aye. he'd missed about 3 goal kicks prior to that though.

sorry, i forgot that detail, you just reminded me

i've got it written on the tape, wire wigan draw, briers can't kick.

i do that on quite a lot of tapes from the last ten years.

wolves of warrington v horses of london (crap)

wire v cas midweek (crap)

cas v wire(crap after midweek game)

wigan v wire 01 (opening night brawl)

bulls v wire 97(opening night massacre)


and so on.

Rauhihi Day ?

Gleeson Day vs Wire at HJ ?

etc ...

what was the game against wigan were toa was taking heads off ended up in a scrap with i think o'conner
our fans were awesome that night i lost my voice

the whole game 'van de veldes barmy army'.

We were relentless that game [fans i was full of pride as i took my mate for the 1st time to a rugby game
After the match (we got beat) i told him thats why i support wire because no matter what s--- people throw at us we will always have the greatest supporters

What is the title of that game TC ?

Having considered this over the past fifteen minutes, I have concluded teh following:

Having started this season like the proverbial bag of e, Briers has been encompassed in the general melee of our crapness. This generally goes against the grain of despite how turd we were playing, he always had a play in him to turn a game around (MM game against Huddersfield off the top of my head). As I said, the fact he hasn't pulled a game around has seen his stock fall, considerably. A victim of his own ability, if you will.

opening night brawl in 01? toa got sent off for hitting renouf high(allegedly) twice in quick succession, then nikau went crazy ape bonkers and got sent off, and a zillion behavioural letters got sent out.

The fans were awesome though one of the best atmosphere i have ever experienced pity we lost

A victim of his own inability to do anything more than sporadically influence games. I'm not ignoring his ability to break games from time to time, but top quality playmakers take hold of games and dictate them week in week out, Briers has never done that, he's always been a player who can come up with the odd good play and the odd good game. If he had been Australian he would have pottered around first grade for a few seasons then come over to England, the only reason he was so highly rated over here is because of the lack of decent halfbacks and stand offs, which meant in the context of what we had, Briers was one of the better options around.

The frustrating part is he obviously had the raw materials to be top quality, he could kick, pass and step, there was just something missing, which is why a succession of international coaches overlooked him and he never got signed by a top club.

Im going to make a dramatic U turn and get behind Lee Briers

He's still got a bit of Magic left in him

What has really grated at me is that he looks happy in his own little comfort zone. You sort of get the impression that if he truly commited himself to training and bought into the professional ethos, he could've been so much better.
Briers has always struck me as the last of the part-time, pub generation in the first of the full-time, Sport Science generation. If he'd been playing in the 80s, we'd be sat here now, I feel, lauding him as good as Gregory, but he seemed content going for his 'crafty cig' while the rest of the team were being flogged in the gym, which is an attitude I feel has let him down during his career.

I'm not aware of any player who dictated play week in, week out. Even Andrew Johns, by his own admission had some really bad games.

You can't blame Briers for being the only ball playing half back of his generation, but I do agree he could have been far more had he given that extra 10% in training.