It's bigger than the KC that's for sure which isn't anywhere close to being 100m, Frank has not shown any decent level of fitness all season and has hardly done any minutes, we just cannot afford a passenger against Warrington.

Based on where he is at right at this minute and what he has shown in the semi and the game before he shouldn't be anywhere near the 17. JA was dropped like a stone for being overweight/unfit and look how that has changed things.

Pritchard really is splitting the fans atm, I know people I talk to are split, tbh I can see both sides and I would have him in the 17, just like to see him run with the ball more and maybe the odd crash ball near the line, maybe its just we expect to much?

But that's the problem, he can't run more, he can't even manage what 20-25 minutes right now at any intensity/go forward.
For what we are paying him which is the most of any player by far, we as fans were expecting something akin to what he was doing in the NRL and whilst we've had a couple of glimpses it's not even close to being enough to justify his price tag, it's a massive, massive dissapointment for me so far.
So no, I don't think we are expecting too much, I wish he could get some game time in the u23s as his lack of ability to get around the field and lack of minutes is having an impact on others IMHO.
we're stuck with him for next year and I hope he improves on this but there is no way in hell I'd be offering him a third year option, the money needs to be spent more wisely elsewhere

I'm not going to elaborate but Pritchard isn't doing what I'd hoped he'd do, has been ordinary so far.

He was playing well before he went back to oz but since he got back he's barely put a couple of games together due to injury. No one can question his quality but he doesn't appear to be fit

Probably playing through his knee injury due to his status in the squad. I believe he actually hurt his knee just before he went back to Aus - I did wonder if he'd be fit enough to play in the international. His stats have been pretty good over the season and if he can keep playing consecutive games he'll improve more. Even when playing out wide I don't think our set moves used him as effectively as they might have done. He'd be on my team sheet every match - nice injection for Stevie Michaels' try and someone the opposition needs to think about.

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knockersbumpMKII wrote:It's bigger than the KC that's for sure which isn't anywhere close to being 100m, Frank has not shown any decent level of fitness all season and has hardly done any minutes, we just cannot afford a passenger against Warrington. Based on where he is at right at this minute and what he has shown in the semi and the game before he shouldn't be anywhere near the 17. JA was dropped like a stone for being overweight/unfit and look how that has changed things. Wembley pitch size for football "as lined for association football, is 115 yd (105 m) long by 75 yd (69 m) wide" taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wembley_Stadium#Pitch KC pitch size for football "Pitch Size: 114 x 78 yards" taken from http://www.footballgroundguide.com/leagues/england/premier-league/kc-stadium-hull-city.html The historic notion of Wembley's wide open spaces is a myth. As for Pritchard. The opposition fear him. This is evidenced by the number of opposition player which are in the tackle to stop him. This creates gaps in the defensive line for the following play. He has recently had a 4 week lay off with an ankle injury for which I can only imagine he was unable to run / cycle therefore his fitness will have dropped.

knockersbumpMKII wrote:It's bigger than the KC that's for sure which isn't anywhere close to being 100m, Frank has not shown any decent level of fitness all season and has hardly done any minutes, we just cannot afford a passenger against Warrington. Based on where he is at right at this minute and what he has shown in the semi and the game before he shouldn't be anywhere near the 17. JA was dropped like a stone for being overweight/unfit and look how that has changed things. Wembley pitch size for football "as lined for association football, is 115 yd (105 m) long by 75 yd (69 m) wide" taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wembley_Stadium#Pitch KC pitch size for football "Pitch Size: 114 x 78 yards" taken from http://www.footballgroundguide.com/leagues/england/premier-league/kc-stadium-hull-city.html The historic notion of Wembley's wide open spaces is a myth. As for Pritchard. The opposition fear him. This is evidenced by the number of opposition player which are in the tackle to stop him. This creates gaps in the defensive line for the following play. He has recently had a 4 week lay off with an ankle injury for which I can only imagine he was unable to run / cycle therefore his fitness will have dropped.

So you came up with some 'stats' regarding soccer pitch markings, well done but incorrect, the Kcom pitch is the same width which I haven't disputed, it has to be to meet the requirements. But for rugby there is a difference as I stated, the wembley pitch will be exactly 100m from try line to try line, the rugby pitch at the Kcom isn't.
It's approx 96-97metres currently since they facked around with it, this is noticeable even just by looking at the discrepency of the 10m markings.
So yes, the new wembley pitch is bigger than our rugby marked pitch.

The old Wembley pitch was a lot wider longer than most soccer pitches of the day and they had to narrow the pitch of the new wembley for it to meet the standardised soccer pitch regs.

I'm pretty sure the pitch will be 100m long which we seem to do OK on pretty much every other week so I doubt it will tire us out too much