Show pony would suggest he has no end product which is clearly wrong.

It did make me laugh on Saturday when he was running the ball and dummying and jinking in and out without a defender being able to lay a finger on him and the usual lot were screaming to "just get hold of him". Err the reason they can't get near him is because he is class and they have no idea what he's going to do.

I could have used the other stats which show Dobbo in the better light, at the end of the day you have no evidence that Chase would have increased his stats in the 10 games he was suspended/banned. The stats are based on performance this season, simple.


I have never said he is the next Mal Meninga, however you have spent months using him as our scapegoat and claiming he is rubbish when he simply is not.

Yet the last time we played Cas he did nothing, where was his class then ? or indeed this class when he has played International ?

Similar to Chase in an International shirt then

Chase has been quality in a crap castleford side so with better players in Hulls side would be a hell of alot better you could say that about holdsworth and dobson also

Chase has played with the best in the country at International level, he was not quality then

So if he never shows quality why did he get man of steel?

even our most consistent players have bad games or go missing

Because he was better last season, this season he has been no where near imo, and like I mentioned his International appearances were very average, Chase would be a good signing on what we have but I would not define him as class, some class touches maybe but not class

And you would have been better off doing so. As I said, you're perfectly entitled to think and say that Dobson is a better player. In fact, I haven't even claimed you're wrong. What I find bizarre is to use a stat that on full analysis suggests the opposite of what you are saying as evidence to support your argument.

The stats are based on this season's performance, you're right. And what they say is that when Chase has played he has provided significantly more try assists than Dobson.



I haven't used him as our scapegoat, we have had more problems than just him. I have said he is pants though, and the fact that Steve McNamara has now picked him for the England Knights (coincidentally in the first squad since he has signed for Saints) does not lead me to change that opinion. We are well shut of him.

Again, where have I said different?

My point was again your inconsistency and selective criticism. You call Chase a show pony as part of why you'd prefer Dobson, yet he's the same. It's like saying you don't want a Stella because you don't like lager, so can you have a Carling instead please?

You are literally the biggest contradiction on this entire site. Championing Dobson while at the same time lambasting Chase as a show Pony who sometimes doesn't perform is just so nonsensical it could only come from you.

The one thing I will say in Chase's defence at international level is that he is asked to play an entirely different role to that which he plays for Castleford, which really doesn't help. I've never understood in any sport why national coaches have a habit of picking players based on what they do at club level and then asking them to do something completely different. Either pick them to do what they're good at, or pick somebody else who can do what you want.