Yeaman is going through one of those patches all players have. He has never been a wingers dream centre partner when it comes to scoring tries but I`ll bet you you`ll never find a better defensive centre in SL at the moment.

Thats a shame for the Derby. he hates us and vice versa. Game just lost a bit of fizz.

Big player for FC on derby day, whatever his form he often turns up and scores a try

so who replaces yeamo? are both ben crooks and jason crookes still injured? do we play whiting at centre?

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.

Against Hudds he'll be missed as he is quite a decent defender, sadly attack wise he's average.

Good lad Yeamo - FC through and through and well deserves his testimonial. Decent club centre with decent defence but by no means impermeable as he misses a few as well as making the big hits - Turner did him like a kipper the other week. Plays above his size with a big heart and dangerous near the line but does put down a lot of 'bump' balls in that area. Lacks ball playing skill. Like I say decent with a decent try scoring record but not in the 'class' category. Will miss his black and white passion in the derby.

they don't keep going to him look at this season and how many tries we have scored down the right because at the moment the left edge is barring briscoe who keeps trying to make his own tries because he does not see the ball he keeps coming inside a hell of a lot more because if he does not see the ball he wont score tries which will resort in been down the pecking order for the england team something he wont want to happen

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.

rlHe's looked more like a forward as he's got older as well.rl

Firstly, it says that a few don't seem to. 1 thread on a message board is hardly going to be a thorough representation of a sport's fanbase. Secondly, I don't see any particular reasons to accept them as right.



Or it's possible that teams can't afford to leave Briscoe 1-on-1, because he's definitely one of the best SL has to offer in his position.



Which is fair enough, but bear in mind I'm not saying he is a top quality centre. All I'm saying is that he is a very good centre, and there aren't really many about who are better all round. Because of that, I don't see why he is a player people identify as one to replace if we as a team are to get any better, because the majority of options would be worse.



SL doesn't actually have many non-english centres of genuine quality any more. Moon, Lulia, Millard, that's about it. So being one of the better english centres still makes him one the better SL centres.

And I'm not saying you should be impressed by that. As in my previous comment I'm simply saying that as one of the best about, I don't see the sense in calls to get rid, unless by some miracle we could get hold of one of the half dozen or so who would be an improvement. (I'm not saying those calls came from you, BTW.)



Roughly how many better would you say there are in SL?

Off the top of my head from players that have played or are playing centre in SL, I'd rather have Goulding, Jones, Soliola, Atkins, Bridge, Evans, Ratchford, Watkins, Moon, Ablett, Cudjoe, Millard, Menzies, Duport, Shenton, Carney, Collis, Mellars, Marsh & Lulia.

IMO given the chance Rich Whiting would be our best centre from our current squad. Yeaman to me is nowhere near skilful enough to be a top class centre. There's probably plenty of back rowers who could arguably play centre and provide the same skills. His defence is usually solid but this season even that has been very suspect. Hopefully when he's back from injury he can turn that around but longer term I'd ideally like to see him eased out if the team/squad.

When yeaman missed games last year when he come back it was massively noticeable.
When on form a tremendous line runner, consistent try scorer, powerful runner, good metre maker, hard hitting defender and always a good 100% attitude.
Without sounding to personal that list is truly dumb. A few 2nd rows n then goulding? If kirk was at Wigan how do you think that would make him look? Cos goulding was a walk the ball over the line without a hand on him winger that's made good in the centre playing with a top team. And Mellars?!! Serious? He played his 1st game weekend. He is massively 4th choice behind Collis smith n Lyne at wakey as centre.
Yeaman has flaws but people seem to be forgetting about just how well he does the stuff he's good at. Has a good rep around the league among his fellow pros. A player opposition don't like playing against.

Own up - you're related, aren't you?