Phil Clarke says so ... [urlhttp://www.skysports.com/opinion/story/0,25212,12532_5457881,00.html[/url

I'm not buying in to the idea of players having smaller hands these days. People are getting taller and heavier, and without evidence I can't accept that despite that they have smaller hands.

Besides, most young players will have especially powerful thumbs developed from a lifetime of playing videogames.

Indeed not ... Especially if they have been using that cream you can buy in the advert pages of The News Of The World.

Well, you don't think it just makes THAT part of the body get bigger, does it ?

It's the cold weather.

Tell Ali that when e's carrying it like an orange.

I bet Darwin is s***ing himself

Phil Clarke gets stranger by the week.

Make the game more entertaining by making it easier...?

The reason we all get excited and amazed when we see a brillaint one hand offload is because it does'nt happen in every tackle and it takes a special player to do it. If the RFL use Phil Clarke's 'brilliant' idea of making the ball smaller we will see the offload all the time and it will simply take the excitement and skill level off it.



1/10

I refuse to read or listen to his drivel.

My balls are massive.

We should make the balls smaller and rounder, and there should be more kicking and less handling as well. Also, with less handling there would be no need for as many players so we should reduce the team size by… lets say two. It would also be easier if there wasn't so much physical contact, maybe just try and get the ball from the opponent by just using your feet.

That should make it much easier.



Fekking idiot

100% agree with that.

I thought the oft used Sky quote was "like a peanut"?

Of course, we all know from Barrie Mac's Thursday night coaching clinics in his commentary that the correct was to carry the ball is to grip it tight with the thumb.

Lad.

You know what to do.

Make them look like peas?

From somebody who dropped as much ball as anyone - theory and practise - do as I say not as I do!!!

I think Barrie had a good excuse.

I say make them even bigger, the size of like those "zorb" balls, Burrow would be da man in one of them

Taking a bit of air out of them seems an easier route, which would also have the benefit of reducing the effectiveness of kicking.

No he didn't.

As he offloaded with such propensity there were occasional turn-overs but he was no Thackray that's for sure.

W@nker.

Don't get me wrong, I was a big fan of Barrie Mac, still am in fact, but among his many strengths as a forward, his ball retention (whether from loss of control or unfeasible offloads) did occasionally leave a bit to be desired.

Therein lies the difference.

"Occasionally" is your phrase. Very different to how Serge described him.

I'd agree entirely with your summation, which must make you feel quite proud I'd imagine,

So you hate Barrie Mac and you think he was rubbish at everything ever?