Let me get thris straight. Your convinced that a scrap with Bailey would make Stuart Fielden?

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it a scrap with Mason that hugely contributed to his downfall?

Stuart Fielden needs a good kicking up where the sun don't shine. I've always stuck up for him but it is getting to the point where its near impossible too.

After Fielden got floored off Mason he should have banjoed Mason and anyone else who wanted to join in and should have made a point of rushing in the big hit Mason and running at him all game and had a scrap with him if he wanted to and to get the same respect and fear off all the other players but no he wimped out.

The next game against Aus he should have done this but no he just acted hard and now opposition players laugh at him, have a look on the popular video sharing website, the Cas game is on and it shows Fielden getting owned off Mitchell Sargeant who is cack, the stats don't show how easily you got tackled do they?

Its like Chuck Liddell in UFC, once was top drawer and now he is getting pasted off everyone, his fight aganst Shogun Rua is probably his last decent fight and if he doesn't win considerably his career is finished. Its the same with Fielden, he has turned into a pudding and if he payed for Saints we would be laughing our heads off, he really needs to pull his finger out because it is embarrassing to watch our 'Number 1 enforcer prop' getting owned by every player in the league.
It would have never happened to Skerrett!

His Mum died before he went to Australia, what do you think was going through his head in that game. Thats why he didn't react to Mason.

As we saw last year with Peacock, when he p1553d off Fielden we saw the fire return.

Thats why he needs a scrap with some numpty who nobody likes, if he leathered Rob Burrow everyone would hate him, he needs to leather someone like Bailey or we are stuck with a carboard cut out player for next year.

You can quote stats saying he does loads of tackles but they don't show how important or easy the miss tackles were or how hard the tackles were.
You could say Coley makes loads of yards but he doesn't run the ball in hard to hurt or tire the opposition in the way Hock does.

Care to elaborate? Or is that the sum total of your contribution?

I would say it's obvious. For Fielden to get back to his best he should punch Ryan Bailey.



Call me a traditionalist but he could try running hard and catching the ball first before he invites another pasting in the fisticuff stakes.

Then again, I shouldn't be surprised bearing in mind it's coming from the man who said:

Bit light in the pack comparing you to last year, you lost Sculthorpe, Bennett and Fozzard with Gilmour going to centre.
You are lighter in the pack based on last year.

With the punching Bailey comment, it might sound silly and a hard line attitude but in a nutshell its what he needs to do, but you are trying to make it sound stupid with you do gooder comments, this is the toughest sport in the world appart from 'live bear and alligator escape from a straight jacket competiton in a cage'.

I would rather him get the fear and respect back the proper way but for the last 3 years he has been trying he has been laughed at and riduculed!

I take it you didn't see him wimp out against Crabtree, it made me feel sick to see a Wigan prop poo in his pants, he should have just snotted him there and then. Do you think the likes of Peacock and Morley would have took a backwards step? Neither do I.

I agree that Fielden does need to do the ol 'yed down n thrutch' but most people who have watched Wigan for some time will tell you that Fielden's at his best when there's a little red mist coming down. I recall a game towards the end of last season when another forward gave him a clout; Fielden's response was to slam everyone in the tackle and smash them in the hit-ups. He was amazing that game.

I don't necessarily agree that Fielden needs to go looking for a scrap but he does need to stand up and be counted when someone offers him out. He either needs to grow a pair or be kicked in what he's got if he's to be effective.

Was that against Wire? the game that kick started his good form I think. He was also good against Leeds when he had a run in with Peacock, when he took the next drive and got smashed by 5 Leeds players, didnt take a step back and had that look in his eyes was fantastic. A big factor in our strong finish to the season was Feka's improved fitness and Fielden's regained form IMO. He was extremely unlucky not to get in the England squad too

I was dissapointed when Fielden backed down from Crabtree the other week, if it had been a few months earlier he would of stood up but he didn't

Hopefully Ryles gives him a high shot early on so he gets his 'crazy eyes' but Ryles would probably put him on his before he got his crazy eyes

He didn't wimp out. He didn't know where he was and didn't know what he was doing. Nor did he get another chance to in the next GB V Aus game as Mason was suspended!



Fielden gets owned off everyone. FACT. Your suggestion he should 'thump' Ryan Bailey and then have a scrap with Peacock to get him back to his best is purely ridiculous on the basis that he'll get taken to the cleaners off the both of them.



He isn't our "Number 1 Enforcer", I think you'll find that title belongs to Feka. Skerret was heads and shoulders above Fielden and took the ball in as hard as he could and tackled as hard as he could. Does it not make sense for Fielden to actually try that?

This fella is an absolute disgrace. He is stealing a living. If he had anything about him, he'd knock on Lenegan's door, tear his contract up and offer to play for free.

And I'd still leave him on the bench even if he did that.

I watched him against Huddersfield having a bit of argy bargy with Crabtree. He totally cacked out. I don't care if he's eighteen foot tall, if I'm a prop and someone is getting in my face, there's only going to be one outcome. So, then, I'm watching him and for the next TWENTY FIVE minutes, he did not take ONE ball in against Crabtree.

Imagine what Kelvin Skerrett would say to him if he was in the pack with him. He'd be tearing him a new one in the tunnel after games.

He simply hasn't got the fire that he once had and if you've not got that as a prop then you're finished, imo. Loan him out to Leigh.

Absolutely sick of seeing him with his hands on his hips after knocking on. Get rid.