Quote: WIZEB "How many days in the sun have you had the privilege of?
We've been lucky enough to have 2 very recently.
It was was 14 years ago and 37 years respectively otherwise.
I've had the pleasure of all four.
Each one lived and enjoyed, knowing they don't come around like buses.'"
There really should be no room for sentiment in Professional sport.
In our case Radford has overseen a very strong squad produce two challenge cup wins but then failed to kick on into the Grand Final.
Injuries played a large part last season but at times the team just gave up.
Not refreshing the squad this season will prove to be Radfords biggest mistake.
There is no doubt sentiment or misplaced loyalty played a part in extending the contracts of Minichello,Manu,Paea and Washbrook when most fans saw this as a huge mistake. Washbrook apart the three overseas players are well below par of what we need from our quota players.
The addition of four reserve squad members is hardly going to make a difference where we finish this season as none of them have the quality to establish themselves as a first team regular.Thompson has played the first two games but you can see he has very little impact.
Radford i know works very hard but sometimes you need to make that change for the benefit of the club.
Someone has mentioned Cunningham at Saints and when the change was made look at the difference it made.
The club needs a shake up.New coach,new ideas, and more important the ability to attract overseas players.
I expect very few overseas players know who Lee Radford is,that is why we need a well connected Aussie coach to help us fill the Quota spots next season with the right players.
Albert Kelly coming back into the team and moving Connor back to right centre will make a difference but as we can see our forwards are being dominated and the bench we are putting out is weak with no impact.Thats not going to change until mid March when Bowden and possibly Green are back but i think that will be too late to save Radford his job