Don't forget he also saved a try when the ball was pinballing around.

Fair do he did. But he can always be counted on for a big feck up which takes away from his all round game, typically within 5mins of him coming on.

Pee'd me off that, took the gloss off what I thought was a great shift, I reckon one was reefed.

I always find Wood, Harrison and Higham a bit slow to climb off the attacker especially Harrison

Harrison was, understandably, well off the pace and his usual form tonight.

No, he is a great forward. If he were to make no mistakes, that would make him a Robot.

That's a good attribute in the modern game.

Penalty slow not Wigan slow

I thought so too. Something to look forward to when, in couple of weeks, he's back to his best.

It may well be that Morley is 'past his best', although that term usually gets used to describe a player who is no longer able to cut it, which isn't the case with Morley.



For me he is still a good player, one of the top props in SL. Is he as good as he was at the Roosters? Probably not. Over 2008-2010 with us maybe he was still at that level. All players will go into some form of decline as they age, with some players its shallow and barely noticeable. Brett Hodgson is probably in a shallow decline as well, he's still IMO the best fullback in SL, but is he as good as he was at Parramatta or Wests? Maybe not.



There are other players who are in steeper decline, Wellens at Saints is a shadow of the player he was. A lot of the Leeds players have dropped off a lot in the last couple of years. Our favourite subject on here, Martin Gleeson, is another player who has been in shallow decline since about 2006. He's still good, but he's not the player he was and even as one of his bigger fans on here I would admit that you could see the decline even with us.



I still reckon Morley will do us till 2012 but next year we might have to accept that he will be running on the reserve tank. But plenty of props have done it, a prop with good technique even when he has become a bit slow and lumbering, is still an effective player and will still dominate younger props who are not as good technically (remember the success Mike Greg got in his brief spell at Wigan, with an ageing Pongia, Craig Smith and Terry O'C as his front line props). It is not a problem when we still have firepower like Carvell and Paul Wood around him. Glenn Lazarus at Melbourne Storm at the end of his career was the slowest player in the game and he admitted after he retired that the refs had been kind to him by not flagging him offside when he was struggling to get back the 10 (they knew it still took him long enough to run in 8 yards to tackle!) but he was still an immense figure in that team. Morley is a big enough presence in the game to be that so I think we can manage the fact that he is coming to the end of his career without it being a problem.

I'll tell you who has declined and that is Paul Wellens. His pace has gone. Don't really notice him playing these days and Eastmond's head is on cream teas in the pump room at Bath. Ah well all good things do come to an end

Morley is a [igreat[/i forward, Wood is a good forward in my opinion.