: Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:41 am
Ashmeister wrote:
Thats because he is a good player.
Leon Pryce, Sean Long, Jamie Peacock, Rob Burrow, Danny Mcguire etc... would all play well in the NRL.
Players like Mathers, Mason, Edmondson and Sibbit where all crap in Super League its not that they could'nt hack the NRL.
He played pretty good for his first game.
Whether he can sustain it week in week out as he gets targeted by the other teams hit merchants will decide how he is judged over a season.
The other players you mention would have to back themselves to be judged on how they would go.
Several have talked about testing their arm in the NRL McGuire in particular without doing anything about it and signing long term SL contracts.
Pryce is average in my opinion. (brittle and goes missing entire games)
Long and Peacock are on the way down.
The players mentioned above should have had a go when they were at the top of their game, they showed bugger all in last years World Cup.
Gleeson is a current Test centre and wanted a move to the NRL but got no offers.
"Mason, Edmondson and Sibbit " did these players move to the NRL? I have never heard of them, did they get any game time.
Mathers was an up and comer supposedly when he joined the Titans and played 5 games before injury. (then he quit)
Next you will be saying Wellens is "World Class"