Have you heard of a bloke called Adam Macdougall?
There are a lot of good players in the team, but you look at the Knights outfit and you look at any side expected to do much of anything - and it just doesn't measure up. We've got some good, honest toilers; we've got a few genuine stars; and we've got a bunch of guys who had good seasons last year and may or may not kick on.
Kurt and Mullen are our only two guys who would walk into most rival lineups, and even Mullen can only really shine from time to time. Taia and Sau have a lot of potential, but we've seen one season wonders before. Mad Dog's good and old. Lulia is bland. Vuna is accident prone. Fa'aoso and Wicks are liabilities half of the time. Simpson's not a patch on what he once was. Hilder's an honest, hard worker. De Gois is riding hype that's probably above him. He's good, but he doesn't look much like an Ennis or a Farah.
I'm always going to be out there to cheer for the team, and I hope that they get out and prove me wrong. But how many other teams so stubbornly stick to their locals and unknowns from afield policy each and every year. When you consider our last big foray into the market landed Ben Kennedy - it puts a pretty obvious picture of how our recruitment system goes. You look at any other club and they'll have picked up 3-5 well known players in the same time we've hired bargain buys like Houston, Hilder, and De Gois. And they're good for the team, but you can't get by on 'good' forever. You need some 'great'.
We're not going to be 'great' unless we luck into another Andrew Johns, or we go out and actually purchase players with some pedigree.
) as if we were going to get a player who is as good as Bird, we would be getting a halfback, plain and simple! Not a lock who can also play 5/8 as well.
