Yeaman

Quote: Mild mannered Janitor "
Quote: Mild mannered Janitor "Some of this thread is absolute cack.
Yeaman has a try return of 1every other game over a ten yr period.
Constantly leaves attackers crumpled on the ground, often winning us the ball back.
Runs the best lines of any centre playing when on form n team clicking.
Biggest weakness is getting his wing away, and that's been blown out of all proportion, Briscoe n Raynor have hell of a lot of tries from playing outside him.
Certainly on his day on of the better centres, and an asset due to his attitude.
Like has been said people hoping injury is true is ridiculous. Especially coming into Easter. Thought crooks got well looked after against Warrington. He come across ok on telly but there I noticed how much he was looked after by westy whiting n later Galea. We can't invest that much effort into one player constantly, probably the reason he isn't a straight starting choice. So we'll have to hope he comes good in yeamans absence starting against a huge powerfull hudd team!'"

The class half empty (or realistic ) opinion would say he jumps out for the line too often, missing his man and leaves his winger hoplessly exposed. His passing is neither accurate or well timed. I cannot recall any clean break he as made by busting a tackle.

To suggest he runs the best lines of any centre playing is fantacy. Martin Gleeson, on one leg runs letter lines, Ryan Atkins runs better lines.

Raynor and Briscoe would have 50% more tries if they had a centre who was good enough to put his wing away. Most of Briscoes tries are either self made breaks or from kicks.

Typical example of a "local Lad" player. Not bad by any means, but no where near as good as some would like to beleive. His principal contribution to teh team is that he is reliable in defence (when not jumping the line), he is as strong as an Ox and he will never give up.'"

Gleeson runs decent lines more about foot work though. Atkins mostly runs decent lines due to the play around him, yeaman would be truly prolific if he'd spent yrs at Leeds saints Wigan or wire.!
Jumping the line very very very rarely costs us tries. Because of his understanding with his winger to cover him. When 1st playing with Briscoe it did but they worked it out. Plenty of times he's smashed the attacker, n either injured them, forced error or turned defence into attack.
With a try scoring record like Kirks it's fair to say he'd be in the reckoning of a defender hence the space for Briscoe to score a fair number of his tries.