Actually he's not. He's overweight and lacks mobility. Elliot Whitehead, Wayne Godwin, Brett Kearney and Michael PLatt, these are your natural athletes.

They are indeed, it must be the way you question.

I wouldn't say he's overweight but he certainly lacks mobility. Stiff as a board springs to mind.

I'd say flexibility rather than mobility, cos he can shift when he wants to

I wish I was as overweight as Worrincey.

So here we are again, a player being over critisised due to his so called lack of ability! Then wothout a second thought a poster, trying to justify his witch hunt uses a player who was also demonised (probably by the same people) to bolster thier arguement for a termination of his contract, mad! If the majority on here had thier way Micheal Platt would have been publicly hung drawn and quatered in the middle of the pitch!

Short memories some folk!

The purpose of starting this thread was to invite intelligent comment as to how Mick Potter will game plan for 2011 given that almost all of the team has been signed/retained by him.
What might we deduce from his signings as to the style of rugby he will play.

Its a bit disconcerting to see the thread sidetracked into denigrating individual players

As far as I can see, he runs good lines in attack and has great pace and athleticism which could be very effective outside a good half back. On the other hand, he has missed a couple of poor one-on-one tackles which have led to tries, and any errors he makes are more likely to be exposed because he stands out on the pitch. If you compare his stats to Ben Westwood, you will see that Westwood played one game more than Worrincy and missed 7 more tackles, made 11 more errors and gave away one more penalty. Westwood did make more tackles and almost twice as many metres, but this can be attributed to having more playing time, and if a player is so demonised for having a poorer work rate than Ben Westwood then to be honest your whole squad should be in trouble. I don't know if the accusation of Worrincy being overweight is true or just part of his character assasination, but it never used to be the case that he was overweight, certainly not at Harlequins or in his first season at the Bulls, and if he was out of shape then you can hardly blame the player himself, he was training full time and will have been following the fitness regimes given to him by McNamara's staff.

More holes in that view than Nigellas gusset.

Comparing Ben Westwood and his "stats" to Worrincy?? Sweet sunny Jesus, world's on it's arris.

The point Headhunter makes about Worrincey 'outside a good halfback' is fair. When playing with Ben Jeffries (barely above average but still our best 6 by a distance in years) he ran good lines, broke tackles and scored important tries (at home against Leeds and away against Sts in 2009).

Last year due to the woeful squad composition he was spelled at prop in a team that played almost all year without a recognised stand off and most of it without a 7 either. This does not mitigate against some of the worst 'missed tackles' seen at Odsal in a long time. Having said that ever since SM took over our defence was in decline and in no way can Worrincey be blamed for all those games where we conceded 3 or 4 tries in the opening 1/4 only to start to play better out of feared humiliation.

In short I feel we have been a very poorly coached and assembled squad and if MP thinks he can make use of Worrincey then I'm right behind him.

<Phil Clarke mode on>

Do you know Eddeh, Mick Potter has assembled his squad like a potter shaping his wares on the potter's wheel. To be successful, he will have to mix the quality imported clays from Australia with the more inconsistent locally-sourced clays. He will have to break some mis-fired pots (Worrincy etc) from the previous regime and hope that they don't weaken the temper of his new side when he throws them into the mix. He has to mix the clays carefully over the off-season, allowing the new elements to settle into a strong structure. At somepoint he will have to fire up the team in the furnace of the SL competition. He must get the atmosphere right - his training must cover up all weaknesses in the mix; the hastily and uneven fired pot will break. By July we will know if his wares are beginning to crack or if the mixture has shown enough durability to match the high quality products of the likes of Wigan and Saints. When competing with these clubs he must encourage the team to be like a Bull in a china shop, and not spend too much time admiring their craftmanship on the rugby field. If not, it may be left to Hood to pick up the pieces at the end of the season...

Almost spot on, you just missed repeated use of the word intensiteh.

hopefully potter will wave his magic wand and make Worrincy and Hall disappear, up there with two of the worst forwards to play for the bulls in SL! However Hall was in his first season so if he improves my opinion may change hypocritically

Point out what's wrong with what I have said then. I'm obviously not trying to compare the two as players, but Worrincy missed less tackles and made less errors than Westwood, that's a fact.