Quote Offside Monkey="Offside Monkey"For me, Gelling is a big lad and a real physical handful. Put him in a decent position with some good ball and he'll cause trouble, but being a quality centre is a fine art, one that plenty of supposed good players (including Gelling) fall short at.
its not uncommon. When he played against you the other week, I saw England centre Leroy Cudjoe make a complete hash of putting his winger away when they were 2 on one with your full back. Ryan Atkins is another one who should be a wonderful centre, but will make a complete balls up of any situation requiring a bit of silk. Then there's the positional defence which throws plenty of athletic based centres.'"
In the past 10/20 years you can count on one hand the amount of real quality British centres that have emerged. Gleeson, Senior, Newlove, Connolly...
It seems to be a real problem for us to produce them. In Australia they seem to have enough for half a dozen teams.