Sorry but to say we should get rid of someone after 4 games when he is obviously carrying an injury is ridiculous

Agree with that the only real problem i is he takes up a quota spot and i would imagine quiet a bit of the S.C. . I would like to see Lee Mossop get more of a chance which i think he needs,and with Phil Bailey playing in the maybe he could be an option in the second row.

That is a very good point, where has this 'injury' of Riddell's come from? I've not seen any report of it anywhere.

I'm not saying it's bogus, I just often wonder if we're living in denial and don't want to face the possibility that we've spend money and got our hopes up for another bad Oz signing?

How long do we give Riddell before he looks a top notch no.9? Diskin isn't going to be Leeds' first pick 9 but he's far better than Riddell. At this stage I'd be picking Jon Clarke over him

Lets not be too hasty



As far as Piggy's injury goes he hasn't been moving nowhere near as well as he did against Wire and Huddersfield

Does anyone know why he missed the game against Leigh?

I doubt he lost that amount if fitness over the period of around a month

He was injured in first ten min away at Hull , Brian Noble commented on it saying he really should not have gone back on . Hope that helps.

Where did I say (in this post at least) that he should leave the club?



I pulled you up for insulting someone then stated my opinion of Riddell and the reasons behind that opinion.

As it happens I wish he would leave the club but that has more to do with my opinion that we have too many imports in Superleague, as I have consistently posted since the WC disaster.

So why was he slow and off the pace offing nothing against Wakey? If he only picked up the injury the game later?

In that post I was reffering to the guy that said he should leave the club not you

Sorry if you thought I was having a go at you

There was talk of him turnig an ankle in warm weather training in lanzarotti , so he missed the leigh game , That better for you , can't remember where i heard that.

Agree with the too many imports bit though

Remember that threat when a lad came on here and said that his mates had said he looked like phil bailey!? Hahahaha! That was a classic!!

I remember that thread! He got ripped to shreads!! Funniest thread EVER!! Can anyone dig it up??

Riddel is twice the player Mickey Higham was.

Who's riddel?

oh look another keyboard tough guy you pr'ck !!!

Jimmy i think

Riddell picked up an ankle injury in the training camp and missed one of our friendlies because of it, which may go some way to explaining the problem.

As mentioned earlier, he got injured in Pre season After the Hudds game but he missed the Leigh game.

He then played at Hull and got a bad knock on it in the opening 5 minutes and limped through the rest of the game as we had No bodies left late in the game.

To me he has looked a touch sharper/Better in each of the next couple of games and given a run of 10 games or so I am sure we will see the real Riddell.

As already mentioned, 3 years of Higham and a Handfull of Good games (Not Great Games just Good) wasnt good enough. Only time will tell wether Riddell will improve on that.
Too many people with views I respect that have seen a lot more of him than me seem to think he will be a Good un, that's good enough for me to give him 3-6 months.

I hate all that lol and lmao nonsense, but your brilliantly juvenile toilet humour genuinely made me laugh out loud!

if he is injured like people keep saying why is he playing when we have enough cover. Let him rest and get better then bring him back and see the best of him !

This is why I find it hard to believe he is injured. Infact I think if he were, we'd be playing Tommy and McC on the interchange.

He's either out there (for fitness, which he could achieve in the reserves, or cos Noble thinks he's the best we have at 9)

Twice as good as Higham? oh come on. Don't slap Micky in the face with that one. He's yet to prove he's better let alone TWICE as good.

Regardless, we want a top class hooker, right now I'd sooner has Diskin, and he's not the best 9 in the SL.

He still needs first team game time and is doing ok in my opinion ,if we rest him the most likely results will be a six page thread moaning about is fitness , O wait a min .

One word 'Reserves'.

And how many games have the reserves played so far .He needs first team not reserves .