[QUOTE=Rogues Gallery;563341]The awesome foursome. I'll have a pint of what you've been drinking.
Vagana, Fielden, Anderson and McDermott would have ate them up, spit them out and laughed in their faces. Then they would have brought Peacock on to extract the urine. [QUOTE]
Has anyone seen Rogues since 10.15pm last night ????
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I remember Saints playing at Odsal in 2006 (we lost) it must have only been a few weeks before Fielden signed for Wigan,I remember thinking at that game he didn't have quite the same impact as even the year before but you presume it's just a slump,he became an absolute shadow of his former self over the next few years. I think around 2010 he picked up a bit when he got a decent run but was never the force he once was.
Haha! darren Britt smashed the four of them and he was pretty much our only prop back then. That was a year or so after David Fairleigh had done the same. You may remember both games, they were both finals and saints won the two.
It's tremendous the way the goons on here show their true colours when they've had a shandy.
That year under Maguire he was excellent. Shame he got injured straight after the GF and we never really got a chance to see if he was getting back to his best. I think he only played once for us again (Vs Saints when McIlorum got sent off early on). And then he played a couple of times for Hudds and then had to retire.
His early years at Bradford he was one of the best props I have ever seen.
Baz, he had nowhere to hide once Madge arrived, he got away with murder under Nobby. As has been mentioned, he was never the same after Mason decked him. And his mother's death affected him very badly.
Our £400K didn't buy his 'early years at Bradford' which were outstanding. I reckon he cost us the thick end of a million which could have been better spent by far!
Sorry but the way he got flattened/took a dive after the Mason punch was utterly pathetic and tarnishes his reputation somewhat in my eyes.
Not everyone is a scrapper, I understand that entirely. James Graham has never really struck me as a fighter but Fielden actively encouraged that reputation, only to soil himself the minute someone a bit bigger and tougher fronted him. He left Peacock to clear up the mess, now that's a hard player and one of the best props that has ever played the game.
To be honest Fielden was actually very poor which was a perfect match for Wigan at that time. They never really got away with cheating Stuart was a heavy price to pay. A bit like us without the cheating aspect with Mr. Perry.
Maybe, to be honest pal that 'awesome foursome' guff used to boil my p'ss. I thought they were hugely overrated, as I said earlier I can remember darren Britt getting the better of all of them in the grand final 2003 with his back up being Barry ward. They would make me laugh Bradford, I can remember the 'anytime, any place' motto that Scott Naylor came up with one season- well yeah, anytime any place until Saints snot you in a final basically.
I always thought Fielden picked his marks. Remember him giving Jason Smith a bit of a slap up at Hull and coming off the better. But whenever another prop ( a mason or a Barrie mac for example) stepped up he invariably didn't want to know. If you're going to play the hard knock card then be prepared to back it up.
I came over and watched quite a few of the internationals and thought he had some very god games. However, he was never the same later on and I couldn't believe it when Nobbie got Wigan to pay 400K for him.
A good player at one time but never carried it on.