What utter bollox this thread is, Briscoe not interested blah blah

Only people who know nothing about the game would ever question briscoe's ability or commitment. best player this club has produced in almost 30 years

You only have to look at the service the likes of Hall and Monaghan receive compared to the scraps Briscoe has to work with to see why he's less prolific. If you put him into a top side he'd be somewhere near the top of the try scoring charts every year. He's also very good in defence (tackling and cover tackling-wise). His only real weakness is how he performs under high kicks.

Look at Charnley, Briscoe is better than him in almost every aspect of the game but Charnley out scores him every season because all he has to do it catch it and put it over the line because of the service he gets.

Yes, Rugby League is such a simple game isnt it?

At half time Briscoe was one of the last off the pitch as he was going around encouraging the other players as they went off. Hardly someone who doesn't care. Even if he does go to the NRL, and I wouldn't blame him for accepting such an opportunity, there is no reason to believe he's stopped trying. I despair at times for some of our "supporters". He was beaten by 2 plays, which when executed as well as well as they were, are extremely difficult to defend against.

Briscoe has flaws defensively and we know all about them, but I don't get the impression he is not interested. He had very few opportunities with the ball last night compared to Monaghan who had a high ball to attack after almost each set of 6.

Some of our supporters are as thick as two short planks unfortunately.

Tickle will be next for he abuse.

Briscoe did ok and should have done better with the 2nd kick, unlucky nt to score another world class try.

The high ball is toms 'achilles heel' and he was up against one of the high ball masters in joel monaghan,the other being pat richards,the way to stop the accurate kicking is to put pressure on thew ball kicker which we obviously failed to do

The TV replay clearly shows that Yeaman was mainly at fault for that try. Caught flat footed.

Was terrible defending for that try by all concerned....kicker had no pressure,Doggy out jumped Briscoe AGAIN and also had no protection (Whiting is a master at blocking) from Yeaman and was a lazy tackle.Was the only tackle he really missed...Lynch and Macdonnell also missed 1 for a try but where is the stick they are getting,as for yeamans trys...it is a new structure now with no Manu so he will have to wait and see how that develops.

Yeaman had a poor game by his standards i thought

I actually thought Briscoe and Yeaman set themselves up well to defend that kick, but the execution was poor. Both defended well for long periods and Yeaman in particular was strong on the first half. Just pointing out to those blaming Briscoe that his partner was at fault as well.

You won't get a thread about Lynch and McDonnell because folk like to have a pop at Briscoe - particularly now that it looks like he's leaving.

Yeamo had a shocker. Although I hate to see needless shifting around, should Gentle try swapping the centres while Crooks is playing?

He hasn't had a great game for a while now.

Said the same in another thread. Briscoe stayed on his wing, try was scored between Yeamo and Galea.

Big Fan of Kirk but has been poor so far this season, needs to up his game otherwise he could be under threat.

In the NRL he would probably have a centre who would make use of himself legally as an obstacle for the on coming opposition winger.

A lot of our fans have slated our wingers over the past decade for being poor under the high ball, yet not many recognize the lack of involvement from the centre in this area.

*see Keith Senior for details.

Absolute master of it!!!

Unfortunately some of our players don't seem clever enough to emulate this!

always been a big difference between RL and RU, the intelligence of some players is severeley lacking in RL