Has expensive tastes, expect Chris to remain in the news in future years.

Someone like that just has to find their thing in life. Maybe he just likes playing rugby league with his mates and doesn't want to have an environment where he has to live his life by the rules of a professional set up.

Coal mining is not going to be an easy life and if he's not turning up to shifts there he will soon get kicked out but maybe it's more his thing so he'll stick with it.

I'm glad we had him for the time we did as he was a superb player to watch and brought excitement to the P&B but we can't really have complaints about how it turned out as we knew his history. It's like when people say we should sign Hock, you know these players bring issues and the real top teams don't tend to sign players like this, they tend to get rid of them.

I reckon a good rule of thumb with players with a past is no more than second chances. If a player makes a mistake at a club when young he might get his head together when someone else gives him a go, but if a player is available who has had issues at two clubs it's likely to be a pattern that will just repeat through his career and just disrupt dressing rooms.

There is probably more security than a few years playing rugby. The miners in Oz are on mega bucks & their mining techniques are more up to date & worker friendly than the NCB used to offer.

Widge.

You reap what you sew. If the fella wants to work in a coalmine, so be it.

I can't be d clicking on the link, so I've no idea if it's a cry for help/attention. He's made his bed, let him lay in it. I give less than one love. I wonder if his friends from Warrington's hostelrys miss him?

From the way Smith "resurrected" Briers' career, with his off the field activities, I'm sure Smith was aware of Sandow's foibles. Seems some people don't want to take advice.

I believe Briers resurrected his own career...
He was in his way to Barrow. Contracts drawn up...then LB weeped to TS he didn't want to leave...TS told him what had to go for him to stay...LB did the rest.

Was this Barrow thing realistic?

Briers was already the most consistent halfback in SL by 2009.

This idea that he was some kind of lost soul wasting his talent until TS came around and turned him in to a great is a nice story but we'd had 8 years of constant demands for him to be in the GB team, coaches being bagged out for ignoring him because the general consensus was Briers was the only player with the spark that could hurt the Aussies.

Yes he was erratic in his early days but by the time TS came, although Warrington as a team were inconsistent we had 3 players who did the business every week: Briers, Paul Wood and Westwood.

Briers going to Saints, Wigan or Hull maybe but Barrow nah. Bit like how Cunningham was supposedly going to Rochdale Hornets when Hanley was at Saints.

I don't know how Briers can be compared to Sandow. If Sandow had managed 17 seasons at one club, stayed fit nearly all the time, led them to three major trophies and been their all time top point scorer he would have a different reputation.

I would add Adrian Morley, LAnderson, VAnderson, Gleeson and Hicks to that list too.

Monaghan and King were still "settling".

Yes mate. Briers was a hairs breath off clearing his locker. It did come down to LB begging TS for a reprieve.
.....your memory of LB Sally always mind boggles me.
No deny his talent but one good game or the odd good thing in a game followed by twice ot thrice that of poor games doesn't spell consistency to me.

I wonder if Briers has maintained his resurrected professional state now he has stopped playing.

Based on last season I’d have to say No, people need to remember he was part of the TS, Agar coaching team aswell. Now before anyone as a go I don’t know how much if any influence he had on the coaching of the team, but if he only dealt with the halves well they didn’t learn much.