Quote: ThePrinter "In terms of Leigh's Middle 8 performance last year. It says a lot more about Leigh than it does Brierley. I think naively they thought they could keep the same style and win instead of realising they needed to adapt to the different level of opposition.....given that would other HB's have excelled with that approach Leigh took? And given a different /team/coach/league/approach would Brierley improve as a player?
Just because Leigh usually stroll past opposition and took a naive approach to the Middle 8's doesn't mean a player couldn't perform in the SL under different circumstances.
BTW Not saying Brierley would be a success if he came.....just sounds rather naive and simplistic to say he won't make it because of Leigh's results as a team in those Middle 8 games.'"
Fair enough. Be interesting to see if he gets an SL chance somewhere