denis preston
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That's not my recollections of him. Great in the first two years but ate a lot of our cap and slowed down our attack, couldn't pass & set up supports ( didn't Nightingale score 5 tries on his side one year and then moved to the other and scored 16 ? ) great defensively but you have to consider he was our highest paid player before Hunt came on board so you have to hard mark him. Sure gave everyone a opportunity to see him bust a gut by going down faster than a ten dollar hooker ! I do agree though that he could be considered another victim of Mcnumnuts ineptitude.Someone that absolutely busted a gut for us was Duges. He’s the only player of ours in memory that was in tears after a loss.
If he was under supercoach Griffin instead of numbnuts we would have got the best out of him instead of the meh.
That's why i love the way we are going and refusing to pay overs for anyone now. These 800k contracts really have bitten clubs in the arse ( Norman anyone ? ) and to think that Dugan went from us to another 800k contract to join Moylen & Johnstone on similar, it is a wonder the Sharks did so well at the time ( well better than us ! )