Had it been 100 meters rather than the 100 yards that it was Brotherton would have won. He was gaining on Jizzum for the last 30 yards and those few extras meters Brotherton would have won.

The difference was Jizzum got up to speed a lot quicker than Brotherton did.

And if the season ended at the end of the weekly rounds Saints would be the most successful rugby league club of recent times (in terms of the league)

There was nothing in it and when you watch the replay you'll see that Mr Chisholm started a fraction before anyone else.

The reason it didn't pulled back was we had already had two false starts and the Grand Final was due to start.

Exactly. You are catching on.

Dan Brotherton apparantly looked like a decent player, he scored against both Halifax and Warrington and looked extremly fast in the mans fastest race competition.

Well Done lad.

I'm good at this.

Its a shame it doesn't happen though, well it is for you guys.

Well it's good job it doesn't. Being a Wigan fan I'm opposed to all Saints success.

I know, it was just another example of the If such and such had happened then we'd of won

In a rugby context, it's how fast you get up to speed that's important though

Same old Leeds, always cheating



Phil Bentham was probably in charge of checking false starts so it would have looked level to him

Christ almighty!
Saints buy in a ringer just for this and we still cant win fastest man!

Another thing to note is Brotherton has only just signed for Saints from amateur RL so wont have the professional sprint training and conditioning the other runners will have had.

Hence it may be that with the right coaching he could be somewhat faster .
On the other hand at 6ft 4inches we may end up bulking him up to the extent he is 3 yards slower

Professional sprint training?!?! Nah not us, he will finish last by the time we have built him up.

It may be a bit pedantic but I cant see how you can possibly call it "fastest man in Superleague" if none of the players competing actually play in Superleague? It would have been like Cas entering Dwayne Chambers.

Surely it should be called "fastest man who currently plays RL for one of the Superleague clubs at u18's or u21s level".

If we were in America, I could sue someone.

Leeds have bulked Chisholm up, but retained his speed (still not a good RL player). The strange thing last night was watching Kev Penny twice get caught when he was clear.

As I said on the other thread Brotherton looks fast rather than quick, in that he doesn't appear to have good acceleration from a standing start, but can certainly motor when he gets into his stride, probably a bit more Pat Richards than Martin Offiah.

for me, the explosive pace is much more useful in a rugby context, you never have to do more than 90mtrs at the very most!

It is, but it is also about how players can sustain that pace

If they had a 30 metre race Rob Burrow would win easily as he's straight into top gear

My mate went to the nines and he said he is probably the fastest winger he has seen at Saints since Darren Albert,good news hopefully stay away from injuries.

To be fair if I signed I'd be the fastest winger since albert!

Can't really argue with that one mate.

I don't think it is called 'Fastest man in Superleague' but fastest in rugby league. Because players from championship clubs can compete too. I think Worrincy from Halifax competed amongst others this year.

Nah Kyle eastmond would blitz him.

He'd have to avoid breaking something first

watching wire u20s think it was against castleford or leeds and rhys williams just went for about 20-30metres left them standing. in rl it's explosive speed you need.