Quote: AXE2GRIND "Cutting out the bull**** according to Mac
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Personally, id have put it down to spending CA$21,000,000 in competitions over 3 years....thats more money spent in 3 years by St Helens 2019/St Helens 2018/Leeds 2017 combined..... So if youre going to spend almost double the amount it takes to win 3 SL grand finals,, but do so in the lower divisions, you can hardly claim it as proof of future success..... They're re at ground zero now. No more buying titles.
Do the wolfpack management believe that they have done anything other than buy promotion so far?'"
I think you're taking the comment out of context.
Yes, the money is certainly an aid, but I think the point McDermott is addressing is that his challenge was to deal with the issues that Paul Rowley-coached teams have long been critiqued on - that their idea of "tough" was about niggles, cheap-shots and ill-discipline. Teams coached by Rowley often looked good when things were going their way, but the cracks showed when it came to the crunch. Last year's Toronto team, with the same money thrown at it but coached by Rowley, may not have got through that Grand Final against Featherstone, such was the way they were frustrated (and even bettered) by Rovers for so much of the game.
As for the other comments, I again can't find much to disagree with. People know my views on TW, and I'm happy for people to disagree with them. But there is a section of the UK support base that wants to insist that Toronto cannot possibly succeed, that they will not succeed and that, even if they are wrong on the first two, that they should not be [iallowed [/ito succeed.
Believing the first two is fine. It's not unreasonable to suggest that it can't or won't work given what we know about the challenges involved, but I think that believing third one is just rancorous.
