Quote wakey_saint="wakey_saint"Just because he is top of the assists chart doesnt mean he is the form stand off in SL...all that proves is that Cas (who are poor and currently 12th in table) look to him to create their tries. Both Wigan and Saints have got 2 players in Top 10 for assists so all that proves is that better teams have more than 1 player to look to.'"
That would be because Chase is surrounded by players who aren't Super League quality, stick him in the Wigan team and people would be banging on about how he's one of the best players in the world.
Quote wakey_saint="wakey_saint"Chase was poor in 4N last year for England, and hasnt set SL alight this year at all, when I have seen him he has been nothing but avergae and looks like a 1 trick pony who was good last year and has since been found out. Pryce is in far better form at Catalans, Lomax is playing well at Saints and both of these are English so why should Chase be included before either of those?'"
He wasn't poor in the 4 Nations, in the limited time he had on the ball he didn't do much wrong, it's just hard to stand out when Sinfield HAS to be involved in everything.
As for he's looked average this year and a one trick pony - oh dear, he's had his role changed this year because Millward sees him more like Thurston than anyone else so he's tried moulding him into that, wrongly imo but he's still ripping teams to bits on his own, if he had a bit more quality around him he would look even better, a number of times this year he's found an overlap out of nothing only for the intended receiver to not be looking or something, they're all 1 or 2 steps behind him.
Lomax isn't playing well and he's the real definition of a one trick pony and I seriously don't get the hype around him, average at best.
Quote wakey_saint="connemara kid"no welham in either squad?'"
Because he can't tackle?