Re: Wheeler : Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:01 pm  

If Wheeler was a Horse he would be in a Beef burger by now.

Really sad to see him get another knock.

You hold your hand in your mouth every time he plays, and keep your fingers crossed that he will get through the game.

He has heaps of natural talent, but will never show it for as long as he is living the life of a tampon.

I just hope this is the one knock he suffers this season and he can then get back to playing in the first team.

Re: Wheeler : Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:09 pm  

I think half the reason we've not wanted to see him unloaded is the fear that another club will pick him up, sort his injuries and he'd be a star against us.
I really don't think that's ever going to happen now - either that or our medical staff are failing him.

Re: Wheeler : Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:13 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

If Wheeler was a Horse he would be in a Beef burger by now.

Really sad to see him get another knock.

You hold your hand in your mouth every time he plays, and keep your fingers crossed that he will get through the game.

He has heaps of natural talent, but will never show it for as long as he is living the life of a tampon.

I just hope this is the one knock he suffers this season and he can then get back to playing in the first team.

Mark,
The truth is he's been overrated from day one. You saw him getting overrun in the U20's final back in 2008/2009. He was outstanding as a 16 year old but no one at Saints had the balls to bin him at about 20.

I don't normally bag young players but this love affair at Saints is laughable.

Re: Wheeler : Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:14 pm  

He's a joke. If he leaves and goes on to be good for another club, fine, Saints have done all they can and given him more chances than any player deserves.

He simply cannot be given another chance in the first team.

Re: Wheeler : Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:15 pm  

Bags of potential, great footowrk and the ability to make you go' how about that'. The problem as someone has already alluded to is the 52 games in 5 years. That is simply unacceptable.

I hope for his sake that it isnt a bad one and that he recovers in good speed but i think his time is quickly coming at Saints.

Re: Wheeler : Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:17 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Mark,
The truth is he's been overrated from day one. You saw him getting overrun in the U20's final back in 2008/2009. He was outstanding as a 16 year old but no one at Saints had the balls to bin him at about 20.

I don't normally bag young players but this love affair at Saints is laughable.

He was the only decent player in a Saints shirt that day. Kicking i think 2 forty twentys and making a couple of breaks.

The reason Wigan demolished Saints was that your pack absolutely battered ours.

FWIW i used to regard Wheeler as a very good young player, but Lomax and Eastmond had the x factor about them.

Re: Wheeler : Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:36 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

The guy gets injured alot and yes it maybe time to let go, but no need to kick the lad when he's down.

I'm not kicking him when he's down. I really feel for him but it's time we take an objective look at this.

Re: Wheeler : Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:34 am  

Saddened! wrote:

He's a joke. If he leaves and goes on to be good for another club, fine, Saints have done all they can and given him more chances than any player deserves.

He simply cannot be given another chance in the first team.

Your comment is a joke.

This injury was caused by him making a very brave tackle on the leeds winger hall. Wheeler dragged him into touch over him and the effect was hall landing on the top half of wheelers body with his legs trapped underneath.

The comment by Sky and Ande that he has only played 52 games in 5 years does not take into account the long periods when he had recovered from injury but Rush / Simmons would not drop the lomasgill combination just to make way for him. He had to wait for some other poor sod to get injured.

He certainly was far from being our worst player tonight.

Re: Wheeler : Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:35 am  

Those who give stick to Wheeler should be awfully asahmed of themselves. The lad as dreamt of playing for his boyhood club since the age of 4.

He does not choose to be injured. Do i think we should let him go ? Maybe ! But the amount of stick he gets in unreal.

Re: Wheeler : Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:31 am  

Saddened! wrote:

He's a joke. If he leaves and goes on to be good for another club, fine, Saints have done all they can and given him more chances than any player deserves.

He simply cannot be given another chance in the first team.

Every so often I come across someone who should have been shot at birth. You and anyone else who brand Wheeler a "joke" because he gets injured fall into this category. Fair enough if you think we should cut our losses and move him on thats your opinion but to brand someone a joke is ridiculous. I'm sure he doesn't enjoy getting injured and seeing his career go down the drain. Idiot.