Just watched his 'defence' for the first Stacul try again on SLTV and it as farcical as it seemed at the time - laughter seemed the only response. Running parallel to the attacker(s) all the way down the field and making sure there is always a gap of about 6 foot can't be easy to achieve! Synchronised rugby?

Just watched the SLTV thing myself, maybe we could enter a team in the olympics, syncronised rugby league.

A couple of things annoyed me watching that, apart from the butter knife defence
Why with the breakaway try did Dave Howell just stand there and watch the bloke stop in the "in goal" area and pause without grounding the ball, if he is messing about then hit him, look at Blanch, still made the tackle as we were grounding the ball, it may still force an error.
I hace seen a bloke stood in the in goal get picked up and taken over the dead ball line, if yr within touching distance hit the bloke and force him to ground the ball

Why would pryce not scoot? he is a bloody centre, are you saying its a bit far for him to bend down and collect the ball at the play the ball, he is meant to have pace, when you are under pressure in yr red zone, him going in taking a scoot or first reciever and hitting the defensive line is the sort of thing that lifts a team

I think people need to calm down on the Karl Pryce abuse.

He has 7 tries in 9 Games (4 of which were as a replacement)
Made nearly 700 metres
32 Tackle Busts
6 Clean Breaks
2 Errors
and only 8 missed tackles, thats less than 1 a game.

Just because of his size and build, people are expecting Superman.
Compare his stats to a certain blonde haired Aussie Import who seems to fly under the Radar when it comes to Criticism

Another dumb play, smacks off I don't really care!

You really dont get it do you. The purpose of a scooter is to quickly accelerate past the 2 markers and hit the defensive line behind where the markers are stood(ie hit "optimum" speed early). How fast do you think a 17 stone 6 foot 6 bloke will get to "fast" (optimum speed) from a bent over position?

As I said he would be better taking a pass from the hooker on the advantage line with a 10 metre run up-

Do you now see the difference? There are different types of speed- watch the Olympics next year and see if all the 100 metre runners run the same race!! So in answer to your dismissive comment no I dont think its to far to bend more he wont get going very fast, but for someone who knows nothing about rugby yes its to far to bend

Has he attempted more than 8 tackles ?

If you think scooting is give the forwards a rest, there's no reason for Pryce not to. Even if he doesn't get past the markers he should be able to get a quick play the ball, giving the next guy a better chance of making a break or at least getting a roll on. He doesn't even try, which is the point.

now u know why we have loaned him to u he seems disinterested throughout the whole game and struggles to have any impact. i think if u dont keep him he will be in the championship next season because we have cover in his position and have some good young lads such as ryan king in our reserves

I've said on a number of occasions that Karl Pryce is to Rugby League as what Audley Harrison is to Heavyweight Boxing.

Absolutely looks the part leaving the tunnel but has a heart the size of a pea.

Puts in a decent performance generally once every 3-4 matches unfortunately.

Funny old thing I know exactly why and when you would generally use a scoot, and yep mostly its a tool for a small agile half back, but once or twice at least a player like him should be coming in field looking for it, watch Howell and of they both put in the effort, even if its first receiver he would have to come in field looking for work
As for bashing the bloke li would love him to come good, missed tackle count so low coz if he does not commit to tackles then he can't miss em
We keen enough to knock clubb

Gooner how many tackles do the stats having him down as made