Martin Gleeson : Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:59 pm  

whats happened to him?
a few weeks ago a stress related illnes was mentioned.....any updates?

Re: martin gleeson. : Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:45 pm  

Too tempting

Re: martin gleeson. : Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:54 pm  

camping with longy at the v festival

Re: Martin Gleeson : Sat Aug 20, 2011 3:56 pm  

Stress can be very debilitating. Occasionally, it can manifest itself in serious symptoms, such as knee pain, for example. He should probably see a specialist about getting the right medication for his problem. If he hasn't already.

Re: Martin Gleeson : Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:47 pm  

Roy Haggerty wrote:

Stress can be very debilitating. Occasionally, it can manifest itself in serious symptoms, such as knee pain, for example. He should probably see a specialist about getting the right medication for his problem. If he hasn't already.

Pity he was a quality player

Re: Martin Gleeson : Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:02 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

Pity he was a quality player

Total waste of pure talent. He has/had the best foot work I've ever seen, he was fast and strong.

Should have been worldclass but blew it.

However, I've had few good nights out with him and one of the best nights out I've ever had in blackpool with him.

Re: Martin Gleeson : Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:23 am  

St pete wrote:

Total waste of pure talent. He has/had the best foot work I've ever seen, he was fast and strong.

Should have been worldclass but blew it.

However, I've had few good nights out with him and one of the best nights out I've ever had in blackpool with him.

ah so you are the one to blame for his down fall. you are sean long i claim my free fifty pound bet. against saints of course.

Re: Martin Gleeson : Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:25 am  

bewareshadows wrote:

ah so you are the one to blame for his down fall. you are sean long i claim my free fifty pound bet. against saints of course.

He's his own down fall.

I can't be longy, he'd never be up at this time on a Sunday morning

Re: martin gleeson. : Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:15 am  

St.Ben wrote:

camping with longy at the v festival

He was indeed.

Re: Martin Gleeson : Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:07 pm  

St pete wrote:

Total waste of pure talent. He has/had the best foot work I've ever seen, he was fast and strong.

Should have been worldclass but blew it.

I don't agree that MG underdelivered on his talent as a player. He may have attracted bad publicity but as a player he proved himself as one of the best centres in the world, he performed against top sides in SL, he performed against the Aussies. In overall terms he was very good rather than world class, compare him to the best centre I've seen at Warrington, Jonathan Davies, and the two had similar footwork but Davies had three yards of pace on him and that made him much more dangerous. Gleeson was never an out and out paceman and he would always be slightly limited because of that like Wellens as well. But given his natural abilities I thought Gleeson proved himself against the best and he couldn't have done any more.

The only thing he wasted was the chance to win more trophies, if he hadn't have gone gambling on that match he could have won a couple more Challenge Cups.