Your posts from Easter this year are here for all to see. I don't need to dredge them up again. Not to mention the stuff you said during the title winning 2007 season.

Like I said, I like the new attitude and I hope you maintain it if things get a little wobbly next season.

suggest you do drag them up then. looked at my preview where i said at the moment we "look like a disjointed shambles" which we did. i suppose i could lie and not give an honest opinion but then i would be labelled a .

and who brought up the topic of should bluey be sacked if he didn't win the GF?

Type at whatever speed you like Tad. You might want to think it through a little first though. I thought my questioning might have helped you there.

All the players who played in the 2009 GF were at the club for the 2007 & 2008 GF, I'm sure there will be some who still don't think the squad is good enough.

It seems to me that the temptation which most fans fall into is to compare the weakest player of their own team with the best of all the rest of the league. On that basis it is easy to say that the team could be stronger.

Under a salary cap it is virtually impossible to assemble a team where each of the squad is also the best player in their position in the entire competion.

The last couple of coaches have done a good job at getting the entire team to play together and to improve the level of the "weaker" players whilst keeping up the high standards of the "star" players.

I completely agree. I still feel a lot of posters don't fully understand the implications of the salary cap - particularly the "hard cap" that has been in place the last couple of years.
The 2010 squad we have been able to put together must be a remarkable piece of financial work.

Fair enough, if you so wish.

Will take me a while as I go away for a week or so tonight but I'll get round to it, including the bile you posting during the 2007 season.

Yep, keeping the vast majority of the squad together while adding some quality in Eastwood and strength in depth with Coady, Pitts, Ambler, Amor etc is impressive. Hetherington deserves a lot of praise, something he doesn't usually get from a lot of fans who often just complain about the price of tickets/replica shirts.

I did question the way the team were coached during points of the season yes.

Was it really a poor standard of rugby, or was it more likely that the increased standards of our opponents made it appear we were playing worse than we had in past years?

Agree with all of that pal

May I be the first to acknowledge the debt we owe to Bluey and the lads, who despite the obvious lack of a forward and right centre, produced an an epic winning season. Have a good Christmas lads, next season is looking good!