Good solid player who always gives 100%. But international standard not a chance.
He is lacking at that level in his go forward, his pace and his ball handling skills.

Agree with stella. He is solid without being spectacular. Gets through loads of work, gives away the odd silly penalty now and then and can sometimes be a bit too upright going into the tackle. Will work and work and work all day though and having a decent season so far.

To be fair i thought Raleigh was up there with Griffin and Brown as our only decent players yesterday.

The problem is he is not ready to be a starting prop and comes behind the likes of Faalogo and Gilmour in the second row.

I prefer to see him off the bench as an interchange forward but he is competing with Eorl and patrick there .I would like to see all three of these on the bench with a hooker.


100% effort every game and a tackling machine but as the team has improved you need a bit more than that to be certain of a starting place.

We will just have to wait and see what happens when we have afull team.

difficult how to see Raleigh at the minute. More than a squad player but not in the starting 13 either.

agree with this

me too think you are right durham, also heard the same rumour about him going to bulls next year.

I hear that the bulls rumour can now be thrown on the scrapheap

Good, glad to hear it!

I need to ask though, I'm not trying to blow smoke up Andy Raleigh's jaxxi, but his tackling is consistent and generally above average, his runs are consistent and he generally takes 2-4 men with him in tackles and makes the metres.
Player of the year 2008 as well.

What does he have to do to get any appraisal for what he has achieved from the fans point of view?

Nowt are ya paranoid.

I think he has been up in the top 5 players this season. Really impressive!

Erm, yes you are! giantsrl.dnsupdate.co.uk/latestN ... Index=3418

Edited to include link to club's website.