if only we had kept him and released john clarke, would be like having a mini mickey higham, so when higham went off for a rest we still had those fast darting runs from dummy half.

Er, no.

yer barred!

but i'll use this non-sensical thread to air a couple of thoughts from yesterday.

one, i thought briers looked like mong when he ran on the field yesterday.

second, don['t you think jon clarke should have told some of the nobbers that boo him and call him during matches to bugger off like king did. Therefore we possibly would've have a big swell of support for clarkey like yesterday.

Your havin a laugh with this.................................you are havin a laugh arnt you?????

Its not Aprils fool day is it?

Once again Clarke had a decent game yesterday but people still love to slate him. There were 2 lads stood by me yesterday who could do nothing but slag him off every time he touched the ball.

Funniest post I have read in ages.Will you be following it up with one about Briers and his awesome defensive display

Got to agree with Wires 74, this one is a belter

not a chance he likes beer even more than lb

Gleeson looked out of his depth and never made an impact in SL. He looks right at home playing for Fax in NL1.

one thing in support of clarke, he's a great tackler

can anyone deny that ?

his defence is good.

i just think gleesons pace at the ruck and darting runs would be better suited to our style of play than clarkes obviousness in attack.

We'd be more obvious if we had two hookers playing the same style, do you not think?

not really.

i find higham and glees unpredictable in what there going to do.

i find clarkey extremely predictable. its either a pass, or a slow failed attempt to break the line from dummy half himself(i.e yesterday, when he made about a metre from acting half, and threw the ball to the ground. was predictable from the stands.)

his defence is his strong point though.

Clarke tackles like a revolving door him and Briers would be best placed at the front of Debenhams

Quote ="wire 74"Clarke tackles like a revolving door him and Briers would be best placed at the front of Debenhams'" check out wires 2 top tacklers last season www.superleague.co.uk/statistics ... 09&hp2=263

Quote ="wire 74"Clarke tackles like a revolving door him and Briers would be best placed at the front of Debenhams'" check out wires 2 top tacklers last season www.superleague.co.uk/statistics ... 09&hp2=263

lots of people on here, some crap about him being 3rd man in after tackles completed.

I didn't say he stood out or that he had a great game, I said decent game. It just seems that people decided a while back that he was garbage and not fit to play for Warrington and people love to knock him at any given opportunity.

Floppy.

Just thinking, though, if the opposition coach were to be playing a defensive structure against Warrington, if they saw we had Higham and Glees, they'd plan to be defending constant 'jumps' from Dummy half for 80 minutes.
With Clarke and Higham rotating, or potentially rotating (as Clarke could slot into the Backrow), opposition coaches would need to plan for contrasting styles and different options around the ruck and, as a result, tighten in the A and B defenders for when Higham is on, creating space outwide.
On the other side, they'd perhaps widen the distance between the A defender and, say the C defender for when Clarke is on, as they'd be expecting a direct pass from Dummy Half. This could allow for Monas or Briers to create space on the inside shoulders of the defenders close to the ruck (see the 'X option' ball he favours with Gleeson and Westwood).
Variety is the spice of life, as they say.