Im not going to make a comment about him again. People know my views on him.




















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SH*T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any decent winger wouild have walked in for that chance in the first half.Oh for Albert or Sully instead of bloody Gardener.

Absolute nail on the head. Without the individual errors from the wingers, we would have won, no matter how anyone tries to pad it out.

Well, we certainly would have had a good chance of winning. Our wingers made the biggest possible blunders on the very night they should have been performing at their best. It was like deja vu all over again. How can Meli have played so well for the last couple of months only to gift a try to Leeds in the bloody Grand Final? And what the feck has happened to Gardner this year? He really should be dropped.

As should Leon Pryce.

And Bryn Hargreaves.

And probably half the team, while I'm at it!!

Gardner and Meli are the Laurel and Hardy of rugby league.

When a winger gets the ball, the opposition fans should feel a flutter of fear at the prospect. When the ball goes near Gardner or Meli, the Saints fans brick themselves.

Rewind that game and what you see is that our weak players lost that game - Meli and Gardner for their cock-ups and Hargreaves for his lack of awareness at the PTB. You can make a case that Pryce/Wilkin/Roby etc didn't show up, but you can also make a case that they and their Leeds opposite numbers cancelled each other out. Meli, Gardner and Hargreaves looked second rate, and cost us the game.

Bad mistake from Meli tonight but the rest of his play was again superb.

You taking pi$$?

He was rubbish.

I thought wello and long was saints best players.

The truth is we have been arrogant enough to believe it doesn't matter if our wingers can't catch a ball, it doesn't matter if we have no kicking game - we are good enough to win without them.

I'm flabbergasted that a professional team can have such wanton disregard for crucial aspects of the game. Worst of all - it's been going on for YEARS. What next - play with 12 men (although if it meant axing Meli we might be better off)?

Chairman - take control.

I feel sorry for Meli. Apart from those two brain explosions his performances this season have been wonderful.

Gardner on the other hand has had a truly shocking season.

Long? A shadow of his former self. Hull FC fans must be pooping themselves. Eastmond was you stand-out player.

its about time it was said.......


we need pace. and we wont get it while we got wellens, meli, gardner, gidley, leon and long in the backs. we wont break teams down. im not the coach so its up to the staff to work out the formula

hull know what they are getting, lets face it Longy has to remembered as a legend, however the last two years he has been so far off the pace its unreal.

now for meli, past seasons i have had NOTHING good to say about him put i think he has come on bounds this year however you need to be counted in finals and oh dear what really went through that head

superb? Meli

Get him out

Meli is a clown of the highest order. I dont care that people stick up for him by saying "well, he runs the ball in hard". So fckin what. We have 20 lads in the academy/reserves who would run the ball back hard. Meli's problem is and always has been that he will ALWAYS gift the opposition a try or 2 with mistakes that a professional shouldnt make.

I cant wait till he fooks off back to aus.

Like it or not, it's a very important part of the modern winger's game, and Meli is very good at it. No way on earth do we have any kids in the academy who could return the ball like Meli does.


While 'always' is an exaggeration, this is unfortunately a flaw in his game that you feel is always waiting to rear its head. It's a shame, as he has been excellent for the majority of this season, and offers a lot more than Gardner does on the opposite flank.

Incidentally, at least Meli was [itrying [/ito do the right thing when he made his balls up ... I was personally much more miffed with Maurie when he had his great little idea.