I was watching NRL at the weekend and David Gower made his debut for West Tigers in their defeat of the Bulldogs.

Good to see a former red playing in the NRL - although does pose the question of why we let him go.....seemed an ok player to me.

Not sure how many times you saw him play from such a distance!
Another armchair viewer

ignoring the childish bitchy comment, are you saying that Gower didn't deserve to kept on? IMO he was looking like a good prospect and I think we were very silly in letting him go.

Ignore Teddington Red. He's a miserable southerner!!

If my memory serves me right, TRed was a Carige believer. Probably even liked Corvo!!

Strikes me the club can't win on this one - if we keep a promisng young Aussie then there's criticism for keeping out British players, if we let one go who subsequently does well then more criticism. FWIW I though Gower looked a good prospect, but if I had to choose between keeping him or keeping Sidlow, Adamanson, Jewitt etc. then I think the right decision was made

Think the ball was in Gowers court & the club felt he took too long to decide if he wanted to stay, & the club gave his spot to someone else pity as I thought he did ok for us

Gower had a British Passport if I remember rightly.

what about stephan myler he is on the verge of representing england

I stand corrected - cheers.

Correct on all counts !

But he was cr[size=9.[/sizeap a t rugby league.

yeh but yo gotta give him credit for developing into an england international harder to get an england call up in union then league....

Did you see the big error Ste Myler made on Sunday against Worcester? He tried an angled attacking kick that went no more than 3ft high and landed straight in the hands of an opposing player who ran, offloaded and a try was conceeded!



From what I witnessed of Ste Myler yesterday if he's considered International quality it doesn't say much for Rugby Union!

CORRECT

I've been following DG's career since he left us and from what I've read he's started to hit the potential we saw here. I think BBM is right about him not getting back to the club soon enough when an offer had been made, I'm sure he'd jump at the chance of having another crack over here...

The best overseas player we put absolutely no faith in.

Oh well, it was nice to meet his dad in Perpignan that fateful day.

I miss Sean Rutcherson



Was a great signing that lad.

I thought Gower was ok, but i wouldnt swap him for adamson or any of our youngsters we kept

i've talked to him quite a bit since he left us through the magic of facebook, he's always said he loved it here and would love to play for us again. i told him to get on the blower to simms

I would love to see Gower and Adamson in the 2nd row, think that would be a brilliant combination and as dynamic as i've seen in god knows how many years.

Seeing as we have just lost to brilliant youngsters time the club got us back onside and did something proactive and brought back DG.

DG is a lad that allways gives his best...allways done it tough only ever played for 2 clubs ...wests / tigers & salford we could do a lot worse than resigning him...one thing you know he allways gives his best..

Yes!!! Would have him back a.s.a.p as someone previously posted, Adamson & Gower on the park could be awesome, never took a backward step.

Do you think the fans liked Gower because he was young and didn't come with a reputation? It's just that historically the majority of our overseas players always seem to take the brunt of our supporters frustrations when things aren't going well.

MAYBE BUT HES A WAN KER