Bit mad this Bridge stuff Rob, he was filling in on the wing, totally out of position and he did okay. If he'd had a 'mere from centre, you'd probably have half a point, but his last performance at centre he was sensational, setting up a hat-trick for Chris Hicks, and he hasn't played there since, he's been at stand off, even at Edinburgh, the best work he did, ie, make breaks was done in the 'centres channel' of attack.

As for the passes in touch, behind Hicks, I think you've just made them up ace.

The point I'm making is, he's had a mediocre first 60 mins at Hull on the wing, switched to centre, scored a try. Prior to that, he's looked a class act at centre, yet you seem to be bagging his performances at centre, but odd as the criticism you seem to have, is of his 60 minutes on the wing, unless you thought he was naff at home to Huddersfield at centre, or away at Bradford, when Hicks got another hat-trick. (Granted he was only involved in one of those tries, with great quick hands)

I'm not disputing whether we need a right centre by the way, just wondering where your criticism comes from, as if it's yesterday, I think it's a bit unfair, as he was playing in an unfamiliar position on the wing, and he did what he could, two trysavers too mind, one bad missed tackle granted.

Not really i have been waiting a long time for sucess 2-3 years isnt that long. I could wait that long if it meant silverware. Would be dissapointed to see chris edged out of the squad next season, think he's a real talent.

I knew your defence of HRH Chris Bridge would come at some point, it was just a matter of when

Your love for him holds no bounds, does he get flowers on valentines day ?

No matter what anyone says about any of Chris Bridge`s past performances you will always have an answer, i remember you ridiculing some posters in the past who questioned his performances at full back when he went through that spell of dropping most kicks that were put his way along with him being poorly positioned.

What would you be saying now if that was the challenge cup quarter final against Hull KR and we were leading by lets say 18-16 and Chris Bridge did another feeble attempt at a tackle a Hull KR player which lead to a try to knock us out of the cup the same as he did on Danny Tickle ?

It doesn`t matter where on the pitch your playing, your tackling technique remains the same, that attempt to tackle Danny Tickle was simply feeble and lazy. I noticed you failed to answer that point in your above post.

It may not have been poor passes behind Chris Hicks that Bridge made as come to think of it i`m fairly sure they were to Matt King as i remember King a few times having to reach behind him, a few times he just gave up as the ball flew into touch.

Wouldn't we rather we developed our own players rather than just kept signing from outside all the time?

Stick with what we've got, bring lads through the Academy, that will allow us to steady the finances and clear the tax bill.

Didn't that spell only last about 95 SL minutes, in which he scored two tries?

It seems to me your criticism of Bridge is based on a missed tackle on Tickle the other night.

scrum half and a goal kicker definitely

Just a thought but what about Diskin, he can't be happy playing 2nd fiddle to Buderus ?

We probably need a loose forward and we defiantly need a half-back but seen as those two places are already filled for next year, i go for two forwards.

I cant help but feel that when Morley is injured we lose some much needed strength/go forward in the pack, you could quite visibly see at FC that Rauhihi just cant hack the pace any longer and he defiantly is'nt a starting prop for when Morley is out. So id like a forward to replace Rauhihi and a younger British forward that Smith could mould into a quality player for when Morley leaves.

hes the worst 9 in the comp ,what does he do ,had a realy good run if you ask me .never been any comp at leeds at hooker before buderus came .

Not wanting to give fuel to the "Briers is the anti-Christ" brigade but surely it was him who missed the tackle on Tickle for the try. He was never Bridge's man.

Indeed it was Mr Briers that missed that tackle, to be honest he put in four good kicks in the 2nd half on Saturday, three of which forced drop-outs but even the biggest Briers fan must admit that his kicking game is a bit hit and miss at times and he doesn't deserve a contract based on the reason that his kicking game is good every now and then.

I personally see Briers and Myler almost on a par, regarding kicking game, influence on a team, attacking ability and even defence although watching a few Salford games the reds have left Myler out to dry on some occasions regarding his defence. The difference is Myler is only 19 and under the right coach (TS) is only going to get better.

I think Rob is pretty much spot on with his observations. We could do with two new half backs, we definetly need to replace Monaghan, his passing is shocking.
We need a prop to replace Rauhihi.
Hopefully King will want away at the end of the season, coupled with johnson leaving, we will need a couple of new faces in the backline.
Chris Bridge better or worse than Gleeson? I'd say both. He's a far better individual threat but is guilty of sloopy defending at times.
Not overly worried about the hooking situation but a strong running second rower would be good.

Your one eyed crusade to 'prove' points is tedious. You seem to have completely forgotten the fact that in a game breaking moment on Saturday, Bridge made a difficult try saving tackle.
No credit for that then?