Re: Warrington without briers : Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:34 pm  

cheeseywire999 wrote:

I think today again showed what life after briers would be like

Get used to it, cos it ain't pretty, were still suffering from Faz leaving

Re: Warrington without briers : Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:37 pm  

Baked Bean Boogie wrote:

Get used to it, cos it ain't pretty, were still suffering from Faz leaving

That is a very good comparison.

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:28 pm  

Is it heck. Briers is nothing like Farrell.

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:48 pm  

How can Briers and Farrell be compared??...

Farrell is probably one of the last great RL players, Briers has been the catalyst for a fairly mediocre period in the history of Warrington RL...

Personally, I can't wait for the departure of Briers, not because I dislike him so much, just that it will end the era of silly threads like this.

There are better half backs out there who could replace Briers...unfortunately for Wigan, there have been no great leaders out there who could ever replace Farrell.

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:00 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

Is it heck. Briers is nothing like Farrell.

Why isn't it? When things were going wrong, Wigan looked to Farrell to pull them out of the poop, Warrington did and still do look to Briers to try and turn things round.

So why the heck isn't it?

Re: Warrington without briers : Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:30 pm  

Born 'N' Bread Wire 09 wrote:

Edited please watch your language, Wolfette mouth of to everyone u had a go at me b4 cos i sed summink like wire are poop wiithout briers cos today we had no playmakers to tell the team what to do and a hooker was kicking the ball for 40 minutes whats all that about

oi pick another avatar, copy cat

: Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:08 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Why isn't it? When things were going wrong, Wigan looked to Farrell to pull them out of the poop, Warrington did and still do look to Briers to try and turn things round.

So why the heck isn't it?

Farrell usually did pull them out of it, when the chips were down and Wigan were struggling Farrell could up his game and turn a loss into a win, when did Briers ever do that, never. Briers sometimes plays well when Warrington are doing well, and he will be instrumental in those wins, but when we're under the cosh you never see him take a game by the scruff of the neck and turn our fortunes around....Briers just lies down limply like the rest.

Farrell was twice Man of Steel, the ultimate professional, calm figure in a crisis, a born leader who took his team to Grand Finals and Challenge Cup Finals and sometimes won them. Briers was a talented but inconsistent player who had a spoilt attitude on the field spitting his dummy out at referees, and set a bad example off the field to his team-mates.

The good news for us is we won't nearly miss Briers as much as Wigan missed Farrell, because it is far easier to replace Briers than Farrell. If Briers' contract isn't renewed at the end of this season then I'll bet anybody that Tony Smith has a better player and person than Briers coming in for 2010.

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:53 am  

Dean Richmond wrote:

We CAN play without him. What bout Bradford away 2005?

Not to mention alot more games that season

True, we are a much better outfit with him, but we cant always rely on him. Especially when we have Bridge/Monas

Fantastic, you have to go back 4 years for a comparison to when we can play without Briers.

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:02 am  

Big Dave 3 wrote:

Fantastic, you have to go back 4 years for a comparison to when we can play without Briers.

Briers is quite consitent playing and not picking up injuries though

: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:09 am  

Wire_Yed_79 wrote:

Briers is quite consitent playing and not picking up injuries though

He's missed his fair share of injuries, without him, we've tended to struggle.