: Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:05 am  

experiments

: 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"

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:46 am  

Jonesy wrote:

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.

Next you will be saying Wellens is "World Class"

Fact is, Ellis is a big hitter too, so he will give it back as good as he gets!

He'll go fine, and i think he will get a rep as big as Morley did down under

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:57 am  

Irregs #16 wrote:

Fact is, Ellis is a big hitter too, so he will give it back as good as he gets!

He'll go fine, and i think he will get a rep as big as Morley did down under

I hope he does.
Its a credit to him that he backed himself and signed with one of the underdog Clubs
He spoke well after the game, I hope he does really well.

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:59 am  

Lets hope Ellis can continue to do the business - it will hopefully show the way for other better british players that there is a life outside SL and if you want to know how good you really are then a test against the best is the way

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:36 am  

Jonesy wrote:

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"

sibbit played 19 games for the storm in 2002 before coming back to warrington. Where we had him out of position in the centres pluggin a gap as we were before he left us.

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:42 am  

Jonesy wrote:

I hope he does.
Its a credit to him that he backed himself and signed with one of the underdog Clubs
He spoke well after the game, I hope he does really well.

Cant be the same ellis as the one who started at Wakefield then!!!!

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:49 pm  

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: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:38 pm  

Jonesy wrote:

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"

You dont need to 'test' yourself in the NRL to know your a good player. The players i mentioned are class players. Thats not an opinion it is a fact!

Put it one way, Paul Wellens is 'not' World class but his a hell of alot better than the likes of Luke Pattern and Rhys Wesser who are number 1's for their respective clubs in the NRL (Bulldogs and Souths). However he is nowhere in the same class as your Slaters and Stewarts.

The point is most decent decent super league players could get a regular spot in an NRL team, thats not saying they're world class.

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:37 pm  

We'll be able to see Idris again this weekend on Setanta. Panthers Vs Bulldogs.