Or I suppose, it won't hurt as much losing it this year, than it has before?

I guess what we are establishing, is that this year's comp is going to be a devalued one - Will be nice to win, but will have the kudos of winning the Locker Cup....

I think once you start making excuses for a player like this it's a sign that they aren't really a top class player. Look at how Simon Grix had a career disrupted by injury, coming back in to the team in different positions with different combinations of players around him and he always looked good. If McMeekan is only able to be a good player if he plays on the right edge with Roberts and Webster then no point signing him unless we're going to play him there and sign those players too. I don't want him and then have to say yes he's been disappointing but he's moved to a whole new team, had to learn whole new system, excuse, excuse etc...

In Currie's case, its going to be the injury rather than having turnover in players around him. In his first few seasons he had a halfback carousel of Myler, O'Brien, Wheeler, Sandow and Patton. and he switched between second row and centre, the only difference in stability between then and the last couple of years was he had Atkins there most weeks rather than having the change of Goodwin/King. Are we really saying that the reason Currie was so good was because of the stability he had with Ryan Atkins? The big difference between before and after was he had two serious injuries. If he hadn't had those injuries, we wouldn't be having this conversation, it would have been more like "are the rumours true that he is signing for an NRL team in 2021?"

That is true also. But given the option of winning it or not I'd bite your hand off.

I would’ve expected Currie to have been in the NRL some time ago if he hadn’t suffered the injuries.

Very likely as Wayne Bennett was very keen to get him into the national team.