In all honesty you can't just blame Bridge for the semi final defeat.....that was the day many people realised how poor the team really were. If Bridge's kick had come off he would have been called world class.

I wasnt blaming him . The whole team were rubbish that day.

Im just pointing out his kicking capabilities are awesome

As you quite rightly point out.. Bridge has the kicking ability of Heather Mills.

As a goal kicker he probably rated 5/10 on a good day.

As a kicker with ball in hand, he would be lucky to rate a 2/10

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I understand your apprehension but if we require field position if where defensively deep, I would like to see Bridge kick as opposed to Myler at present.
Mylers deep kicking game is poor at best at the moment. I would leave him with the short kicking game as Bridge wont be in a position for it.

Seriously I'd be the last person to actually slate bridge as a player but the fact he has to nearly stand still to kick in play would cause major issues

I dont know what % kick or missed Bridgey has but im fairly confident he's has a better record than 50% this season!

see, again i have to pick you up as being wrong, bridge's kicking game is shocking, he's visibly uncomfortable when kicking, and has only one kick which is this lofted backspin which is easy pickings for any wingers or full backs to get underneath and return.

I don't think you have ever agreed on anything I have said....until now.

Dont take it personal, its not personal, it just so happens that your bizarre revisionist view point on the career of Chris Bridge stands out quite noticeably and i feel i must call BS on.

And its not just you, we've had this with Padders on here as well. Who has called him rotten time after time after time, quite innaccurately as well.

If different things are not quite clicking ,such as field & tactical kicking you would expect it to improve with extra practice.

I haven't dished Bridge...? He isn't in the form of 2012 but he has the quality somewhere, I'd just like to see him given an opportunity to show it.

What does BS mean?

crikey when did Hull Kr grace old trafford with super star pairing Dobson and Burns...??

Michael Dobson was a stop gap for Catalan when they finished bottom of the league, he was then a stop gap for wigan While they fought off relegation. He got a full time gig at Canberra and finished in the bottom three. He then went to hull Kr and bar one season they have finished middle/bottom of the table. He has now gone to Newcastle knights as back up to a state of origin player in Jarrod Mullin and a young scrum half in Tyrone Roberts.

he's a "Stop Gap"...... we don't need one

if your ditching a former test and origin winger and a top class hooker don't replace them with journeymen like Dobson and Burns......

poor mans danny mcguire ......love off

He knows how to get a team around the park,great organisational skills,pretty good kicking game too.
Of which myler has none.
Burns i like quite a bit because he's got that fire in his belly, a bit of mongrel. Not scared to ruffle feathers, wears his heart on his sleeve.

And both good goal kickers.
not big time Charlie's,just grafters.
Worked for Wigan.

Chris Bridge at 6???..... - Why on earth should we do that?

Tony Smith has done many things during his time at Wire that could be considered a masterstroke, but one of his biggest was making sure Bridge never saw the stand-off position again and got moved to become a pretty decent centre (gained international honours after all).

Fair DSM.
I said earlier that he slipped in well at centre like whittle woods davis blake have before him.
It was imo because he was next to Briers be it at 6 or at 3.
They worked so well together. Briers would look for Bridge before he would would go left.