Slight difference between playing against Superleague opposition every week & having 3/4 seasons of experience at that level, to playing against Aus/NZ in your first international tournament. Plenty of other top class players have been poor against the Aussies too.

You often get involved in arguments like these surrounding the technicalities of RL, but each time you get shown up. It's probably down to your tactic of going onto the Opta stats on the SL website, finding a stat you think suits your argument ,and coming to a VERY basic conclusion (Chase's try assists here for example), without taking into account any other factors out of said players control.

Very one dimensional and shows a distinct lack of knowledge about how the game is played.

Yeah your right a couple of weeks training and 3 or 4 games should be more than enough instinctively know your role within a team and how your team mates play and to develop that telepathic understanding with your team mates so you can replicate your club form. Elite sport is a piece of p1$$.

Thanks for that Sandra

Bet has a Level 2 RL coaching badge don't you know?

Maybe Hull could get her in to teach Chase some '6 o'clock passing' or a 'punt kick'?

If he was a class as you claim it would be no problem for him. I watched an 18 yr number 6 in a trial game last week playing with players he had never played with before, now he was class and ran the show, that is my definition of class, a player who knows his role and can adapt that role in most situations.

I have not said I do not think Chase is good, I think he is good, however I do not think he is class and as good as some on here are making out, he was indeed last season MOS but I doubt he would be anywhere near it this year imo.

oh dear.

There's a very good case to be made that Chase does indeed know the role he is best suited to and most capable of, and that it is actually Steve McNamara who is the one who is missing this.

SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the reigning MOS is crap.
Because he had very average games versus Oz & NZ proves that point
and as a result lets just buy dobbo who hasnt played in anything worthy of note, for any team worthy of note or done pretty much anything worthy of note but is a very good half!!!
all based on a level 2 badge and watching trialists
this gets better KEEP GOING GUYS

Rangi chase is alongside tompkins probably the only 2 players in SL whom really have the X factor
Dobbo is a very good half who would not let us down and has been outstanding in a very average KR side similar to Holdsworth at Salford

Your probably right tbh, Chase appears to have struggled to adapt his game to suit, maybe you are right and Gentle wants unstructured, one thing is for sure it will be a gamble but if it works it will be entertaining.

your not wrong, i think he will eventually give us a free running team whom promote the ball even in their own end!!! hence why he wants young, slimmer more mobile forwards who can bang for fun but are not akin to simply carting the ball up and dying with it
Pitts for example.....

Dobbo aint coming we would have signed him when he was offered earlier in the season I don't think Gentle rates him and anyway the way things are over at the Allam 'show us ya money' Stadium Hudge would lose too much face if he sold him. Gentle certainly rates chase because he told me he scared him to death everytime he got the ball on Saturday I think thats why they are really trrying with this one. Hope we get chase but starting to wonder now think its becoming a real long shot myself!!