Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:49 am  

St pete wrote:

Maybe not body wise but playing wise he is. Without being sexiest, Turner plays the game like a girl at times.

That was sexist. Clearly you haven't watched girls play rugby league.

The whole team has had a bad attitude at times this season. Turner is a better player at centre than is Wheeler. I'm frankly weary of hearing about Wheeler. He has had one good game this season: the first, at Warrington. Since then he's either been injured, dropped or poor. I would much rather us let him go and free up the salary for an up and coming young guy to be promoted. It's a shame that Wheeler's body can't take the knocks but that's not a reason to keep carrying him.

Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:53 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

Agree with Pete that Turner plays soft. It was noticeable at the Cas game that he was running twice as hard as he had been recently, hopefully he's one of the players Brown has targeted for a "man up" chat.

He is one of the players that's had a quite word in his ear. I think it's pretty poor that a full time pro rugby player has to have a word in his ear to actually play with some purpose.

That's the measure of the guy and why we have fallen short against the big teams this year as sadly we have a few players with that attitude.

Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:33 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

I feel sorry for the lad. He gets pilloried on here for his poor injury record but gives his all on the pitch.
When he recovers from his injuries he is then stuck in the wilderness for ages waiting for some other poor sod to get hurt.

Perhaps if he gave his all off the pitch as well then he'd be more likely to be able to give his all on the pitch more often.

Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:39 pm  

St pete wrote:

He is one of the players that's had a quite word in his ear. I think it's pretty poor that a full time pro rugby player has to have a word in his ear to actually play with some purpose.

That's the measure of the guy and why we have fallen short against the big teams this year as sadly we have a few players with that attitude.

I thought he had a decent physical game against the Goons last week, he's very similar to LMS he can put in a good shift if he sets his mind to it.

Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 6:22 pm  

St pete wrote:

Maybe not body wise but playing wise he is. Without being sexiest, Turner plays the game like a girl at times.

Come down to Thatto and watch the ladies play, you'll apologize for that one.... ....

Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:21 pm  

Two Wheeled Saint wrote:

Come down to Thatto and watch the ladies play, you'll apologize for that one.... ....

Thatto is a swear word. I'm not going anywhere near the place. Brook rules

Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:26 pm  

Where are Brook's ladies team?

Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:28 pm  

St pete wrote:

Thatto is a swear word. I'm not going anywhere near the place. Brook rules

cos you're scared of us thatto heathers!

Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:38 pm  

After the last few games I think Flanagan is better than Turner at centre. I would have no problem with Wheeler having a spell at centre.

Re: Wheeler : Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:57 pm  

Harry Pinner wrote:

Perhaps if he gave his all off the pitch as well then he'd be more likely to be able to give his all on the pitch more often.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean training?

I don't think he has had a bad game for us, unlike turner, LMS, biff and others; the problem he is he hasn't played enough because of his injuries and when recovered then being out of favour.

If / when he goes it will be another great loss of talent to Saints and is more likely to end up a Matty Smith type success than a Scot Moore type failure.