He's 22 not 17 or 18 is that really a youngster.

7 missed tackles from the weekend, not good enough for a second rower, particularly one who offers no attack. Addy & Whitehead (when he was here) probably get away with poor defending as they offer something in attack, Olbison doesn't. He only made 41m all game.

Similar age to when Jamie Peacock started to look like he could play a bit, IIRC

...and Kevin Ward too.

Not that I think Olbison is going to reach those heights but I think we need to recognise that he deserves a bit of leeway. With Blythe likely to be fit for the Cas match I'd expect him to be given a break.

It's a pity that someone whose son is a professional at another club sees fit to comment in this way about a young player. You won't like it when it happens to your lad; and it will. It's you that is the disgrace.

Well as like many others I thought his defence was very very poor on Sunday,am I not allowed to comment,as others do?

Chris's lad is a youngster Tom isn't HTH.

Tom is a PROFESSIONAL rugby league player. Doesn't matter how old you are in any job, if your not doing your job properly you get told. Fans pay players wages so they have every right to criticise. As RedVee said, Tom is not a young player. He has been in the 1st team for four years now. 7 missed tackles and 41m gained is not good enough for a second rower. Winning teams set high standards.

And every player’s allowed to have a bad game from time to time. If those stats are correct then they’re not good enough. He seems a level headed lad so he’ll expect criticism where it’s deserved, which it is in this case.

However, Olbison’s had some good moments too this year, his tries last week at Wakey and away at Leeds were good and showed he can read the game and make an impact.

We’ve had worse players in the second row in the past 4 years.

Tom was playing injured Sunday wasn't at his best, but having a small squad is hurting us a lot of the lads playing when still not fully fit so I take my hat off to the guy

But of course people don't want to see that. They only want to criticise. Tom runs really good lines and often, unnoticed by a lot of people, it is his runs that open the gaps for the tries.

I've not read anywhere he was injured, nor did he appear to be "strapped up".

Look at Elima, and Paea, they had more strapping than a mummy.

Tom may run good lines, but so did Worrincy (in fact I thought he was an excellent line runner) but I think we're really clutching at straws if that's the only attributes we can think of. It's a contact sport.

I'm not a fan who criticises players every mistake they make. However I was genuinely livid as a fan watching his performance on Sunday. The stats showed it was a very very poor performance.

It's not his first bad performance, he had a similar defensive shocker against Leeds at home abd hudds at MM. Needs to cut them out.