Just a thought Mods, but maybe we could have a scapegoat thread as a sticky?

an opinion doesnt necessarily have to be correct. hence the argument.

Unfortunately, opinions are like ärseholes - Everybody has one and most of them stink.

Watching the 20's today Gelling is ahead of Thornley in terms of being ready for the first team.

He was big, strong and athletic and controlled the ball well in difficult conditions. Thornley is a beast of a lad but he made a couple of errors.

Bit harsh, he was being touted as the form centre in SL earlier in the year. He's cooled a bit recently (imo due to the pack losing complete dominance in all matches), but he's still up there.



They are some rare traits in centres now, lets be honest. Most centres in SL have abysmal defence, positionally and in contact. Just look at the likes of Turner, Welham etc they are woeful. Goulding is so, so safe. As to putting his winger away, think about how few centres are actually that good at it anymore. Lyon is easily the best centre in the the NRL. All he does is make the winger outside him look awesome, and that should be Goulding's aspiration too. The likes of Inglis, Hodges, Jennings, Morris etc are freakish athletes, but they don't glorify their wingers like Lyon. Strike isn't everything.




The amount of great reads Goulding has made this year, I seriously cannot believe you're saying this. He's been better in defence than Carmont this year (not attack though) imo.




Imo, and probably a fair few would disagree with this part, but 2012 Goulding has been better than 2010 Gleeson. Though I agree Carmont is way in front of both.




Hughes should be in the back row. Gelling vs Thornley will be interesting, could well be that they both end up on the left in a few years time once Pat is gone (I shudder at the thought).

Agree Re Gouding v Gleeson 2010 form.

Goulding's contribution to the team through the regular season has been far better than Gleeson's contribution where although solid in defence he contributed very little in attack.

I think people's memories RE. gleeson are clouded by his great GF game and his earlier form when playing for saints.

Finch was my scapegoat at that point but that tree bore no fruit so I only switched to Eric a couple of games later. I'll stick with Eric now though and hopefully he'll lose us a couple of important games.

He also had his shirt untucked at the LLS presentation. He's rubbish at fashion.

I'm very fickle.

Mines is Gene Miles.

Comes over here on a massive wage and big rep and has been injured since day one.

Cant see anything good to come of that deal....