Yet another excellent performance by the beaver. I dont care what anyone says about age this guy is class and was class in every game for us. We should have never ever got rid of him. Big mistake

Same could be said about letting morrison and solomona go alongside Menzies? Too much of a gamble, age and injuries....it would have been sods law had we kept them that they would have been injures or in Menzies case too old

How many games did menzies miss for us while he was with us? oh yeh 1 game. Morrison half of season and same for solomona. Age doesnt mean anything. If he can play and keeps himself fit theres no reason to get rid. He was awesome for us and if now providing the guds at catalan week after week

Loved Beaver and he was a great player for us. I imagine he was on a fair wedge though, the future is with Whitehead/Olbison/Bateman.

Yes but wouldnt it have been great to have had menzies for longer teaching our rising stars. Its crazy to me we ever let himgo

I'd have loved to have him at the club, but at the time we let him go we needed the cap space. We may not have used it, but when we were in the market for a halfback you need that behind you.

As has been said - Olbison/Whitehead/Donno plus Bateman/Addy will do us well for years to come.


I'll add to that that Olbison is starting to look the part - his defence is excellent.

With the team we have now I no doubt that beaver would have made us a miles better team. That's how high I rate him

I agree we'd be a better side, but you also have to think that we want to keep hold of our young stars and they won't wait forever.

Menzies was quality tonight against us, however we are much better off now as champions through investing in our young backrowers, they do the job, they don't have to be flashy try scorers to do the job.

Hindsight is wonderful but at the time we had a full quota with o/s players contracted for further years and we needed to reduce wage bill to add strength in numbers & depth.

It just seems to be our luck that players who we let go because they are old or injury prone then go on to play brilliantly and injury-free for the the next two seasons

So why sign Sibbit and Elima then.

so we have some experienced players to call on while likes of whitehead,olbison donaldson etc develop? And I'd guess Elima and Sibbits combined wage is still a significant saving over what we were paying menzies allowing us to strengthen over areas of team with the surplus. Fact we didnt spend up to cap isnt really an issue as we had transfer targets that didnt come off.

Keep believing that if you want but I don't believe it.

I'd have loved to keep Menzies at the club to sooner or later go into our coaching setup as well.