Quote: Cbr1000rr "But that's the conditions this season's going to finish in!!!!
No offense mate but you seriously need to take off those cherry and white specs'"
It is not being a happy clappy to hope that we can out together a run of results to rescue the season, it is called being a fan. Having said that despite the quality in the team we just do not look like contenders because we are so inconsistent. Bizarrely having a great crop of youngsters is problematic. They become a long term project that negates our ability to bring in seasoned players over the short term whilst necessitating keeping hold of mentors who should have been out out to grass. Sadly the usual outcome will be that we eventually let young players go to bring in stop gap players and they will go on to be successful elsewhere.
I am not advocating keeping hold of all of our youngsters. I think that seeing Sammy Kibula for Warrington will have ended that argument but I am horrified by how often we let players go but do not replace them with better players. Even now we are signing Singleton who is a solid player but is also more of what we already have got without being able to move anyone on.
I know that the Burgess move has not worked out but he is a marquee signing. For his nominal cost on the salary cap we could have got a decent player. Sadly he will be with us until he is fit or until his contract finishes. Even so other teams manage to find quality players and fit them in under the cap but it is usually done at the expense of sentimentality allowing for the dead wood to be trimmed.