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.

You complained about the squad strength. Did you do that because you felt:
(a) the players in the squad were good enough to win
(b) the players in the squad weren't good enough.
?

Clearly we weren't a player or too short, and neither were pegs and holes a significant problem either.

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?

what part don't you understand?
shall i speak slower?

i felt we were a couple of players short,not in quality,but in squad size. we were never able to really rest or rotate much.smith made a good fist of playing centre but was never a specialist there.

Stick to the honest opinions. There'd be little point reading if everyone posted the same stuff

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.

What we did have was a coach who knew what was required to defend the title - something the likes of yourself, Danny and Gareth were seriously questioning during last season.

For me last year provided the worst standard of rugby across the whole of SL I can remember - we didn't play anything like as well as we did in 2008 let alone 2004 so we probably were a centre short the problem was the standard had fallen so much it didn't matter

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.