Quote Mrs Barista="Mrs Barista"You're presenting an upbeat view of Rovers player Griffin. I'm presenting previously documented opinions of yours which show your views to be flawed/Rovers-biased. Your follow-up on Clinton provides a bit more insight on this. 3 years ago, such were his performances, you said you'd take him over any prop in the world (Rovers were being linked with him, but I'm sure this was entirely coincidental). He rocks up at Rovers and spectacularly fails to deliver over a 3 year period, steals a living, if you will. You then say it's because he doesn't have any passion for the game itself. How could he have been at the top of your list of world props to bring in if he wasn't really bothered about the game? Perhaps some of his underdelivery was that he was underwhelmed with the Rovers set-up, or perhaps he shares the same views on your chairman as @mase21, Willie Mason, since his loss of performance coincided entirely with his tenure at Rovers. Neither of us know, but based on the correlations before us, to attribute his lack of interest in RL per se could be construed as Rovers-biased.
There are, of course, further examples.
You predicted Tom Briscoe's lack of top class outside back attributes meant that by 2012 he'd be probably be a back-rower. The reality is that he (unlike Offiah-esque Fox) is still in and around the international squad and some NRL clubs are likely to be in for him next year. Not, I'd imagine, as a back-rower
You said that Tommy Lee's has a far more complete skill set than Danny Houghton. The reality is that Houghton is England Knights captain, at hooker, and player's player of the year at FC for the second year running.
The point is, this is not the nodding dogs forum where you can pick any aspect of what Rovers are doing and fabricate an apologetic post-rationalisation without challenge. You launch a rather laboured justification of the under-30s only approach, which could be summarised as lower age = fewer injuries. The missing challenges to this are:
Rovers have a squad of under 30s because they can't/don't want to pay the market rate for, or can't attract, big names.
Your long term absentees this year included sub 30 year olds such as Welham, Cox, Green, Lovegrove.
The top teams have a very significant proportion of over 30s
The best of your young players may choose to use Rovers as simply a stepping stone to Wigan, Leeds..
Anyway, Griffin. Heard good things about him. Sounds like a 2013 breakthrough player.'"
It's generally impossible to identify to true context of a quote/statement without reading the build up to that quote and even then, like any type of text, it's meaning can be open for interpretation in the context of how it's meant.
You have a reoccurring tendency to regurgitate my previous postings totally out of context of their original meaning - and all most out of the context of where a current thread is going so a lot of threads end a discussion of the same things, over and over and over again, and the original thread is derailed.
Building a massive database of bookmarks with the aim of referring to them years later is simply not normal or adult behaviour which I'd suggest you probably already know, but refuse to face up to, and regardless of how big your house is, how much money you earn, I'd suggest it's in your best interests to seek help from a councillor to address these issues because referring to ancient quotes over and over again, year on year, will not justify your pathetic need for your database of quotes.
The bottom line is this; I'll post what I what, when I want, so I'd suggest it's time your leech like behaviour is curbed.
