That's what i said four weeks ago.

Everything i complained about at the start of the year like Briers being dropped, poor defensive coach's, poor conditioners etc etc.
I was shot down and told im to negative about he club, four weeks later and everybody else is moaning about the same things

Ill be coach.

yeah i can understand everyones views what with Monaghan having played so many great games for us unlike Briers who has been poor for ten years.............

it makes sense to stick Moanas he's brilliant....

agreed, all i see Monas do during the game is feed Briers the ball, he needs to be given a bit more creative freedom. We saw what he can do with the delayed pass to Louis and the cut-out pass to Hicks which sent him away.

but briers has been doing this for years for martin Gleeson Ben Westwood Logan Swann etc.... but I guess if you close your eyes enough you can forget What Briers does and imagine Monaghan is brilliant.

Briers has done nothing for the past 2 years, irrelevant of what he done 6, 7, 8 years ago he shouldn't be guaranteed a place in the team because he once was a good player, the guy is finished and should be replaced.

Imo he was never a great player anyway, poor discipline, poor defense and compered to everybody else in the league poor kicking game, he's played with some great people like Langer, Johns and even Wood was better than him and yet he is still a liability, only plays the games he wants to play, constantly spits his dummy out (that's why he's here in the first place) and he never and would never get a regular Great Britain place for as long as Ive got a hole in my ar$e.

I would rather have Briers/Monas partnership than any other, what concerns me is we are limiting Monas creativity as all he is doing is feeding Briers the ball instead of working along side him

Am I not right in thinking that Briers did not play in several games at the end of last season when injured and I dont recall Monas being brilliant then either!!

Indeed, plus Briers didn't play part way during the season which started at Cas away but Monas came back for the next game but Briers didn't return against the Quins and had a shocker.

Briers is a half back, Bridge is a half back. Monaghan is a hooker. Play people in their positions (unless their surname is King)

Quote: Vernonwire "Briers is a half back, Bridge is a half back. Monaghan is a hooker. Play people in their positions (unless their surname is King)'" not this again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Monaghan

Quote: Vernonwire "Briers is a half back, Bridge is a half back. Monaghan is a hooker. Play people in their positions (unless their surname is King)'" not this again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Monaghan

I've never really wanted to see Monaghan at hooker before, I've felt that was to be avoided, but it's now obviously not working with him in the halves, and arguably his best form (over a sustained period) was at hooker for Manly so he needs to go there. If he doesn't go well there, we have two pretty good hooking options, so he can be told that he won't be in the seventeen, although I do wonder whether he'd be too bothered by that 'threat'. He may be a halfback, well no, he IS a halfback, but he's a halfback that isn't producing in SL right now, and hasn't for a long while, so a positional change should be tried, if this doesn't have the desired effect, he doesn't warrant a place in your seventeen.

In terms of the Reserves, they've scored over 110 points in two games, so somebody must be doing alright, one of our halfbacks must be playing half decent to rack up those number of points, get one of those lads training with the first team, as another visual aid to our incumbant halves, Lowes should be showing them that he is willing to give their jumper to somebody else.

Anybody know much about O'Brien, the lad that plays scrum-half for the ressies?

Maybe worth a shot on the bench if he's good enough, with Monaghan switching from 7 to 9 like Leuluai does for Wigan.

I honestly feel Monaghan has no passion for Wire...
I actually feel he doesn't want to be here..

It's easy to pick on the imports, but at the games I've been to this season we have been missing 2 (that's TWO) half backs. At least Monaghan has put some tackles in. Briers seems to think he has a God given right to play regardless of form, and in the past maybe we haven't had any other option. But now seems like a great time to look at other options, and I'd drop the petulant one and try other combinations. (But please don't let him go near the reserves - they have a good team spirit and we'd like to leave it that way!)