Luke Gale is the rugby league equivalent to that bloke in nightclubs who turns up dressed to the nines, buying stupid drinks and trying it on with everyone's Mrs but when confronted, hides behind his biggest mate still gobbing off.

The man is a grade A Bellwhiff and if it wasn't for his mate Jon Wells harping on about him every other minute, constantly picking up and praising him on things that every other player also does just as well then no one would care less about him.

He's a product of the Sky hype train and is in no way shape or from a test match half. When he played against the Kiwi's he got absolutely mullered. Liability.

Just out of interest, who is a test match half then? Kevin Brown, Richie Myler.....Declan Patton?! I reckon he's the best of a mediocre bunch.

First of all - I don't recognise your archetypal 'that' bloke; and secondly, what a load of bitter, envious tosh.

Like it or not, Gale is currently the best hb in SL, with Williams at Wigan not far behind; if you can't recognise that, you don't know what you're watching. Like many before him, he may well have a touch of arrogant swagger about his game - but I think that comes with the territory of a smaller, skillful guy, going up against the bodybuilding monsters of SL - and finding a way to not only survive, but outplay them.

In an era when size, strength and athleticism trumps all, I'm happy to see players like Gale, Williams, Sneyd, Myler and Miller demonstrating that skill, guile and intelligence still plays an important part in the game; otherwise, it's just Rugby Union.

* Yawn *

Widdop, Williams or Smith.

Test match rugby is completely different to superleague. Gale doesn't fit in to the system. whether you care to acknowledge it or not. The sky team would love you to believe he's the be all and end all and the missing link for England but he isn't.

Smith ????

My thoughts too.

He doesn't fit into a system when he's played on the wrong side. He's a left-sided half-back, not a right side, but yet got shoehorned there to accommodate Widdop and Williams (who are both left-sided). Then Brown got shoved on to the right (he's another left-sided half).

Play him on his better side and you'll see better results. For me, Williams is a natural half-back and I think could cope with playing on the right side but even then it may not suit him either.

But I'd say his reputation comes from having 46 try assists last year (nearly double anyone else) and 10 already this year. Plus his 15 tries. Nothing to do with Sky.

For comparison purposes:

Smith: 12 assists, 5 tries
Williams: 31 try assists, 14 tries
Sneyd: 32 try assists, 7 tries

Ohhh yeah silly me, i'd completely forgotten about all those 3 players who have been superb for England in recent years, helping us defeat the Aussies & Kiwis on numerous occasions

Get real mate, Williams is a decent prospect, but that's all right now, just because Widdop plays in the NRL doesn't make him a world beater either, if he were Australian, there would be probably 10 others in front of him for their shirt in the national team. Not for one minute am I saying Luke Gale is the answer to all our prayers, but given the way he's performed the last couple of seasons, I think he deserves a decent shot at playing for his country.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh. So he wasn't on his preferred side? well then, now it all makes sense... I do apologise.

Jesus wept...






Yep, the Smith who's a ~GF winner, CC winner, Double winner and a lance Todd winner. But yeah Gale's the man