I thought Hansen was on about getting Moz back, didn't happen.

to be fair to fielden,he did alright considering the bashing he took last night and nobodys bravery should be called into question in what was a fierce match with plenty of big defence involved.

Great post.

Same Prescott who shat himself when Westwood went to tackle him.

It has been funny watching it back. In the first minute when Morley lost the ball in a tackle involving Fielden, Fielden was dishing out quite a bit of sledging to Moz. I think that was the worst thing he could have done. If he had said "sorry Mozza, are you ok fella" they might have gone a bit easier on him. Then again maybe not. When I look at his face after that tackle and then look at him later in the game when spilling a lot of ball there is a marked difference, strange really because I don't know what happened to him and I would guess neither does he!

Agree with all that and just to add a point i think all the 80 min
games he played at Bradford are now catching up with him,not
many get the better of Morley,Peacock or Graham but i think we
have a new contender in the making ,because Ben Harrisons hit
on Fielden was the one he felt the most(think he went off soon
after) if young Ben keeps improving at the current rate he could
be one of the best ever enforcers.

And it wont be long before the Aussies come calling.

only if it involves a swap for Big Sam

Well about 12m out when Hansen had literally just caught it is pretty impressive.

Has he ever considered 100m? With that acceleration he could give Bolt a go over 20...

Some of the posts on here about Fielden being a bottler are ridiculous. At the end of the 2006 season his Mum got diagnosed with cancer and died a month later. Straight after that he had to fly out to the GB tour, leaving his family to go and play Test RL. That was the tour where Willie Mason took a cheap punch at him off the ball. 99% of the people on these messageboards would have pulled out of that tour if they had lost their Mum suddenly, and with hindsight maybe Fielden should have but one thing he isn't is a bottler.

As for being a bottler because he signed for Wigan rather than testing himself in the NRL....what do you reckon of Tony Smith as a coach, he won two Grand Finals with Leeds and his brother is one of the most high profile coaches in Australia, he would have been able to get an NRL job just like Matthew Elliot, Shaun McRae and Daniel Anderson did, but he chose to come to Warrington. Does that mark him out as a bottler? Will he always be a bottler unless he quits us and takes an NRL job to prove he's good?

Fielden has proved himself at the highest level, he took on the Aussies in Ashes series in 2001 and 2003 and in the Tri Nations 2004 and was one of the best forwards in the series every time, he's been there and done it against the best so he didn't need to go to the NRL to prove himself. Jamie Peacock hasn't played in the NRL either, neither did Farrell or Scully but I would put them all more or less in the calibre of Adrian Morley as greats of the game.

Fair enough his career went on a downward spiral after 2006, as has been pointed out above he is probably paying the price for when he was playing 70-80 minutes taking some massive punishment as a young player at Bradford. Unlike Morley, Graham and Sam Burgess at the same age, Fielden's early days were in a Bradford team which relied on juggernaut forwards acting like battering rams to steamroller the opposition, you had experienced old pros lke Anderson, Jo Vagana and Brian McDermott coming on and off the interchange and then you had the young lad doing the same virtually all game. Back in 1999 when Mal Reilly released his book he said he feared for the future of young forwards like Stuart Fielden and Martin Lang because of the way they played the game....Martin Lang retired through injury about the time that Fielden started to go downhill, I think there was something in what Reilly had to say.

Fielden has got three Grand Final rings, two Challenge Cups and two World Club Challenge medals, a stack of GB caps and the respect of every forward in the game. His career has slipped from its early heights but he's still a first teamer in the team that's top of Super League so if that's how far he's fallen then he's not had a bad career.

Best post on any board in a long time.

Great post someone talking sense.

Excellent Post That,,,,

Can we add Macguire to the list please.