Quote ="morrisseyisawire"We can't afford to rest players even allowing for the short turnaround over the weekend. Besides certain players who are woefully out of form won't get any better sat in the stands.
Anyway, if we rested Myler and GOB had a blinder would Gareth become our first choice half-back or would he be canned off at the first opportunity?'"
I don't know where this idea has come from that TS has his favourites and has it in for G'OB no matter how well he plays.
Myler/Ratchford might not have been pulling up trees this season but these have been part of a team that has won trophies and been at the top of the league so they have got a little bit of leeway. G'OB has been OK but he has only been that, just OK. He goes through games looking decent, so he's an upgrade on other home grown halfbacks we've had before like Hulse and Duffy but for me he's not shown anything that has made me think he is going to be special.
G'OB is 22 now, when you think of Briers at that age (around the time Langer was here),he had a lot of downsides, his defence was flimsy, he got easily distracted chatting to refs, when things were going against us he would make mistakes under pressure especially kicking to touch on the full. But you could always see evidence that there was something special with Briers, he would win matches, at that age he went to the World Cup and had the Aussies backpedalling in the semi-final, he would have some storming games against top sides even back then.
G'OB doesn't have the downsides that a young Briers did but (for me anyway) he does not show anything special yet. I felt the same when he was at Saints, he looked like a player that would be a good understudy halfback in a good side, he can come in and do a job, but not a star.
If he was really pulling up trees and TS was leaving him out then that would look odd but he hasn't done that yet.
