Pretty good signing when you think what Cayless has done and the wedge he's taken.

As for stats - they're important to an extent. But maybe Fozzard is told to keep it simple by Morgan and not to offload as they have other forwards for the fancy stuff. He's not, by a long shot, one of the best props in super league but he'll take a load of the work off others and doesn't shirk hitting it up from his own goal line. Certainly don't think he's as good as Kylie, JP or Ali but i doubt Saints management think so either...he'll do a job, no matter how simple it is. Might open up Graham to do some of the other work he's quite good at in attack.

Metres alone isn't a good indication, as a player could take the ball up hundreds of times to make the metres but they might not be effective metres.

Carries alone isn't a good indication. If a player is running the ball in hundreds of times but not making enough metres forward the team would be better served giving the ball to someone else.

Metres per carry is a combination of the two.

Now, James Graham will lose out slightly in the metres per carry stat, simply because he is called on to do so much work. St Helens will be fully aware of this, and they will accept this because of his value to the team. But you don't just deride the MPC stat because it works out badly for Graham.

Stats are good. They give good indications of how players perform. But you need to look at ALL the stats together.

Absolutely no doubt at all that 3 back to back SLs would make Leeds a great team.

It's hard to explain the lack of CC success, really is a strange one.

Chokers

Not at all.

We don't value it. Its' worthless.

Every year we publicly say we're targeting it but that's just to put other teams off the scent of our championship hunt.

Its' Mickey Mouse.




Until we win it of course and then our victory will give it some authority.

Thought as much