Re: 2017 signing rumours : Wed Oct 19, 2016 9:34 pm  

JWarriors wrote:

You just described the Gelling of 2014, but certainly not the Gelling of 2016. He's been immense. He hasn't had games this year where he's stunk the place out. The pass in the GF was more Bateman's fault for passing to Gelling too late as he was being closed down by the defence. He has very quick hands, usually can put his winger away, and has a good offload as well. He can also put a good grubber in for the winger on occasion. Plus he makes great metres, and is solid defensively. He might not be as good as some centres of the past, but generally the bar is a lot lower in SL now for centres.

I used to dread Gelling playing, now he is one of my favourite players for us, and not just for his personality.

You've beat me to a response.

As you say today's Gelling doesn't have them stinkers anymore. He doesn't do 4 bad things for every 6 good things anymore and that consistency he was accused of lacking above has already arrived.

He's really developed in to a fabulous player and after he took some stick early in his Wigan career, it's very pleasing to see.

Re: 2017 signing rumours : Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:11 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

You've beat me to a response.

As you say today's Gelling doesn't have them stinkers anymore. He doesn't do 4 bad things for every 6 good things anymore and that consistency he was accused of lacking above has already arrived.

He's really developed in to a fabulous player and after he took some stick early in his Wigan career, it's very pleasing to see.

He has matured and is developing into a really good centre, one that would grace any team in SL.

Re: 2017 signing rumours : Thu Oct 20, 2016 11:16 am  

Could you imagine how much Lineham would have been slated if he'd dropped as many high bombs as Charnley did in the final. These people are human, not machines. They make mistakes.

Re: 2017 signing rumours : Thu Oct 20, 2016 11:39 am  

The All New Chester Wire wrote:

Could you imagine how much Lineham would have been slated if he'd dropped as many high bombs as Charnley did in the final. These people are human, not machines. They make mistakes.

Oops, somebody is talking sense again. What on earth is this forum turning into?

[Uncle Rico]

Re: 2017 signing rumours : Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:51 pm  

The All New Chester Wire wrote:

Could you imagine how much Lineham would have been slated if he'd dropped as many high bombs as Charnley did in the final. These people are human, not machines. They make mistakes.

He could drop a dozen for me if he came up with the match winning try

Re: 2017 signing rumours : Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:22 pm  

Uncle Rico wrote:

He could drop a dozen for me if he came up with the match winning try

Touché

Re: 2017 signing rumours : Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:26 pm  

Uncle Rico wrote:

He could drop a dozen for me if he came up with the match winning try

If you drop a dozen bombs against Wigan then no way in the world will you be in a position to score a winning try.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: 2017 signing rumours : Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:03 pm  

Paul Youane wrote:

If you drop a dozen bombs against Wigan then no way in the world will you be in a position to score a winning try.

Perhaps you missed my point or misread my post the important word was "if"?

Re: 2017 signing rumours : Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:13 pm  

Paul Youane wrote:

If you drop a dozen bombs against Wigan then no way in the world will you be in a position to score a winning try.

Nor if you cannot score for 62 minutes.