Quote: Sal Paradise "My response is simple the only people who know how seriously Melbourne took this game are the coaches and players of the Storm. Anything else is opinion - is yours any more valid than mine no - is mine any more valid than yours no - simple really?'"
You set a criteria from which to be able to make a reasonable assessment. I didn't contest
your stated yardstick as it seemed reasonable also to me as a fair indication of Melbourne's intent.
When that criteria failed to back your view you disappeared from the thread despite it being brought back to the top of the front page week after week with each new Melbourne team selection in the NRL Regular Rounds. Those selections clearly indicating that Melbourne had brought their best squad available only missing those individuals who were injured at the time and would remain unavailable in the opening rounds back in the NRL.
More than a year on and you appear only to want to distance yourself from your original benchmark and instead introduce a new hypothesis, that a collection of Australian and New Zealander sportsmen with a highly competitive coach could be somewhat indifferent to putting one over the English with a World title at stake.
So earlier when you questioned (although it appeared more like a statement or at least rhetorical in nature)
you're still not prepared to do so in this instance?
