Gelling has signed for Widnes on a 2 year deal starting from next season. Got to say I’m a bit gutted,I was always pro Gelling both on and off the field and would have liked him back at the club,he’s considerably better than Sarge.
I know he’s got connections at Widnes and was linked with them before he left us,decent chance he could be playing in the championship next year.

I did like him as a player I must admit but I also think we need to move on from this re signing players who think they’re moving on to bigger and better things or going back to Aus/NZ due to family issues.

Good luck to the lad but I dont think we will see Gelling in SL with Widnes in 2019.

To be fair the bloke didn’t leave because we ‘wanted bigger and better things’, he went to be close to his girlfriend who was in a serious condition.

Good player but there is better out there, good luck to him but am more than happy that we haven’t re-signed him

now i'm not trying to be insensitive in any way, but if he had returned for family reasons, does that mean the girlfriend is now on the mend and coming back to the UK with him?

just seems a little odd to have left wigan for that matter, which of course was the right thing to do, but then to announce he is to come back to the UK less than a season later. was something really going on at wigan, perhaps?

Or was something going on inside Gelling's head, like 'I can move on to bigger and better things'? Only to then find that he couldn't.

i can't see it to be honest, we weren't exactly top of the pile last year.

If I recall correctly Gelling girlfriend was in a very serious condition after a car accident though I may be very wrong on that and I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong.

He left without a club to go to and picked up a contract with NZW mainly playing for a feeder team.

No you're right. He posted several images of her in hospital after the crash; was quite a serious crash, from that point on Gells wanted to be back in NZ for her. After spending time back home he decided he felt it was right for him to be in NZ.

Perhaps coming back to the UK is his now only option to earn a living.

GELLING OUT!!!

I know that’s why I put the bit about family issues

No hard feelings from me at all but as another poster has said there is better centres out there.

He left to be with his missus who was hurt in a car accident and was without a club on returning home. I don’t follow too much NRL but I know early season it was looking promising for him but the Warriors have some decent centres on their books so it was always going to be hard to break in as a regular.
People may think he’s a prat both on and off the field but he added unpredictablity to a predictable attack at times and he is such a strong runner and hard to stop,for me he’s a well above average superleague centre which is a position we sorely need to strengthen and unless there is things behind the scenes we don’t know I think we should have been in for him at the right price.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there. Not quite good enough for consistent NRL appearances IMHO.

I guess it will all pan out in the fullness of time when we see our squad finalised for 2019 but you would have to say he would have been an improvement on Sarg.

With Bateman looking likely to be away as well I think he would have been a good addition to the backrow.

This however as stated above could all change once we know how our squad looks for next season.

Glad that Wigan as not gone for a returning player once they leave Wigan should be never to return hope Wigan as now found this out.