Thought he had a good game today - he didnt look 'unintrested' as he did in the friendlys, took his try well and made a few good runs, looked good in defence aswell.

Think he will come good for us

Was severley short of match fitness though, looked knackered everytime he ran a few yards.

I will agree with you mate, for about the 3rd time tonight I think that is



He did look good and looked interested as well. He showed signs of why we waited so long for him to get fit.

Looked as if he was trying to run off an knock in the 2nd half. I think he needs to work on his match fitness. Either way, I wouldn't disagree with anything he told me

I like the look of him, and match fitness will come.

Very big lad isnt he? Shoved defenders off him with ease at times. Think he would be a bettr centre in time though.

Which was?

His foot seemed to trouble him, but he was always gonna to feel it after 2 years.

With more match fitness, he will be a great assett for us. Him & Ainscough both have an eye for the tryline.

are you serious this time?

Well, I mean, if he had told her the Moon was made of Cheese or that Wigan played attractive rugby, would she agree.

I wouldn't argue with either to his face... I'd just cross my fingers behind my back agreeing with the latter

Well I would, as I wouldnt like to take a slap off the big fella himself.

Thought he went well. Looked strong if a little knackered.

You bein serious?

He look severly out of fitness to me. He did ok but god theres no way he would have played tonight had we had so many injuries.

Yeah im serious.

Course hes gonna look out of fitness he has been out of the game for years!!!! He was a positive from the match and took on the defenders and did well considering.

Doesn't punch his weight, or he certainly didn't when he was at Bradford. Too laidback, which is a shame, as he is potentially a great player. Remember seeing a Boots n All report on the Pryce brothers, and Leon hinted that Karl needs a boot up his jacksy just to make it down the stairs. Just the way he is.

He did alright tonight for a player below match fitness. I thought he looked pretty good all things considered. His ball handling was very good, he took the ball in and even showed a bit of pace. I was expecting far worse given the reports in here from the friendlies.

Both him and Ainscough had good débuts tonight but I doubt Pryce would have played has Richards been fit.

Dave

Imo he looked like he wanted to be at home!

Never rated him and never will another of nobles bum boys

My opinion is based on a Bradford game at Wakey, when on a number of occasions he was facing a winger much smaller than him (Wayne Price, if my memory serves me correctly), when it seemed like he all he had to do was run hard and the other winger had no chance. Instead, he shimmied, tried to think his way past him, by which time the cavalry had arrived. If someone would just remind him that he is a massive bloke before he takes the field, then he will do okay, but I think he forgets that.

Fair enough but as I said I think he did OK given he clearly isn't fit. We will find out come October. Mind you why he isn't fit is another question which doesn't just apply to him.

Dave

thought he looked ok to. he did look like he was trying to run off a knock as did ainscough . but once again only a few positives from what could only be described as a p!ss poor performance

Unless he's changed. . . he'll always look like that. Or be off the park with a knock. He's physically a big lad with heaps of natural ability . . . . . but limited bottle, IMHO.

Hope you guy's pick it up soon . . . but not for the next two matches or at least the match after next

Rubbish.

IMO he really really didn't want to be on the pitch in the second half - Limped his balls off, until he got the ball, ran it in quite good and then limped some more afterwards.

He punched his weight last night, knocking defenders off every time he took it in, bit unfit but that is expected, he absolutly creamed one of the Cas wingers into touch aswell. He played well I thought, one of the positives from the game. If he gets a bit of match fitness there is no reason he wont be in the England squad come end of the season if he carries on like last night, I was impressed.

Tbh he did a lot of this last night too. He seemed to want to step round people rather than going through them and ended up virtually tackling himself on more than one occasion. He did look promising though.