Watched him for budfud, thought yeah he's got the brains to play 9,could be a very important signing.Knows how to play SL 9,unlike Hinchcliffe who is a SL 13 or he is nowt.

There are still a few rough edges to O'Brien's game. Lowes decision to have him play 80 minutes in 2015 (and get racked in the head at least once a game) backfired in 2016 when he wasn't nearly as effective but then neither was the rest of the team. His passing from dummy half can be a little erratic but he's got a good brain and good instincts for the role. The lad deserves to play in Super League and possibly beyond that to the NRL

wont be asked to do 80mins here, think he will share the roll with leeming

gone out on loan to halifax for a month

bit surprised really when he didnt play game 1 at widnes but then again he didnt really perform in the 2 pre season games i saw him in

looks like we are sticking with hinchy in this hooking role!

I'd like to think we offered Bradford the chance to take these two, and maybe others, to help them out

don't understand this decision at all hes a cracking player

On last night's performance, I think we signed the wrong O'Brien lol

Boom, quality signing for Fax. I do think that Huddersfield will be in the bottom 4 with the team they have so its a complete surprise for us to be able to bring in a player of AOB's quality. Great news as well for Fax that 2 of Huddersfields better players last night were their hookers so hopefully that will continue and we can get him for a bit longer.

Just listened to the post match interview with stone. He was asked about Adam Obrien. "We were looking to use him game one with hinchy at lock" "It was a difficult one, he didn't come here to be a trained professional" "the dual reg with Oldham wasnt going to be adequate" "he had to go to Halifax for a moth to get some game time" " hopefully he will come back into our squad in the future " don't know what to make of that?

yeh hard to understand

obv hasnt impressed enough to get in the starting 17 , nows his chance at halifax

Sounds to me like hes been lazy in training and not done what is asked of him - sounded like Stone had intended on playing him initially...

Rick has always said he won't pick or keep players who won't buy into what he's doing, seems Adam hasn't been pulling his weight either then !.

Hard to understand wh if he's been given his chance he hasn't lept at it. Unless he was hoping to be picked up by someone that would play him first choice. At the stage he was selected everyone would have a settled first and possibly second choice hooker.

I'd imagine his nose has been put well out of joint that a younger less experienced player has been picked over him. Leeming has come on leaps and bounds in the last preseason and fully deserves his spot. Hinchcliffe prefers loose, stone prefers Hinchcliffe at loose- all suggests obrien hasn't done enough to show he should be at 9.

i like hinchcliffe at loose better still if he could pass to the correct team. saying that there was very little coming from the back row in attack last thursday we need someone to step up and run good lines or ferris off loads

shame we have lost symonds

massive loss

Yes I agree- any news on his injury?

out for a 'significant period of time' according to stone

O brien scored today. As did Sam wood who got two for Oldham. They were unlucky to lose to London by two points.

yes brealey hugh loss . he was missed .

symonds out for 8 weeks

Has that been confirmed by the club yet?

A couple of fax fans at my work have said that obrien was excellent for them. Certainly the best player in their team. Good to hear I suppose with him for what ever reason not being utilised from the get go

Strange really especially when he had a rep at bradford for been a good trainer. must be something else.

Hopefully it's been a kick up the backside and he realises he has to work hard to get in the team, presuming that's the reason he isn't.