Why? Because he looked good in ONE game at Huddersfield and HALF a game at Wigan?

He hasn't come remotely close to establishing himself in a first team position, despite how the few fans he has remaining on here claiming he's more talented than Lomax and Eastmond.

Even if he'd looked good for 10 minutes, that's longer than never. He's frequently looked good, indeed far more often than not when he's fit.



If it wasn't for injury Wheeler would have been a first choice centre this year. Bit closer than not "remotely close".

You can converse without these exaggerations, I've seen you do it and it's far more interesting to read your rational moments.

Nobody is arguing he's a shocker for injuries, but saying things like "he's never shown any quality" and "hasn't come remotely close to establishing himself in a first team position" just smacks of toys out of the pram.

Everyone at the club knows how talented he is. If fit he'd be in the team every single week.

Thanks, saved me a job and saved Saddened being called a few swear words as well.

But all you are doing is replacing exaggeration with pedantic factuality. Two opposing ends of the scale but the real throng of my post still rings true.



Where is the evidence to back up your claims? He didn't get the 3 or 4 squad number did he? No chance of him getting into the team ahead of Meli or Shenton now, none at all.

I agree.

No it's fine. I've better things to do with my time than court controversy on an internet forum.



You may have a small minority of like minded attention seekers agree with you but the majority of people will want Wheeler to stay.

Fixed it for you.

From pre-seasonhttps://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/429rl

"And, Gary Wheeler proved he could be the man to fill the centre role this season."



Don't blame you for missing it, it was after a big defeat and you were probably busy knee-jerking about how we were going to finish behind Leeds/Hudds/Hull/Catalans etc this year and wanting to swap our backs for Wakefield's because we'd lost a friendly.

There is some talent in Wheeler but his injury record means we can't take up a salary with someone who never play

He is contracted to 2012 anyway. So getting rid now would cost us more.

Also we can't buy in any more overseas so unless someone else can outplay him in the academy whats the point in getting rid of talent.

He was fabulous against the Quins and I don't mean because the Quins are dire. I mean because he showed great hands and feet and pace and step ... if he is indeed injured (rather than he is being rested for later but that can't be admitted) then that is a real shame. He didn't look remotely injured after the Quins match. Far from it. He was most people's MoM on Saturday.

It was me yes, and yes you've been proven right this season. There's no point releasing him until his contract expires which is the end of next year. He has a year to prove he can string a run of games together otherwise there is no way he can be offered a contract, it's simply not worth our investment. It reminds me of Nigel Wright, who was a great talent at Wigan but could never string games together.

The talent is most definitely there, but it's so frustrating with him as he NEVER strings more than 4 or 5 games together, sometimes it's 1 or 2 games and then he's out for 3 months!

As for the squad, big disappointment to have no Kyle, Wheeler and Pryce - 3 creative players who we need in the big games. It'll be a tough ask going there and getting a win IMO.

Not in my opinion. it was late and hoffman knew exactly what he was doing in that there was a good chance of injury.
It changed the game entirely.

Still can't blame hoff for wagon wheels latest quad injury.