Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:40 pm  

Toddy Senior wrote:

What is wrong with some of you...? Wheeler has had bad luck with injuries over the past few years but comments such as "waste of time, get rid of him..." hardly help the poor lad with his confidence. He's strong and quick and we should be encouraging him, not trying to destroy him. Unfortunately, so many of the comments on here are negative and I frequently ask myself why I bother to visit the site. "Saddened" in particular should come out from under his bridge and jump in the bl**dy river.

I feel sorry for him. Genuinely.

However, you can be as strong and fit as you like in the gym, or on the training field. But if you can't carry those attributes out onto a playing field, then you're no more use to the squad than a weak, slow armchair player like myself.

Life isn't fair, and Wheeler has been unlucky. But we can't afford, as a club, to carry on paying for his bad luck through the gap he fills on the salary cap. If he's injured again, then he really needs to find an alternative career, and maybe play his rugby at an amateur level where his body can take the impacts.

Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:56 pm  

I lasted longer than most, keeping faith that one day he'll get past his injury problems, but even I've given up over the last year.

Half of it was the fear that if we released him, he'd end up a star for someone else.

To be honest, I think I'd rather see that now than continue along the path of repetetive dissapointment that we have right now.

Give him to Wakey, I say. See if they can do anything with him. If they don't, we're right. If they do, well, we can take a little solice in the fact that one of our youngsters finally managed to get it together.

There are stories about the Bath medical team being amazed at how badly Eastmond's injuries had been looked after. I do sometime wonder whether that part of our set up is not up to scratch?

Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:45 pm  

And if the reports of him geting injured are bollox?

Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:21 pm  

Don Brennan wrote:

And if the reports of him geting injured are bollox?

Then we'll continue to hope this time is the injury free run he needs. Fingers crossed.

Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:46 pm  

That's interesting about the bath medical team?? That is a worry

Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:29 pm  

saintcj wrote:

That's interesting about the bath medical team?? That is a worry

In Eastmond's case, he only got injured when we were getting beat.

Bath should worry about that part of his game.

Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:37 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

In Eastmond's case, he only got injured when we were getting beat.

Bath should worry about that part of his game.

Or when he'd decided to 'save himself' for union. He made Perry look interested at times.

Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:46 pm  

He had so much potential as a Half-Back, but injuries seem to have taken that away to some extent. I remember him scoring a try away at Wakefield (I think) where he took the ball 15 metres out, side stepped three men, and scored beside the posts. When he has played, I don't see that spark that he had back then, and that's down to injuries. I genuinely feel for him, and I can imagine how tough it must have been. He's worked so hard to get himself back out onto the field, and within weeks of his return, he ends up picking himself up again, and going through the same old script. Not easy.

He's a local lad who had great potential, but their is only so much time the club can give him. Pains me to say it, but I'm not sure how many chances he's got left.

Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:46 pm  

People moaning that fans lost patience with wheeler is silly really. He's been given chance after chance and although it isn't his fault, the club can't keep using its money to pay him to sit in the stands and pay for his medical bills.

Its just a shame its not worked out with Gaz. Sometimes a change of club can turn a players luck so IMO wheeler going could be best for both club and the player.

Re: wheeler : Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:01 pm  

He wasnt taken off injured at all,he just didnt play the full game as it was his first game back.