Must admit, thought the last couple of lines of Scarlet's last post had a whiff of Agent XIII

still dont know how that happend i was getting it for someone who went to the bog it was not for me

Full back can be a very lonely position at times, especially when your team is up against it.....always easier to lok better in a winning side than one under the cosh.....playing for a lesser side like us I guess there will be more down days than up.....

I like Mathers and think he brigs a lot to the side.....he's obviously not as poor as some are making out as he's had a great career playing something like 250 games at the top level.....played for trophy winning sides....continually selected by a number of very good coaches....

Hid defence is obviously the weak part of his game, anyone can see that.....sometimes I feel for fullbacks though, as once the defensive line is breached it's up to them, or it's more than likely going to end in a try.....the way I look at it, is it's a bonus if Mathers can pull off a tackle as the last line of defence.....he HAS done this in the past, but granted he aint the best....

He does bring a lot of other qualities to the side though....he's experienced, and one of the more vocal players.....a bit of an organiser.....I'd say his positioning for kick returns is good and more often than not is pretty safe with what comes to him......like ALL fullbacks he will drop the odd one.....more often when we are under pressure as a team.....and of course he can chime in with the odd try or 4 when we are playing well as a team and there's a bit of confidence through the side...

For where we are a Super League club though I'm more than happy to see Richie wearing the number one shirt.....think we'd struggle to get anyone else as good or better....

You will be surprised to learn that there was more than one person critical of how the club was initially portrayed. I have posted before that all our recent owners have done things that have been both good and bad for the club.

I fully agree with you here.
Am I correct in thinking that you have had many years of involvement in RL? As have I.
The trouble is that 'tryscorer' thinks he is the only one with such credentials.
As for the ' you can't educate pork'. Assessing him on his literacy skills. He surely is 'pork'.

Funny how two games against 2 bang average teams completely changes the sentiment on this board. Some people have short memories.

We don't know for sure but Ben Jones Bishop's future at Leeds looked uncertain so he scored 2 tries.
Speculation that Richie Mathers is going elsewhere and he scores 4 tries.

Is anyone else under the microscope??????

Average?!

Depends which way the winds blowing on any given day on here

I was being kind

Thats fair comment

Cats and London are below average at the moment, Cas and Hkr and Widnes are average sides

Next week is definitely shaping up to be a very interesting match. Looking forward to it knowing we can put some points on the board. I do think our defence will be our downfall as we have the players to score points but I question our resilience to defend our own line when facing lots of pressure. Our goal-line defence looks fragile and we've conceded some soft ones over the last few games. Sunday will be the litmus test against a very good attacking outfit.

Think I took that last sentence out of Stevo's handbook of cliches.