When Pryce is taking three men to tackle him and is first off the floor that's 3 players who can't make a tackle 'cos they are not 10 yards back.
One time he bust through three and the fourth guy got him by the ankle. Pryce again was first off the floor and Quins with four taken out were all over the place.
If Pryce can take that many with him and be quick off the floor, Tommy and Sam will cause havoc to any opposition defence and that's what we want.
Pryce is worth his place IMO, his fitness will come. We may need to play Gleeson elsewhere do to the number of injuries now.

Agree with this. Plus if he comes infield to help the forwards, he could be quite a handful... but as has been suggested, we need to see how fit he can get.

Fitness is definitely the problem with Pryce, not his ability. He can certainly finish, he is very creative with his hands, has a good short kicking game and can tackle.

But what is happening about his fitness, this stops him form showing his undoubted skills. Unfortunately he is not alone in this respect. I can't think of another Super League side with players as seemingly unfit as Pryce, Feka, Riddell and Tim Smith. I hear in an interview with O'carroll that he comes in early with Feka for extra training, but we are now entering the run in the the end of the season fitness shouldn't be an issue except for injury reasons.

Come on you conditioners lick them into shape PLEASE.

Pryce & Feka need a lot of work, but you would have thought this would be obvious to the conditioning staff.

What was wrong with Fekas fitness on Friday?

He gave Quinns a torrid time when he came on

He's an impact prop, he isn't going to play 60 - 70 minutes a game.

Yeah, he played well on friday, but if he was slightly more "in shape" I think he could improve his effectiveness. Do you believe he is as fit as he could be?

Take your point about him being an impact prop, but I still reckon that he is unfit even for that role. He would do much better by putting himself in deeper positions so he can gain some momentum, for no matter how big you are, you are not going to make much impression by getting the ball from a standing start just a few yards from the defensive line for the vast majority of the time. He makes much more yardage when taking the ball on the run but I just don't think that his fitness is up to that. I don't really want him to do 60 or 70 minutes but be more effective when he is on the field.

I agree that he much better on Friday though.

Maybe but I thought he was no more than OK against Quins for the minutes he plays.

In 2006/2007 Feka was far quicker, leaner and meaner.

He needs a kick up the backside.

Even at his current gross weight he's a good player but he could be one of the best props in the world.

When you look at pictures of him in his first season here to now you see the difference in him bigtime.

If he shedded about a stone to a stone and a half he's be so much better.

Thought Pryce was lazy for large spells of the game off the ball, and remember Sam T hanging off some guy in our 20 while Karl just loped past without giving a hand.
Hope he gets fitter and becomes the player some here seem to think he'll be.

used to watch him as a kid at bradford and fitness has always been his problem. 10 yards form the try line 9/10 he'll go over but don't expect him to drive it out from under his own posts to help the forwards out. He looked like he was fastened to a rope against quins. 5/10 yards from the touchline up and down the pitch. Didn't see anything that would make me want to see him get another contract.

You on about Feka or Pryce



For me in all seriousness thought I could see pryce filling a void in the pack at the moment with all the injuries.

His fitness is lacking and centre gives him the option to have spells off and take a rest.....Stick him in the pack (hes big enough) and he'll either sink or swim...hes got the size and talent to be a class player but i get the feeling you have to force it out of him with pryce....sticking him SR wouldnt give him an option to laze around and go missing and either we'd unearth a monster, or if he fails to perform at least we can properly find him out and get shut for next year