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If players on £100k+ a year are "scratchy" then we need to bin them.

What a load of rubbish. doesnt matter how much there on they still wont be match fit and take few weeks to hit top form

only a load of rubbish to people who accept mediocrity

So we just bin player coming back from big injuries as they look a bit rusty when they have been out for a while, how do we bin them?

It's be expected and anyone who has played sport knows that after a big injury you are a bit rusty for at least your first game back.

I love Standee.

don't covet what you can't afford sir!

Swear filter?

the thought had crossed my mind too

I hope Holdsworth and Ellis prove Gentle to have been cautious, rather than right.

It depends what you mean by 'workaday', 'inflated' and 'grow', but I think there's a tendency in SL to compare 'average Aussies' with 'promising young Bristish talent with lots of potential', holding overseas players to different, higher standards. If they're on higher wages, fair enough to an extent, but I want players picked on what they do rather than where they're from. The reverse and equally unfair spin would be players 'who've come through the best system in the World and competed in the best club competition' against 'raw, inexperienced kids'. Our young players and sometimes those not so young get away with a 'done nowt wrong', where an import would get a 'done nowt'.
While SL is skint it is probably moot, but a protectionist, Bristish is best, even when it clearly isn't, attitude... well it is a recipe for mediocrity. [iOur[/i mediocrity at least, and I can live with that, I just can't be bothered to lie to myself about it.
Markets need regulation, but there is a balance. We do need to give young players more chances, but we also need them to be challenged to grow.

You don't half talk crap sometimes.

Beat me to it.

Slightly OT, but interesting that GSSport Management uploaded a highlights video of Cory Paterson a week ago. Shop window, anyone?

Not playing this weekend

Edited for accuracy.

he has a clause that says he's a free agent if sandycock leaves