Its a weird one, his stats say he is doing ok, not as much metres made but round about the same tackles and tackle busts.
But then again stats never show how important the missed tackles were and how easy or hard the metres made or tackle busts were.

Stats don't show everything i suppose.

He just hasn't got that aura about him anymore and his influenece looks to be nil which is really bad for us as we bought him for both of these.

I'd have expected 4-5 years ago that by the time he got to the age he is now he'd be having a Farrell/Sculthorpe/Peacock/Cunningham style influenece on those around him and leading a side but he's done and even young kids are smashing him around the place.

It's hard viewing at the minute.

Its like seeing Mike Tyson get leathered off Danny Williams or something like that.

I still expect Fielden to wake up one morning and look in the mirror and say to himself 'What the f**k is up with me? Im an embarrassment to my former self, Im going to grow some stones and show them who I am!'

Next game he plays he should just leather someone eg Ryan Bailey or Peacock and he might get some of the respect and aura back instead of wimping out. All he needs to do is have a few scraps and he will get what he had back.

Stuart Fielden

Wigan

Stuart Fielden


Position 8
Shirt number 8
Appearances 24
Tries 0
Try assists 0
Goals 0
Drop Goals 0
Meters 2397
Carries 333
Tackles 584
Offloads 28
Attacking Kicks 1
Runs from dummy half 1
Tackle Busts 68
Marker tackles 50
Clean Breaks 0
Forty twenty 0
Kicks in general play 1
Missed goals 0
Missed tackles 31
Errors 12
Penalties 17
Red cards 0
Yellow cards 0





8 Position
29 Shirt number
28 Appearances
7 Tries
1 Try assists
0 Goals
0 Drop Goals
3448 Meters
435 Carries
579 Tackles
60 Offloads
4 Attacking Kicks
1 Runs from dummy half
61 Tackle Busts
76 Marker tackles
14 Clean Breaks
0 Forty twenty
4 Kicks in general play
0 Missed goals
32 Missed tackles
22 Errors
11 Penalties
0 Red cards
0 Yellow cards


Just look at the meters stat.

My 87 year old one legged Gran could batter Ryan Bailey



Not sure Fielden could though at the minute

Exactly, Ryan Bailey is a niggly little get and if Fielden has anything about him he will go for Bailey and give him his dinner!!!! Make sure the game is on sky also so he gets extra recognition and really go to town on him and then he will get that fear back off the other players in the league.

No me & Fielden aren't related. It just bores me that every time Wigan lose. Its either Fielden or Lockers who we should drag outside Wigan Town Hall and shot.

The guy is playing in a young light weight pack with 2 average hookers, not to mention he is in a leaderless team. But because he is meant to be on at least 200k a year its his fault. TBH Roberts bombed 2 easy opportunities to score and then dropped Wilkin's bomb for Pryce's try no 6 page spread on him being 3. We also scoot over the fact that he is a damn good defensive player but because he can't hit the ball like Feka (who cant tackle), he is 3. We also keep using him as dummy runner as someone else has pointed out, his last 2 tries came against Bradford and if my memory serves me right where from about 5 yards out. As a team we dont use our big guys enough near the line.
Last season when we needed him and made him captain he performed, the season we where looking at relegation guess what? he performed.
This year i admit his performance hasn't made me run out and get his name on the back of mine or my kids tops. But although people on here dont like stats he isn't the worst player in the team. We need Fielden in the team, but we also need a better platform for the props to work off.

Stuart makes straight up tackles. Nobody can argue on that. He never hurts opponents. He can be a liability in defence when the ball is being moved about and attackers are using foot work. I thought Feka put some good hits in defensively v Saints. Stuart just cannot time runs or run into space. You cannot keep blaming the hooker. He has had what 6 different hookers? so you cannot then say oh it's Higham's fault. His running lines re just not very good.

Im not going to pass comment on that world class hooker Higham.
But you have to admit we give Fielden all the hospital balls. As a team we dont use our props well. The only one we let run on to the ball is Feka, but if you watch Feka normally gets it from TL not directly from the play the ball.

I've backed both when they've deserved it but Fielden just doesn't warrent it at the moment.

I think the big difference between the 2 also is that at best Lockers is an international class player whereas Fielden was the best in his position in the world and looked to be going onto be one of the best of alltime.

By his own standards Lockers has never had he alarming dip in form that Fielden has.

Fieldens fall from grace is the most spectacular in rugby league history.

But why when we lose is it mainly Fieldens fault?

Is he the reason when we win?

The word is escapegoat. He is an easy target because of who he was when we signed him and what he earns.

It wasn't his fault that we lost on Friday but he could have done more to help us win. He had a very poor game what ever way you look at it and to beat a team like Saints i think you need all your 17 to play somewhere approaching their best.

If Fielden had played towards his best we'd have blitzed them because his best 'is the best'.

He hasn't played at his best since his debut against Warrington for us though. He approached somewhere near it at the back end of last year but it still wasn't quite vintage.

Players like Fielden set such high standards that they make a rod for their own backs and live or die on keeping those standards up.

He's dying on his ar*e at the moment.