Re: Gelling? : Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:10 pm  

Itchy Arsenal wrote:

I'm just not a Gelling fan.
Can't knock his commitment or work rate but he's one dimensional.
The reason why he makes yardage is that we haven't got the big guys to do the heavy work when we are in our own half.
If this is how we want to play then sell Charnley as he is waste of salary cap at the moment due to lack of passes. Reminds me of when we had Dallas - great winger but never gets the chance to show it.
I'd like to see him the second row but if SW thought he would be better there then I'm sure we would have seen this before now.
My points may seem illogical but I just don't want to see centres trundling the ball in on every occasion they get the ball.

He cops a lot of stick from the people that sit near me too.

Personally I like him a lot. He brings size and energy to the team.

Charnley has been starved of the ball this year, but he was starved of it last year too - all of our moves seemed to go from right to left.

Re: Gelling? : Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:59 pm  

P-J wrote:

He cops a lot of stick from the people that sit near me too.

Personally I like him a lot. He brings size and energy to the team.

Charnley has been starved of the ball this year, but he was starved of it last year too - all of our moves seemed to go from right to left.

They went left because Sarginson early on offered nothing and Gelling made yards.
As I say I'm not anti Gelling but if he is the type of player who we think personifies good play and how we want to go forward get rid of speedy wingers and get a winger who can kick or compete for a high ball from a kick. Ah Van fits the bill!

Re: Gelling? : Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:28 am  

So did Pat Richards.

Actually, i was never that much of a fan of Gleeson; I'd have rated Carmont a much better centre.

Re: Gelling? : Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:37 am  

moto748 wrote:

So did Pat Richards.

Actually, i was never that much of a fan of Gleeson; I'd have rated Carmont a much better centre.

Totally agree with that

Re: Gelling? : Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:45 pm  

WARRIORCRAIG wrote:

Goulding was excellent for us in 2012 and 2013, but he was nowhere near as good as Gleeson, and Gelling isn't any worse than Goulding. When you watch back how many assists Goulding got the vast majority of them came because Sam Tomkins had created the overlap and space leaving DG just needing to tip the ball on to his winger. He struggled a lot more in 2014 once ST had gone.

Sam was the icing on the cake for us but I'm not sure Gelling has the same skill that Goulding had in being able to tip the ball on. Defensively Goulding was miles better and as for his last season with us, he played carrying injuries as did Charnley for that matter that most people wouldn't have been able to get out of bed with, let alone play rugby.