Fielden is a damn fine player, and a top 5 as far as props go but he has a bit to prove yet to wear the "best player" millstone. Never seen him do a banana kick or throw a 30m spiral pass. Could probably name his price all the same.
Those commentators crack me up. They backtrack, or talk utter bollocks, all the time. To paraphrase, "Look, what I'm sayin' is that right at this very point in time Stuart Fielden is the best player in the world." Well that would be right. He was the best player on the day among combined squads of 34 and the season hasn't started proper in both hemispheres yet, so that's a small selection. Kind of announcing the GF winner in round one. Or to put it another way, right at this point in time I am typing a W then an O, and an R etc...
Doesn't mean jack until the sentence is finished.