Quote: Mrs Barista "You've been pretty sarcastic about Lyne's performances, sneering that you must have missed his brilliant efforts. As a 17-year-old academy international, surely any self-declared FC fan would be backing him to the hilt and be proud of what he's achieved so far? You've said to those referencing Houghton being on the brink of international selection that there are at least 7 better hookers than him in the competition. "Slating" may have overstated it, but you clearly don't rate him as a better than average SL hooker.
What I'm getting at with the CC thing is this. There are 2 competitions. You dismiss us getting to the final of one out of hand as an irrelevance, yet losing to Rovers, also a one-off game, is consuming you. You're being entirely inconsistent.'"
As you say, slating them was overstating it. Fact is we have seen nothing from Lynn yet in the first team and there are 6 or 7 better hookers than Houghton around based on last season, I did also say he'd improved dramatically. Especially after the likes of Lee flopping so badly I tend to avoid listening to the hype and praising players for doing not much and hope quietly that they'll produce the goods at which time I'm happy to big them up.
I didn't dismiss getting to the CC final but as a barometer of a manager's achievements I don't think one appearance in the final after a fairly easy run to the final counts for much. As I've already said, the result in the final game of last season is so important because it meant that for three seasons in a row Morgan had outperformed Agar in the objective sense, albeit not from your subjective point of view.
