Quote: GiantJake1988 "Ive said it before and fans will take offence but players like Bruno, Rankin, Gaskell, Darnell & Murphy are all solid players and are not really good enough in their positions to be in a top 8 team...which other top 8 starting 17 would any of them get into?. Same could be said for Roberts but we all know he can play better. Feel bad including Murphy in that but we do need better if we are to progress.
Teams can literally go full length of the field in a set against us from their own sticks to make us drop out whereas we make around 30m in a set.
We do need to say goodbye to Hinchliffe now as well - not because hes a poor player but because we can strengthen further by releasing him.
I dont think any coach can sort this teams discipline out....that must have been a new record for penalties conceded by a team last night. We literally gave one away every 2/3 minutes.'"
I agree with most of that. Woolford knows it too though, if we had won last night we could probably have got away with sneaking into the top 8 beating Wakey in the last game, but we are far from the 8th best team in the competition and need a massive clearout of dead wood to have any hope of becoming competitive again. What's been good in recent weeks is that the players have really played with commitment and pride and that's let us beat a few teams who are much better than us on paper.
Players like Gaskell are killing us, eating up the cap and giving virtually nothing for that money, so many bad signings in the past are still bogging the club down, but there is a little light at the end of the tunnel in the off season this year, getting there is no foregone conclusion though as Toronto and Toulouse will be so hungry in the middle 8's.