giantsrl.dnsupdate.co.uk/latestN ... Index=2864 Is this the longest contract extension in history?

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BBC said 5 years. How strange

Dont know, but he is worth it.

Should definately be one of the props for England. Would love him in our Leeds squad. Big impact player. Like Feka but with quality.

Well I guess technically that would be true, as his existing one won't end till 2010.

Martin Offiah once signed a 10 year contract at Widnes with Doug Laughton.

It didn't stop him moving to Wigan a few years later after a lot of squalling to the press about the unfairness of his original deal that no-one had forced him to accept in the first place.

Agreed.If only Bailey could watch this guy and play half as good

Is that all it takes? Cool.

Best cancel training this week Brian and sit the boys down in front of some videos of the 1982 Kangaroos in that case.

Crabtree doesn't punch his weight often enough and consistently enough to get me drooling like some are.

Decent player though.

He reminds me of Wayne Mcdonald

Cant dissagree on that. But you cant deny he has been playing with pretty average players for most of his career.

This season he looks a different player and is punching his weight often. Difference is Huddesfield are a much stronger side and more professional than they have been previously.

He has, although IIRC he started out as a centre. He's made the transition well and i've seen him have some great games but also some where he was anonymous.

Not seen enough of him this year to judge his latest performances. I asked him if he fancied playing for Leeds at a function a few years ago. Smith was in charge and his reply was unprintable.

Avearge is a good word to use.

Because Crabtree was middle of the road fodder for years.

But this season and last he really has upped his game and developed a great offload game.

Maybe the rise of the Giants and Crabtree are inter-linked?

Had to read that twice as at first glance I thought you were talking about Bailey

Agreed - Though he was similar to big Wayne McDonald – not that much 'ummph' for a bloke of his size but this season he really seems to have moved up a level and deserved his representative duty IMO

Yeah.

Nice to see the traditional act of props developing later in their years is still evident.

I don't have SKy sports so don't see that many other teams' games, can anyone advise as to how good his defence is?

On attack, he is a good weapon, I just wonder what his workrate is like.

Pretty decent (considering he operates from the bench three quarter of the time) according to [url=http://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics_player.php?hs1=2009&hp1=172&hs2=2009&hp2=19&stat=tries&season=2009this[/urlalthough he's not in Peacock's league but that goes for most of SL.

Crabtree - Avg per appearance:

Metres - 103
Carries - 12
Avg/carry - 8.62 mt

Tackles - 19
Misses - 1
Efficiency - 95%

Quote ="Gotcha" Like Feka but with quality.'" www.superleague.co.uk/statistics ... eason=2009

Quote ="Gotcha" Like Feka but with quality.'" www.superleague.co.uk/statistics ... eason=2009

There lesser light Mason as far better Stats than the big Crab.

If you add in 515 metres, 60 carries and 95 tackles for the 5 games less that Crabtree has played, then his stats are better than Paleaaesina's.

Not seen anything special from crabtree tbh, Not seen much of Hudds to be fair though apart from the leeds games and he didn't stand out in any of those.

I bet Earl has done just as many minutes as feka despite 5 less games.

In the clips of Huddersfield I saw on the SL show he looked pretty impressive, at last using his size, weight and speed.
Could this be due to Nathan Brown's coaching and/or his conditioning staff?
If he does develop can only be good for England as well as the Giants.