: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:11 pm  

Meyt N Prater Pie wrote:

Fielden. Good signing on paper. Awful in reailty when you think about it

Yea, now. But at the time it was the signing of SL. Whelan had done it & Fielden kept us in SL. Nobody could have predicted what has happened since then.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:11 pm  

RB wrote:

Hopefully Fielden will be shown the door when Nobby leaves.

Contract up at the end of this season?

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:12 pm  

wiganrlforever wrote:

Contract up at the end of this season?

2010.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:12 pm  

Henry Paul - well English for Rugby Union anyway

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:13 pm  

AJ wrote:

Fielden kept us in SL. .

you say that like he did it single handedly. Brian Noble and Michael Dobson kept us in superleague. Fielden helped. The biggest reason we stayed up was binning Moran

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:17 pm  

Its ok slating Fielden but the amount of pressure on him to play at the top of his game every week is immense. He has very little back up other than Feka for 15 mins and then 2 kids and a very average at best Andy Coley.

I bet if Fielden was in the Saints or Leeds team he would be superb again. Too much is expected of him and thats exactly the reason everybody bar IL said we needed at least one more very good prop.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:17 pm  

Fact is, Dobson, Noble, Fielden and Lindsay all kept us in SL.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:18 pm  

Meyt N Prater Pie wrote:

you say that like he did it single handedly. Brian Noble and Michael Dobson kept us in superleague. Fielden helped. The biggest reason we stayed up was binning Moran

Fielden was more influental than Dobson, he brought leadership, enforcement and go forward.

Dobson in terms of kicking was superb, but that was the main thing he offered.

Noble was outstanding in galvanising.

Moran

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:19 pm  

Red Hot Jalapeno wrote:

Its ok slating Fielden but the amount of pressure on him to play at the top of his game every week is immense. He has very little back up other than Feka for 15 mins and then 2 kids and a very average at best Andy Coley.

I bet if Fielden was in the Saints or Leeds team he would be superb again. Too much is expected of him and thats exactly the reason everybody bar IL said we needed at least one more very good prop.

Exactly.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:19 pm  

Red Hot Jalapeno wrote:

Its ok slating Fielden but the amount of pressure on him to play at the top of his game every week is immense. He has very little back up other than Feka for 15 mins and then 2 kids and a very average at best Andy Coley.

I bet if Fielden was in the Saints or Leeds team he would be superb again. Too much is expected of him and thats exactly the reason everybody bar IL said we needed at least one more very good prop.

Nobody expects that much of him. He gets dominated every time he runs the ball in. O'Carroll is outplaying him week after week.