It's hard to be that great prop in the rovers squad, Mason in his first game was seen running from deep, making dummy runs and offloads, great, we all thought. Didn't do it again, like he'd been told not to.

Joel Clinton, when he runs from deep he doesn't give an inch and often comes off worse, there's a great vid on that video sharing website of him 'kocking himself out', he got injured last week doing same thing, bad to see the injury but good to see the effort. Fed up of our forwards standing still waiting for the pass, Vella takes 8 yards to pick up any pace, with him standing still the defence are on him before he has got going, could be so much better.

No, you said "Dowes with more tackle busts", you didnt mention twice or half and neither did Larry until he added Joel to the mix.

But Larry had already read my stats link, which showed a 9:4 ratio in Dowes favour and commented that the contracts reflected the differential.

Fitzy doesn't deserve to be in that group, he was a good grafter and got better the longer his spell here went on. Cetainly a better hooker than we have now!

Fair enough. Still like the rather plausible hot tub Machiavellian scheming scenario though.

Maybe he's planning on extracting a huge fee out of FC for Chase to fund his Aussie revolution down Wheldon Road in 2012?

A plot can never be too thick

Brilliant - love it!

still think he should be backup not first 17

Decent squad player, good workrate, unspectacular but solid enough. I would guess he's not going to be a massive earner so why not?

Some absolute legends there



Casey Mayberry only managed a couple of games for us didnt he? IIRC we signed him and Marvin Golden and Phil Hasty in the same pre season?

colin brown and tim lumb should be in the list of boo boys.

No Adrian "Rain Man" Rainey? or Dave Luckwell?