Quote ninearches="ninearches"Chris Hicks was a brilliant signing & it was a ridiculous decision to tear his contract up in favour of giving J.Monaghan a job with his bro.
As for Henry Fa'afilli he also had a lot of assistance from the boot of Lee Briers.
As for recent years,for whatever reason, our player recruitment policy has generally been substandard.'"
I think it was a tough decision to get rid of Hicks, but ultimately the right one. He would have been 34 the following season and would have been his last. He was also experiencing 'back issues' wasn't he? He only went on to make a handful of appearances in the NRL the following year.
JMonas came in as a 29 y/o test player, who went on to score 145 tries in 145 appearances over 5 years. He, along with Hicks must go down as one out our most successful SL imports.
Who was it that said better to get rid of a player a year early than a year too late? The 5 years service we got from Monas suggests we made the right call on that one for me personally.
Hicks goes down as one of my favourite players mind.
