Fascinating. Noble was in charge of contract negotiations, not Caisley who was on the brink of standing down as well. Led to Robbie Paul telling him he'd lost the dressing room as Leon and Peacock were allowed to leave the club with Noble having either made little effort to keep them or in Peacock's case, offending him by lying. It's hard to accept how such a situation was allowed to happen. Within a few short months of the GF Noble and Fielden had also left.

Duffy now states that Iestyn wasn't on what was rumoured and other player were on similar. That's not what Hood regime and their friends came to this board with between 2007-2012. The take then was that the Harris deal and it's fallout was the reason the club was in financial decline and not the utterly dreadful recruitment.

Not sure Nobby would have enjoyed watching that.

From that video, it sounds like the real downfall of the Bulls was down to Noble. Who’d have thought that?

It did feel like that was the underlying narrative. Brian Noble wanted to run the entire show. Coaching, contracts, player retention etc. The old spinning plates idiom comes to mind. All of Noble's plates came crashing down at once. Interesting comments from Duffy on Iestyn not being the only one on a sizeable contract at the the time. I assume Lesley, Fielden and Hape were all on something similar.

I've had healthy mistrust of Noble since reading Peacock's autobiography. The stunts he pulled at the time must have been unsettling e.g. trying to swap Reardon, Langley and A.N.Other for Ellis without telling them he was going to try, sh4tting on Lynch to bring Morley in.. lord know's what else he did that hasn't come out.

The anger is still there in Peacock's voice and body language even after all these years.

You mean the guy who is now proferring his wisdom to the current leadership

The guy who thinks there isn't a problem with player fitness?