Whatever we pay Sibbitt, it's too much

I do think that is with the benefit of hindsight, to be honest.

I think it's fair to say that most players, in any sport, as they get older, tend to get more injuries and also take longer to get over them, even players who had previously had few problems (I certainly did!), and in his last season with us Morro had as much time on the sidelines as he did on the pitch, so I can understand why the club, thought he was quite likely to continue in this vein and declined to give him another contract. I think you also have to remember that we'd had a lot of other injuries as well as Glenn, so someone (coach or board, I dunno) made an understandable decision, it was a wrong decision as it turned out, [ibut at the time it was made[/i it was understandable.

FWIW, I would have loved him to stay as player or coach, and to be honest, I'm delighted for him that he's got over the injuries. I guess we'll have to give the coach time with Sibbitt and see if he really can do magic.....I don't want to be over critical at this early stage but he's not been particularly impressive as yet.

So Sibbit may not be pulling up any trees yet, however on the flip side we gave them Godwin. Which more than makes up for it.

Nope, I said just that, and more, when the deal was announced.


But did they though? I am not so sure. It was never announced that "We are getting rid of Morro as we think he's injury prone". And again, I can't understand at all how anyone could logically believe his future likelihood of injuries was anything to do with the injuries he'd had. You couldn't make any such connection. Plus, he's a very "young" older player, and runs around like a spring chicken. He never looked remotely end-of-life to me.

Nope, much more likely to be a plain bad decision, simples.

i miss nick zisti

The club have made two major mistakes in the last decade:-
1. Signing Iestyn Harris
2. Not keeping Menzies.

3. Appointing Steve McNamara
4. Not sacking Steve McNamara.

1 - without a doubt.
2 - I suspect releasing Morro was, with hindsight, the more serious loss.

I don't think signing Iestyn Harris was a mistake. He was a good player for us IMO.

The circumstances around the Harris signing and the way the old chairman handled the situation was very poor. If we conducted ourselves a bit better and made sure Leeds had first refusal on Harris coming back to play RL then we could probably have signed him without the silly legal wranglings and a spolied relationship between the two clubs.

The Menzies non signing is only a mistake with the benefit of hindsight. Perhaps the board could employ a psychic to prevent things like this happening again?

If Orford stayed and didn't get "homesick", I'm fairly certain he would be classed as a success and worth Menzies not signing. That's the risk with quota players, I'd hope that the club don't have regrets about Menzies.

I don't see the big fuss over Menzies - he played most of last season for you didn't he? No point having him if the rest of the team aren't firing.

Agree with ME on the appointment of McNamara being up there with the signing of Harris (of course it was a mistake - the implications of the latter were far more severe than the legal wranglings - why do you think JP wanted out?). Think Leeds may have made a similar error with McDermott and Lowes (as predicted by many on this board). If Leeds don't put in a good performance against Hudds this week it will be a very disappointing first 10 games for coach McDermott.

At the time, I was very pleased with the signing. With hindsight I can only say it proved a disastrous mistake. I tried to convince myself for ages, but eventually concluded that he was nowhere near worth what he cost (in every way). All the troubles the signing caused the club would have been bad enough had Harris actually performed up to expectations. But surely, by near-universal consent, he performed some considerable way short of expectations? For whatever reason? That was the rueful view of the club too, as expressed to me the highest level.