aug 28, 2019 7:14 pm  

Dec Patton has CC medal from a match few of us thought we would win and he played a part in that victory. The least we can do is give him a break for the rest of the season.