With Richie Mathers what you see is what you get, he has enthusiasm by the bucket load, he does some very good last ditch tackles where he holds players up over the line on a regular basis and he marshalls the defence well.

His achillies heel is the blonde moments he has, they have been with him throughout his career , he is a massive improvement on Stuart Reardon but you will always feel that a blunder is not far away, thats the package you get with him.

leave mathers alone..he won me some money at wembley....

leave the guy alone. it's a team effort not just individual players. they should be backing each other up...


however very pleased with last nights game. they played their all and Tbf the score line does not reflect the effort the lads put in. it was always going to be a tough one but they played for the full 80. i also thought all the young ones had a very good game as well.

bring on the quins! lets sing our hearts out for the lads !!!

He carried strongly last night.

It was a night when really, communication between him & Briers broke down. I guess the lack of preperation shining through, that's all.

Having only one halfback last night, he had to chime into the line and link with Briers, it just didn't look polished at all, but there's no big dramas with it, he adds alot to what we do, he's well in credit during his time here.

I look forward to next season immensely, all the talk has for the last couple of years has been about our pivots, I think we're strong in these areas now.

Fullback - Mathers.

Halves - Myler & Briers (Grix third choice), then your into Clarke, Bridge, Monas, probably that order.

Hooker - Monas (Then Higham, Clarke.)

LF - Probably Harrison or Grix, with Vinnie & Clarke as options.

I genuinely like what we have, alot.

wheres my mathers thread gone??

Deleted I imagine as you talk out of your backside

Really and pray tell what Mathers has brought to us,that has made us a better team and improved our league position.

Wigan supporters are totally obsessed with Mathers (Challenge Cup 2009 winner and try scorer). Every game they create a new topic in desperation to assure themselves they did well out of the Gleeson exchange.

They did do well out of it, but not as well as us.

So you belive that the purchase of one player can improve our league position?

Deary me today.

Mathers is a specialist full back. He carries the ball well, he can be used as another halfback running into the defensive line and giving us more attacking options.

But hey, if you want to blame him for us not making the playoffs, then that's your choice.

Personally, I feel that you're talking crap.

Glorification?

Good grief, I've not seen any glorification on here. Christ, it's not as if people are touting him for Man Of Steel now, is it??

I've been impressed with the turnaround since he's joined us. When he was at Wigan, he wasn't very good. Too many errors, he was a constant head hunter. Tomy Smith has given him confidence. Fair enough, he's still prone to the odd error here and there, but no-one is perfect.

I think people on here have seen that turnaround in form and are commenting on it. There is no "glorification" going on.



Possibly yes, but when was the last time that we had a specialist full back?



Well, obviously. Mathers is not the best full back in the league, that would be crazy to say so there is going to be others who are better than him at certain things.

There are no pictures of Lee Penny ANYWHERE!!!

I still don't rate Mathers that highly. I think the team can do better.