Currently the best back rower in Super League. And will only get better with age, he's nowhere near his "peak" age yet.

From a selfish point of view dont want him anywhere near the England set up . Dont want Macnamarra

anywhere near him .

Watching Faz at the moment is worth the drive south alone

Another 44 tackles on Friday with none missed plus 144 metres (oh and a try)
Negatives one error and one penalty.

Talk about taking an opportunity when it's presented to you. He looked like a lad that was getting fed up being a bench player these past two years and his game seemed to stagnate. He's seen Hock leave and Hansen get injured and has gone from 3rd choice second row to 1st at Wigan and his forms that good he must be a strong candidate for a spot in England first 17.

You would like to think so, but with McNamara in charge it will probably end up with someone like Danny Kirmond getting ahead of him.

To be fair Kirmond is underrated. He was excellent last season.

I think he is a good player, but no way he should be getting in ahead of the likes of Liam Farrell, just thats how I can see it going under McNamara!

I'm another that rates Kirmond and would have him here in a shot. I see him as another Ben Westwood who'll continue to get better and better after making the shift from being a wing or centre early in their career through to now playing in the forwards.

That's a side issue though and I get the point about McNamara. It's not players like Kirmond he shouldn't be selecting though its the tried and failed like Wilkin and to a lesser extent JJB.

A question worth asking is would he be as effective outside of wigan? Granted his defensive prowess is obviously impressive. But would his offensive contribution be as significant on the shoulder of a player other than blake green with whom he already has a fantastic link?

Good players adapt. If he would be unable to then he obviously wouldn't be as good as is being made out. Personally, I like him. It's just his size that worries me when it comes to the next level. At the moment I'd stick with the "big" back rowers like Westwood, Hock, Ellis (if he gets fit), Sam Burgess.

Liams Stats are outstanding and he's not alone, just to re-itterate what a few people have been talking about with our youngsters stepping up and our defence being solid, top of the missed tackles table is Liam Farrell with 0 from 226 big pat on the back, joint second is two more of our youngsters in dom crosby and logan tompkins missing just 1 tackle each from a combined 121 tackles and joint third are more of our young crop gil dudson, greg burke and sam powell all missing just 3 tackles from a combined 235 tackles. These are great signs for the future, all our youngsters out perfoming our seasoned pro's in the defence department!

Stevo mentioned on Backchat that "a few NRL teams" are watching him.....would be a bigger loss than Sam imo

On current form, he should be the first name on the teamsheet.

Lets not go overboard

Good player, but absolutely no way would he be a bigger loss than Tomkins.

Ye gods.

hes done it again. 38 tackles, 130m and 0 missed tackles. beast.

Funny, I'm sure someone on here once posted how Faz would be a good replacement for Hansen when he was injured, now he's better than Hansen.

Pity we don't have Hock and Faz as the starting SR.

Having looked at the league table this year and seeing how we have won more games than we have lost, I'd pose the question do we really need Hansen at all?

Yes.
He'll be one of the first names on the team sheet when he's fit.

You're right, it was more tongue in cheek regarding a point that has been raised before

Hansen might be behind Farrell and O'Loughlin in the pecking order but he's still streets ahead of Tuson, Hughes and Burke. Lets not forget that we've been beaten by Huddersfield and Leeds, drew with Wire and Cas pushed us close. Plenty of room for improvement, even if it is a decent start given our injury situation.

We did play Catalans as well and that wasn't a bad result.
I'd take that score for Friday anytime!

I think he missed a tackle near the end of the first half! Get rid!

Definitely missed one today. Somebody got on his inside about 40 metres from their line about 10 mins before half time.

I'd make him do 20 laps in training to make it up to everyone.