Quote: barham red "Anyway you look at it it was an embarrassing statement. Ellis wasn't only the best 2nd rower he was the best player on the park. You went 10-0 up and looked reasonable comfortable. Ellis went off and we scored 16 and you looked rattled and lost a bit of discipline. Ellis back on and the whole team seemed to calm down and play.
Massive influence and almost goes unnoticed as its what he does, remember Mick Vella having a similar influence with us back in the day.'"
Certainly doesn't go unnoticed with me, he's absolutely fantastic and we are without doubt a different team when he's off the pitch. It happens week after week, look at how many tries we concede when he has his spell on the sidelines, it isn't a coincidence. Radford generally rests him 10 mins either side of half time and for me I count down the minutes for his return.
