I've not seen that much difference so far.



None of them will be as good as the likes of Burgess or Graham, all will probably go on and have decent SL careers without doing much else.

Weak defensively and is blowing out of his after a few mins on the pitch

always concerns me that tactic.



a good coach should play it by ear and substitute when he thinks the times right, not by the clock.

and IIRC he brought off feka in one game with 39 minutes on the clock............im sure he could have managed 1 more minute and saved a substitution.

This threads not about Lee Briers i'm afraid.

Feka is an impact prop and needs to stay as one if loosing weight will give him more time on the pitch but loose his "impactness" then i for one would like him to keep the weight. as to the Leeds game he was used as an impact and what an impact he had. Him coming on changed the pattern of the game and would like to see him stay in his current role.

Spot on.



Noble's subs by the clock annoy me as well. It wouldn't be hard to get them more efficient.

Hardly. Feka can't defend for toffee. For this reason and this reason alone we should let him go and get a decent prop in who can defend AND make barnstorming runs.

Who do you suggest?

Tbh, I'd be happy with some one who can defend over some one who makes great runs but can't defend. We seem so much weaker when Feka is on the field and we are defending.

Agree, but we are better going forward with him on the field. It's a team game and about finding the right balance. One of the reasons I am challenging the Fielden thread is that Fielden HAS to do so much work around the marker area when Feka is on the field.



Saints have a similar problem with Maurie Fa'asavalu but he doesn't get the same amount of criticism does he?



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If Feka can't defend for toffee how do you explain his 300+ tackles? To avoid the game time v tackles made just look at the percentage missed:



Scott Murell (league leader for tackles made) 11% missed

Terry Newton 9% missed

Feka - 7% missed

Paul Wellens - 12% missed

Danny Sculthorpe - 3% missed

Jon Wilkin - 7% missed

Brent Webb - 22% missed

Danny Ward - 6% missed

Jason Cayless - 6% missed

Andy Coley - 6% missed

Adrian Morley - 10% missed



Feka doesn't jump out as somebody who misses tackles, his number of tackles made is low but this could be down to game time, it could be a reflection of not getting involved in defense or it could be a reflection of people not running at him because he doesn't miss.



I think the perception that Feka is bad defensively is because of size, not actual ability. I am often supprised when I see him turn and catch somebody like Burrow as he did last week.

How do you just 'let him go'.



People still say this as if we're living in an era before contracts.