i bet if it was NSW playing tonight gallen would play
Argue all you like about whether Gallen would play if it was a one off game tonight instead of a week in week out game.
Key issue is come finals time we need him and the rest of the squad fit and ready to go.
It doesn't bother me one iota that he is missing tonight in the grand scheme of things.
It bothers me. He is our highest paid and arguably best player and one hell of an on field leader and contributor. Tonights game is important as hell for many reasons listed and we should have/need him playing. If I am not mistaken his last game for his major employer was the loss against the Rabbits (which was a shocker by his standards) on May 7. Through Origin commitments and Origin caused injury he will now have missed the games against Bulldogs, Storm, Titans, Warriors, Broncos and now Roosters.
I chose the quotes from these 3 posters because they are contemporaneous and they illustrate, in some small way, something I was worried about way back before SOO II when Gall left the field vs Parra.
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I'll have to ask rhetorically again, who has Gall's ear more, Sticky or Flanno?
I mentioned before there is huge rust potential if this perception (that Gall sees origin as/more than important) than the Sharks gains legs.
So, against my regular persona I say just drop it. Have the shytes if you must but keep it off here.
It's minor but the evidence is even in this thread how this shyte can cause splitting.
It's almost like we've been "allowed" to start making excuses.
Well not me, not as per usual, not this year.
The man is hurt. He's not playing tonight. He might not play for a month. So be it. Move on team, do your best and savour the return when it happens.
I've said it before and will reiterate. This is a different Sharks outfit. Different thinking, different mennerisms and body language, different commitment, different attitude. Different everything.
We'll be right, mates
