Quote: vastman "A lot of fans are forgetting that we made three big signing for this season, last season, as we did last year.
All retired players have been replaced, it's a fact some just won't accept.
Bowden/Butler for Arona
Atoni for Fifita
Taufua for Bill
Smith for Miller
People keep saying that we are weaker and older but neither is true, Bowden, Butler and Atoni and smith are all younger than the players they replace. As for Eseh, well its just the start, but playing for Fev and winning the YPOY award, he's clearly ready for a fair few starts this season.
However the most staggering thing is that by a piece of great fortune we have somehow managed to replace the irreplaceable in Murphy for Johnstone. How good is that but you would never know it reading the doom mongers on here - tragic really that you can’t see a massive piece of good fortune staring you in the face!
Yet the same suspects on here persist with the same glass half empty propaganda. We just seem to revel in negativity.'"
But yet you are the same every off season aren't you?! You are never off here extolling the virtues of new players who haven't even taken to the field yet!! Yet when we are a few games in you are the first to dive in there and slag off the coaches and players. You need to re-read some of your posts from last season, even though it will take you months, before you start having a go at people on here. You said Tom Johnstone getting injured was a disaster for the team, it wasn't. Butler did nothing and was signed in May, he has loads to prove. Bowden did ok. I HOPE Atoni, Proctor etc prove to be good signings, but none of us know how they will do, clearly, but it doesn't stop all the clairvoyants on here knowing they will be good signings! You can't seem to post without having a go at fellow posters, you are like a broken record mate, and when we get to April/May and things MIGHT not be going so well, let's see what you put on here then......
