Saddened! wrote:
Meli is going to leave an enormous hole in our backs. We're not even attempting to replace him apparently, which is strange when you look how good Jones is doing in the second row. Percival is going to be under a bit of pressure next season. If he fails, it'll leave us in another awkward situation like we were in when we realised we had no halfbacks.
Yeah he is. Who else in the backs will we have to consistently give stupid penalties away when we get ourselves into good field position in key games? Or to provide gormless expressions to the ref when 15000 other people in the ground can see he did it will also be sorely missed. LMS does that very well in the forwards but Meli's utter stupidity and countless errors will be irreplaceable in our backline.
I accept he's been 'better' with ball in hand and centre is probably his best spot but during his tenure at Saints he's just made too many stupid, unprofessional cock ups that spoil his game for me. Opposition coaches haven't targeted him year on year for nothing.
3 years too late for me. Good riddance.