Quote: Bet Lynch "I am not vilifying them at all I am responding to the fact making claims several weeks ago claiming top 4 finish will raise fans expectations, simple really.'"
I suppose it depends on the fan. Personally I'd expect my fellow fans to be able to make their own judgments rather than just go with whatever they hear others saying. Then again I suppose there are people who are convinced pyramid schemes will make them rich, too.
Quote: Bet Lynch "McRae did an article in the media re Manu and stated the club wanted a decision, a matter of weeks later re Turner & Whiting (I believe) he claimed the club understood that the players needed time to make a decision, that is a contradiction.'"
We went through this at the time, no it's not. It was different players who will have been made different levels of offer and therefore had different levels of influence on the salary cap. And even then, it's still not a contradiction at all to understand why players want to take their time but then say that that time is not available. The club could afford to wait a bit longer for Whiting and Turner to decide, they couldn't afford to hang around not knowing whether or not they had a chunk of cap the size of Manu to play with. It would perhaps be a contradiction if the situations were the same, but they really weren't.