Quote: sally cinnamon "His RL career has caught up with him once he hit his 30s?
He turned 30 in 2008. Since then he has won Man of Steel for Huddersfield, been top points scorer in the league last year, and he played in 29 out of 32 Warrington matches last year so it's not as though he's becoming an ageing crock. His career hasn't caught up with him any more than Chris Hicks had.'"
We all know that he won MOS, we all know that he was the leading point scorer last year which was helped largely by a freak season from us (scoring wise) where we ran up numerous cricket scores. He managed to play more games last year mainly due to a lot of our games being one sided and not being very intense, just have a look at the scores and how often we would have had the ball in hand rather than having to constantly defend.
Why do you think that Huddersfield didn't offer him a longer deal ? Remember he was a recent MOS winner for them, he was also a prolific goal kicker. They knew his physical condition far better than you or me, we took a risk and for the large part its paid off, what happened to him against Leeds in the play offs which was one of our biggest games in the history of the club, especially our SL history ?
Raise the intensity where he has to work harder and he's going to struggle, i hope he doesn't struggle as he's a great player when fully fit, in some of those games he played last year i wouldn't be suprised if he wasn't fully fit, with Riley being away we didn't really have cover at fullback without causing too much disruption.
