. . . despite the commentators saying Meli worked hard, he made a couple of very very very very poor errors.

And yet there's a thread about Gardner?

The bloke's on a big contract but I can't help thinking we'd be as well playing a kid on the wing.

Really reaching the end of my tether with this guy - he looks like he's petrified of catching a ball, always looking at the defender. Grow a pair.

give over!

He played well tonight.

He gets enough stick when he plays bad so he earned a pat on back tonight.

He's a winger. He can't catch.

The one he dropped after the ball bounced away from Wellens was pathetic.

He didn't even contest the one where Longy got penalised for blocking the chasers.

I don't doubt he runs the ball well, but every ball he drops is worth 10 relieving runs.

The two brain farts when dropping the ball under hardly any pressure almost outweighed any good he did driving forward.

wello was out of postion in 1st place but meli should have caught that.

I'm not a big meli fan but he did well tonight. He run very well and made good yards.


The guy gets bagged even when he plays well!!!

Thought he played well tonight. Probably broke more tackles and made more yards than anyone for us. The incident referred to about the bomb that Donald got the penalty for that led to their try, perhaps the blame could lay with Long. He should have attempted to catch the ball instead of concentrating on Donald. The ball was coming down nearest to him, ( it nearly hit him on the head)

as the lump said, his hard work was undone by his poor hands under the bomb, we need to be giving him an hour extra a day under them in training until he can catch, its not rocket surgery as Barry Mac would say

What do you mean? There is a fixation with Meli and the 'bomb' the two balls he missed tonight, where not 'under' the bomb. One was Wellens mis-judgement under the sticks and t'other should have seen Long go for it instead of looking at Donald

He played very well tonight!! He was fantastic!

Gardner on the other hand, is absolutely awfull. Worst winger in super league by a country mile. Meli is world class compared to him.

Still got nowhere near catching either under zero pressure.

It's not good enough.

exactly!

Give over FFS. Give him a break. I'd love to see him in the pack to be honest as a second row. I was great for us tonight.

but he is a winger, so should be able to catch the ball, thats his job. He has been brilliant for about 5 - 6 games now but this is a major weakness in his game.

Neither of them were his ball to catch. Why are you not slagging Wellens and Long for missing them under zero pressure? Like I say Meli is an easy target from past form, but he did nothing wrong tonight in my view, (one of our best players) and to be honest I'm not his biggest fan!

You are Francis Meli and I claim my Five Pounds.