Nobody should have a statue when they are still alive. Its creepy.

He has played in some SHOCKING teams though.

I think that most of us are of the same opinion. It's only towards the end of his career that Lee has really knuckled down, however you could also go back 10-12 years and look at DVDV and Steve Anderson who both tried to replace him. DVDV brought in Walters, Blakely, and Georgallis, whilst Anderson tried to turn him into a fullback and brought in Tommy O'Reilly, who had spent the previous season at Bramley. We're very fortunate that he didn't spit the dummy out and leave then.

Of course he has, but that sort of points to him underachieving. A player possessing that much skill should retire with a garage full of accolades and achievements, when you look at him now, you can't help but feel a little sad that a player of his quality has spent so much time playing in some shocking teams.

Briers, to me, is a bit of an enigma.
Had Lee not 'spat his dummy out' at Stains, because Goulding took his place at Wembley, after he helped get them there, who's to know what halfback partnership he'd have forged with Long...possibly one of the best of all time????????

At Wire, he's been a bit of everything
Awesome
Lazy (at times)
Unfocused
Too fond of the beer (and fags), see even upto a few weeks back, in Oz
injury prone (those 2 weeks out injuries, suddenly mould themselves into 5 weeks out)

Would I swap him...never, I just wish we'd have had Dr Who's TARDIS in 1997, where we could have had Smith's (current) wisdom, inputted into a young Briers brain....oh those wasted years GGGGGRRRRRR.

Maybe it made him hungrier undr TS. Watching him in 2009 at wembley, he was the best man on the field (slightly better than monas) and in 2010, I have never seen a hungrier player. Everything worked and he made leeds (the champs) look shocking.

Would he had delivered for us on the biggest stage without those wasted years?