Don't think that's got anything to do with it TBH. He's always had issues with his defence - people just tend to overlook his faults because of his strengths.

Improved on the right but easily caught out on the left on Friday.

Which is most unusual for our left hand side.

Which is what concerns me. You could have fitted an ocean liner between Briscoe and the touch line. Hope it was a one off, but compressing the defensive line like that is an invitation to kick us to death

Can't be a one off when he did exactly the same for Warringtons equalising try.

during the second half, after moving from the morons, in front of us was one of the press photgraphers with the large telescopic lenses and on one shot he allowed us to see was briscoe clearly grounding the ball from a kick through that was waved away for a drop out!

Said a few times and, indeed the last time I did was on Friday at Salford after that try, that Briscoe is often out of position in defence.

I also think he was one of the ones who was most "indignant" at Agar's leaving. I remember reading a particularly telling interview in the Mail at the time. Understandable, I suppose, as Agar was primarily responsible for the discovery of the Briscoes. But not sure if any resentment still lingers - he's a silly boy if so.

That too!

They are from his home town Featherstone, Agar watched all the Briscoe boys in action when they played for Fev...we were there a few weeks ago and the coaches were telling us, all good friends.

Don't think anything to do with Agar , he has started slow like last season and gets caught out a bit with his positioning .

I wonder if Briscoe is carrying an injury? He's certainly been off-form so far. Having said that, our 3/4 line has probably been the most disappointing part of our game - no tries from Martin / Sharp, and Briscoe way off his best.

Certainly looked like they didn't know how to get over the line once they were near it on Friday. Lots of unforgiveable errors within 10 yards of the tryline. They seemed to be panicking a bit, I thought.

P Gentle did state that players didn't stick to the game plan and he and the other coaching staff wasn't to pleased about it.I noticed that Radford came on after Salford scored to have words with the players

Think people are been harsh on Briscoe tbh. The first one he had to come in and the 2nd was just well worked by Salford. Didn't like the way Radford went at Briscoe for the 1st try, if he needed to tell him something that was way OTT and Briscoe didn't look to impressed.

Also the " not bothered " comment is stupid.

I think your probably right, try/game saving tackles like the one he did on Fox tend to stick in fans minds more than his more regular defensive errors. I actually think he would develop even further though with a who served him more because he certainly has strength and speed to find the line more than he does.

Briscoe has been outplayed by Sharp all season, he needs to buck his ideas up, maybe he is believing they hype too much? That said they first try wasn't his fault but he shouldn't have got involved in the 2nd.

The undertone of this thread seems to stem from people putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5 regarding him potentially leaving due to the Luke Briscoe fiasco and looking for faults with his game so they can claim he has major flaws in his game should he leave.

Lets ignore the finish for his try which very few other players in the league would have been able to finish, simply because its something we expect him to do.

Not doing any of that and I hope he stays for life but right now he is around 60% of his normal standard from what I have seen. He is still making the same mistakes, like for their second try. He is blessed with natural talent but has very little game sense.

I've said in the past that Briscoe is niave in his positioning, he's obviously still getting caught out quite often. Clearly didn't take anything from Calderwood when he was at FC who was shouting at him in one game I seem to remember.
I hope PG is showing him vids of his performances and telling him where he is going wrong

With all due respect - nonsense. Feel free to check my posting history on Briscoe if you like. I think he's a special player with a great future ahead of him wherever he plays, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have areas of his game that could use some work. Defensive positioning is one of them.

I guess the good thing is that if he carries on playing like he is then he won't be going anywhere. Personally I haven't seen the vacancies for english wingers in the NRL. If there are any at the moment then I guess Briscoe would be behind Hall , Charnley , McGilvery , and one or two others. I bet you could find at least half a dozen young Aussie wingers with all of the attributes needed for ESL in the Toyota Cup who probably can't get a game with an NRL first team squad. He needs to improve his all round game and his concentration before he has any chance of becoming the superstar some think he already is.

Briscoe is quality, but he's only 21 and still learning. He is by far from the finished article, which is why I think he such an exciting player. I said myself he was at fault at times on Friday, he often had been caught out of position, but let's hope an actual coach can see to this as the season goes on.

This.

Yeamo is a centre in the Senior mold, often preferring to back himself through strength, as opposed to sending his winger away

As we saw on Friday. It wasn't completely clear how open the support players were from my view behind the sticks but Yeamo did have support on a break yet kept the ball and ran into the tackler.

bit of a silly conversation this! for large parts of last season tom was best winger in the league! hes having a slow start and may well have been a bit at fault for couple of tries. But nearly all wingers have errors and defensive lapses in them,even the best of em. If like some suggest he's not interested cos he's gonna bugger off wouldnt he want to play well to up his value and put himself in demand! No player plays well 100% of the time! Hopefully find his best this weekend!