Quote: Bullseye "His last really good game for us as I remember.
I remember years before reading Mal Reilly's autobiography where he talks about Fielden and the way he played the game and worried his career may be short lived.
While Stu had a decently long career he was certainly far less effective from the age of 28/29, when you'd expect him to be getting even better. I wonder if that was to do with the amount of punishment he took as a you lad?'"
Absolutely right I'd say. Never hit the heights at Wigan that he did with Bradford. Always hear people putting it down to the Mason incident and him "losing his bottle" but that's just a co-incidence in my eyes that the effect that you describe started to happen around the time of that incident.
Although I was gutted when he left I'd have sooner seen him continue to be one of the best props in the world than deteriorating like he did; wherever he was playing.