Stu has just announced he's signed a 2 year contract with the Huddersfield Giants. Best of luck Stu you gave it your all for Wigan I hope it work out for you at Hudds.

Agree entirely. He definitely appears to be a genuine honest pro. Shame his time with us was so up and down (he also spoilt things with his churlish response to the fans during our days of mediocrity).
Good luck Stu. It would be nice to see you bow out playing SL rather than retiring from injury.

Good luck Stu, see you next season!

He's done very well to get a 2 year deal considering his age and recent injury problems but best of luck to him.

Huddersfield have announced the signing of Wigan forward, Stuart Fielden. The 33 year-old will link up with his former Bradford teamate, Paul Anderson after signing a two year contract. READ MORE ON THIS STORY....

Huddersfield have announced the signing of Wigan forward, Stuart Fielden. The 33 year-old will link up with his former Bradford teamate, Paul Anderson after signing a two year contract. READ MORE ON THIS STORY....

As revealed here: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=539038&tsmp=1350054192

As revealed here: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=539038&tsmp=1350054192

Interesting what Stuart has to say here.... bit.ly/Q5YOUr

Interesting what Stuart has to say here.... bit.ly/Q5YOUr

ANOTHER 'exclusive'

He should have gone to Hull FC, they would have paid top dollar for a player as young as he is.

Good luck to him, hopefully a fresh start form injury and a fresh club will give him the chance he needs, not a Wigan crowd looking back 2-3 years.

Given all the experience that has left our club I'd have offered him a two year deal here. The fact he has had the injuries is low risk because if he had to retire if they re-occurred he would not cost the club his salary on the cap anyway.

I will never forget his arrival in 2006. I was amazed he came to what appeared a sinking ship and his presence lifted the crowd on his début to levels not often seen at the DW. It was fantastic.

yeah , me too

we havent got the 'old head' up front now , but whats gone is gone

good luck stu

Still think its a bad idea given our lack of experience at prop and the overall loss of experienced players. I'm sure we could have come up with a sensible offer, ie a 2 year deal with the second year based on how he performs in the first year of the deal.

Sinking ship or not it was still Wigan and they had still just recruited the coach that had won three SL titles in the past five seasons. Even if Fielden and Noble didn't work out as well as expected sometimes you need to make statements that you aren't going to accept your fate and slowly wither away and die. It was a similar story with us and Gleeson, Johns etc, even though they didn't win trophies, we were signalling our intent.

Wigan, through disastrous recruiting, were a complete basketcase at the time and had some momentum not been restored by big statements like Fielden who knows what would have happened to Wigan.

I have always liked Fielden, its a shame how the second half of his career he has just been a bog standard SL prop when he was one of the elite players of the game in his early days. I remember a warning in Mal Reilly's book though (written in about 2000) where he said he saw how a young Stuart Fielden and Martin Lang were playing the game and wondered how long their careers would last given the way they played and the punishment they took. Martin Lang retired in his mid 20s and Stuart Fielden lost his edge. But RL fans shouldn't forget how good these players were, Fielden at his peak was not far off world's best prop.

Stu was an animal in his mid 20's and was IMO better than any British prop since.

He had it all with pace, aggression, excellent engine and was not afraid to mix it when it was on.

Every time he was tackled, he would get up and cock his fist



The thing is, even though it was possibly just him trying to gain a psychological advantage over the opposition, generally it worked (with two notable exceptions

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The beating he gave Jason Smith (who was no shrinking violet) was cruel and he got the better against Barrie Mac on a couple of occasions.

Half the reason that the Bulls v Leeds games were so good in the early to mid 2000's where because of these two nutters trying to kill each other.

There is also a picture knocking around somewhere of GB v Aus during a scrap (think it would have been around 2004) and the ockers are literally receiving blows across the whole pic from the like Fielden, Macdermot, Peacock, Morely etc.

Those where the days. Granted the still scored more points than them, but at least we would knock them around for 80 first

The Fielden saga has been a joke start to finish, he is lucky to land a two year deal at the Giants, from our perspective they have wasted a lot of time and resources on him.

We won a Grand Final with Martin Gleeson.

It's a shame Fielden had to go to Hudderfield. He deserves better than than to go to a club where RL players go to die.