You have chosen in both the past and the present to constantly put him down and blame him for everything. You have blamed him for poor recruitment despite no clear evidence of this. In my opinion GH has obviously been in charge of recruitment and has been reluctant to spend money until after Mac was replaced.

You choose to give Furner credit for enhancements to the games of several players. The only player that has performed better this season is Dwyer and you could argue Walker has gone backwards. In the past year you would have expected the youngsters to have enhanced their games with or without a coach as they mature physically and gain more experience.

What is historically clear is that McDermott inherited a squad of players that were past their peak and were increasingly showing their age. He never enjoyed the luxury of a marquee player let lone two, and he had the great handicap of several seasons with half his squad out of action with long term injuries and he lost one whole pre-season training due to floods. When the spine of the team retired or moved away his boss never recruited quality replacements and at the time the quality coming from the academy was not good enough yet he introduced several youngsters.

Despite all these factors Mac was able to motivate the team and produce games plans to win a record number of trophies and outperform all the competition in the business end of the season on a regular basis. This was a unique and fine performance that should not be under rated and over the last year both Sinfield and Furner have got less from the squad despite several new signings.

I have never been one to call for a coach to be sacked and I think Furner deserves more time and could become a successful first team coach. However he did not come with a good record as head coach and his interviews do not fill me with confidence and I get the feeling he has relied on Sinfield's flawed opinions regarding team selection and player assessment.

Until we sign a class half back who is able to read and control a game we will continue to flounder. You cannot blame McDermott for this over the last year at the very least.

So Watkins and Hall were on more than 150K ? and Sir Kev was wrong when he said we had not had Marquee players before this season ?

Where has Sinfield named players he wanted to move on?

Yes, and Yes, if you want to put it like that. Or you can simply look at it for what it is, a play on words. It is the first time we have Marquee overseas players, it isn't the first time we have used the Marquee player rule on the cap, or at least according to Hetherington previously it wasn't.

From what I recall Pete Smith wrote an article in the YEP very early on in the season, possibly even pre-season with a list of players that it was understood from Sir Kev were available for immediate release if they could find another club

Players we could all have named liked Walters, Mullalley, Ormondroyd were on it but then there were the likes of Golding, Cuthbo and Parcell, although Cuthbo came out pretty quickly on social media to say he knew nothing of being told he was surplus to requirements.

Furner in?