Quote ="Latchford Wolvesfan"Ben Harrison is a Second Row/Prop.... he played LF last year as Vinnie Anderson picked up an injury and unfortunately for him couldn't regain his place when he was fully fit.'" not according to 'the offical' hes isn't... warringtonwolves.com/13-ben-harrison-9 the bottom bit.

Quote ="Latchford Wolvesfan"Ben Harrison is a Second Row/Prop.... he played LF last year as Vinnie Anderson picked up an injury and unfortunately for him couldn't regain his place when he was fully fit.'" not according to 'the offical' hes isn't... warringtonwolves.com/13-ben-harrison-9 the bottom bit.

Mathers for FB - I prefer Mathers to Riles at FB. Riles to Mathers on wing.

Ben Harrison Prop???

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

Because Harrison was playing so well at loose forward.

Class player, as I have been saying for the last year.

Im still Struggling to think when he has ever played prop?

and this pre-season he's been keeping the spot warm waiting for the Kevin Sinfield signing to be announced?

Do you know why we let Sinfield play for Leeds on Friday? It would have been a disaster if he got injured for leeds and missed all our season. I assume his signing will be announced in the Guardian on Thursday ready for our season to start.

Quote ="Paul Youane"and this pre-season he's been keeping the spot warm waiting for the Kevin Sinfield signing to be announced? Do you know why we let Sinfield play for Leeds on Friday? It would have been a disaster if he got injured for leeds and missed all our season. I assume his signing will be announced in the Guardian on Thursday ready for our season to start.'" Another one derailing threads with the Sinfield subject.... if you need my answer then ive replied on this one before it was locked... viewtopic.php?f=21&t=442659 .

Quote ="Paul Youane"and this pre-season he's been keeping the spot warm waiting for the Kevin Sinfield signing to be announced? Do you know why we let Sinfield play for Leeds on Friday? It would have been a disaster if he got injured for leeds and missed all our season. I assume his signing will be announced in the Guardian on Thursday ready for our season to start.'" Another one derailing threads with the Sinfield subject.... if you need my answer then ive replied on this one before it was locked... viewtopic.php?f=21&t=442659 .

Since when were you a mod Latchy?

It makes me laugh that you talk of derailing threads, yet you are talking about the lock position on a full back thread. Baffling.

I've made one comment in reply to somebody that was on about the LF position, it's hardly a complete change of subject is it and I'm not pretending to be a mod just giving him some useful advice

What do you think about Mathers at Full-Back

My point was, you can't expect a thread to stay on the entire topic, otherwise most would only be a page or two long. Threads drift and, to be fair to Paul, he was replying to your views on the LF position.

I'm not too fussed, really. Ideally, we'd have Brett Stewart there with Hayne as his back up, but that's fantasy stuff. I think we have a solid backline, Mathers is a solid player, sure, he could be better, but he's a marked improvement on Reardon IMO.

Yea ill give you that just not sure he's up there with Brent Webb, Clint Creenshields and Brett Hodgson in what i think is a vital role within the team.

To be honest, it seems that every position on the field is becoming a key position, even the interchange players are considered 'key' in changing a game. As nice as it would be to have the league's top players in every position, sometimes you have to accept a lesser player for the strength of the rest of the team. Mathers isn't poor by any means, I'm happy with him, we could improve but we could be doing much worse. We have a committed player who the coach likes a lot, that'll do me.

Its you who changed the subject to another thread.
QUOTE...
"Its the one area of the team i would say we are weak,then again i would also say we lack a decent LF"

The post you quote me in was my first post on this thread. HTH.

Im sure Bradford at home last season he played prop, could be wrong.

Ben Harrison is not a prop, he is a loose forward. FACT.

Exactly.

Mathers is 'value for money' isn't he. You want an explosive fullback who can do special things, pay the cash, but it'll take a serious chunk of your cap. You want a bloke who'll give you 100% every day that he wakes up, and do the best he can, you get Mathers.

Reardon wasn't value for money for us. Now, on a small deal, as a winger for Bradford, I actually think he could be a decent under the radar little signing, it's all relative.

I didn't say he was but he has played it

Sorry i was meant to be quoting LW's posts.

Jesus it's like 1984 on here these days.

Doubleplusungood.

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Mathers is a solid full back. Returns the ball well and is a good talker in defence. On the negative though, he is capable of a brain fart as mentioned above and he does lack the pace of a Webb or Greenshields. If he were to get injured id like to see Bridge get a go there, as he could play as the 3rd half back in attack like Webb and Hodgson do. But Riley seems to be the back up full back, and he hasnt let anyone down when hes played there. But we do seem to have alot of options this year, which for many years has been out downfall.

He steps into the line well, he marshals the line too and is always very vocal, which is a good quality for a fullback as he's the one that sees the bigger picture positionally. Goes down easy, I'm guessing so that he can play the ball faster and odd lapse in concentration but can't ever fault his effort and enthusiasm.
I like Mathers, i think he should be given a vice captain role.