Great news well done Lee...

www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=21377

www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=21377

I'd keep him beyond too, he has easily the best rugby brain in SL, what he could pass on to the kids would be invaluable.

Can we not have him cryogenically frozen, and just thaw him out on match days. Great news.

Can I do that to Mrs FB, but without the defrosting bit.
But seriously this is great news, I am pleased for us and the club but most of all I am pleased for Lee.

[size=150It is time for the people at WBC to start thinking of a fitting permanent way of marking Lee's 15 years at the club when he finishes playing, in the same way that St Helens have done for KC. [/size

You cannot be serious?

Keiron Cunningham won around 19 trophies (I'm just guessing there) and is no doubt Saints most decorated player.

Lee Briers has won 2 Challenge Cups. Even by Warrington's history I'm sure that isn't all that special, I'm sure there have been players who have won multiple league titles and multiple Challenge Cups. (Late 40s to early 50s Warrington were pretty dominant)

Doing something like that for Briers now would have been like Saints doing one for Bobbie Goulding or Karle Hammond.

Maybe you could wait until Lee has coached the Wire to a couple of Super League titles?

Sad One, through your posts I have come to respect a lot of what you say and I have perceived you as a slice above the normal Saints glory hunter.

But..........You have let yourself down here my friend, too many glory hunting Saints fans can't see past all the trophies and accolades that you deservedly won and think that RL is just about one sole thing.

Marking a players 15 years at one club is not just about saying you won all these lovely cups so we are going to honour you. Its about paying tribute to a professional sportsman's time at one single club and all that he did and gave to that club and town.

This is not the topic to troll on please do not do so.

Saddened we as a forum have decided to honour you with always being on our board and not your bloody own. We have asked Warrington Borough Council to erect a statue of you, however, Ann Summers are doing models like you in their shops so there is no requirement for us to take the gloss of their respect for you.
Oh and dont give us the I'm just browsing rubbish. Go on a dating website if your bored. Just dont put a picture of yourself onit if you want a date

I'm not always on your board. I've only posted about 50 times on here in my life.

But anyway, this is what you get for being the best, everyone wants to hang around with you. This is where the big buzz is now.

you have probably posted on here 50 times this week.

no place like home i guess......

I can see where Saddened is coming from but also see the merits in celebrating Lee Briers but only when he has retired. To be honest erecting a status of a 30 something year old who up until last October was still playing the game was OTT in my opinion

. Statues usually celebrate the works of people no longer with us. Granted KC was a great one club play player and achieved lots in the game but in comparison would Man U erect a statue of Ryan Giggs or England a statue of David Beckham, both in the twighlight of their careers. I don't think so.

I'd agree on the timing. The timing of KC's was strange. Why not just wait until the new stadium and put him outside that, or incorporated into the wall?

So are there plans to move it when the ground opens?

That's a lie. A quick look over your post history shows a good 58 pages worth of posts. With each page having 15 posts that would make your posts on the Warrington board go to around 870, so you're wrong there!

HTH

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Well chuft with this, especially now he can tackle

, honestly thoroughly deserved

Just shows how intersted he is in the Wire



Anyway back on topic, well done to the club and Lee on the 1 year extension.

Back on topic too, I think it is a great deal to go through, especially with him playing as well as he is. Just read on the Sporting Life article that he was offered 2 year deals elsewhere. I would have a guess that if he wants to carry on after 2012 then he will probably be signed by Crusaders/Widnes for a year with him hopefully coming back to us after that to be a coach if required.

This is excellent news

Pleased for Lee plus it's good to get it sorted out early in the season. He has deserved the deal to be fair. Briers had been outstanding at times under the Lord Tony Smith.

Best place for all stains players incorporated into a wall

It would fall down if they used the current players.

Lee is quoted on Sporting Life saying he turned down 2 year deals with other Super League teams to stay near Saddened!. I wonder who the other interested parties were?

Not one to do this by choice, but to draw a football analogy.

Gary Neville has won 90000000 trophies with United.
Matt Le Tissier won nothing with Southampton

Who was the better player? Le Tissier turned down moves to a bigger club and became a legend at the club he gave his career to (despite winning f'all). Imagine, if after ten years, he was still there. After years of being crap, the team are no longer w*nkey. That's what Briers has. Eastmond will never have this, neither will Graham.

If you wish to compare the impact the two players have had on the respective teams, I'm not sure which side I'd come down on. Again, if you wish to argue who is/was the better player, I'd probably go with KC. But please, please the argument has to be more intelligent than number of medals, surely.

So to summarise; There is no doubt that the team KC played in was a great team, second only to the Wigan one that caused me so much angst in my teenage years. Both were full of quality players who were surrounded by quality players. But Briers had something extra, he was good even in a poor team. I'm going to stick my neck out here and say he is probably the third best player I've seen play while watching Warrington.

As a fan was introduced during and watched the height of Bullmania (early 2000s). I think a lot of people like me and maybe some others (considering how long Briers ahs been here) are taking for granted how good he really is. I could be well off but I, like, I believe Yed, and several others, contend that he has the best rugby brain in Super League and will really be missed when the time comes for him to move on. I can't think of anyone who could slot into the team and replace Briers.

good post. FB was stating his significance and devotion to a club, the side's success (or lack of) is irrelevant, KC would still have been a ST H great had they not won the titles that he had, he led the side and gave his career to the club, the difference here is that KC was from StH, wheras Lee was from, er, St Helens not Warrington, but we recognise Brian Bevan as a Wire great and he wasn't a Warringtonian ever. So I am in favour of recognising Lee's efforts, but not for a while yet, let's just recognise his efforts from the stands for now and give him a song on Sunday?