Just when I thought Saddened had come on to apologise for his ‘impartial’ comments about the Austin tackle. Quote : Tompkins clearly tackled and Austin attacks the head - very bad should be 3-4 weeks we don’t want any of that.

Agree, he could so easily have been a hero with 2 winners medals and photos/memories of various trips around the historic cities and holiday centres of Europe. Sadly, it appears clear that he never really wanted to be here. To me, something that was evident at the time with the procrastination over his signing in the first place.

Who knows, in time he may look back in later life and see it as a missed opportunity. He has moved on and so have we. All in all, a disappointing episode. So far, quite a contrast to Austin.

Apparently we had to make 4 attempts to secure TR. If you can't nail them within 2 go's, look elsewhere.

There's a difference between King and Roberts. We were on King's back yet gave a Roberts an easy time of it.

.....I'd have more respect for the guy if he'd have come out and said mid-season 'sorry but I can't hack it, let me go home now!'....rather than sticking it out with a continuous run of lacklustre performances.

I doubt the club would have liked that. For all we know he would have been up for that, doesn’t mean we would have been.

I almost think that the club said to him just come over and if you don't like it we will let you go/review after one year. Part of my disappointment is that it seemed clear he was unsettled early on but he hadn't got the grace to at least be seen to be trying. Although there was the 'knee' injury which cannot have helped. Looking back, when his future was settled (perhaps 3/4 way through) he did get better which is understandable getting himself more involved and taking over the kicking.