rupert bear wrote:You don't need to be 'famous' to be any good though do you. The history of sport is littered with big name signings who haven't preformed. I'd rather have lesser known players who want to make a name for themselves or be willing to shed blood for the cause than sign a 'big i am'.
The league will be hard but i don't think that we are the third worst team in CC1, but for a couple of results going the wrong way at the end of the season we could have easily finished in second place.
No you don't have to have to be famous to be good, but it helps as you have a track record which can be judged.
Yes and there is no guarantee that the big name signings will perform, but then here is no guarantee that promising young lads will either.
Regarding the thing about 'but for a couple of results going ether way we could have finished second', we knew what our shortcomings were, it was clear last year what the problems were but nothing was done mid season.
Even Tony Miller admits that we were just a little short in certain departments. These were, the forwards were lacking and the halfbacks were lacking in TOTAL by two quality players.
Now things went backwards from there as we lost class players, so where we finished last year is no guide to this year..
I do think however Miller has done a good job strengthening the forwards. But remember we lost Adam Scott, Matt Carbutt and Chris Green (all class).
In the backs we were decimated by the loss of Potts, Nevison, Spurr and Spavin.
And that has not been addressed properly so far.
So I am not sure where the optimism is coming from, since we after all could only manage 5th in what was in my opinion a weaker league when we had a stronger side than what we will now face which is a stronger league with up to press a weaker side.
