Quote: FearTheVee "
Wellens, when on the pitch, provides the sort of influence you would expect him to. He's not on the pitch enough in my opinion (we often look a different side when he is) and it's difficult for him to influence these car crash starts to games from the bench. Having said that, I dread to think what this team would be like without him there every day in training. You could see what it all means to him after the game at the weekend.
Cunningham and Wellens do not pick the team and do not decide whether to drop under-performing players. I get the feeling that if Wellens was picking the team this weekend we'd see some casualties.'"
We,ve just been discussing the very thing that Wellens should be 60-70 mins on the field and not 60-70 mins on the bench, no other team in the comp has the team captain watching the game for such a long period without direct influence.
Either that or don,t pick him at all in the 17 and give the captaincy to Walsh or Wilkin, attitude is a BIG issue from now on otherwise we are not mentally fit to compete in Superleague.