If we'd have signed a more established player it'd have been a 'kick in the teeth' for Welham, I'm sure. We go for youth and potential (Hodgson, Cook and Ratu) and it demonstrates a lack of ambition rather than perhaps an investment.
Stan - choose your own angle for your trolling and run with it. You've been doing it for a while now, you should have more confidence in your ability.
On de-registering Chev, do we really think we are, or would want to be in the current economic climate, bumping our heads against the salary cap ceiling? I don't know, but I suspect that all but 3 or 4 teams are limited more by
money than the cap - O/T This is the massive hole in all of Smokey's anti-cap arguments. Unless there is an insurance payment (resulting from a poor prognosis, so not something to hope for), a de-registered Walker would still be fully paid. If we are at the cap it makes sense, otherwise it doesn't.
Welcome to Michael Ratu - another promising young British squad member.