I'm a League man - I want the best for the game. The Warriors are NZ's shop-front window and they have done a miserable job at representing this country since its inception. History is on my side and I have not seen anything that tells me that on-field results are going to change any time soon!
Recruiting the wrong players, paying too much for them is part n parcel of Warrior history. To their credit, they've made many good recruitments as well, Maloney and Friend in recent times, but there's no denying that the negative side of the recruitment ledger is far greater than it should be.
My point here is to get people to question decisions, to get people to actually think about a lot of the choices this team makes because the history of this team requires that we do so.
But instead, what I'm seeing here on this board alone, is a lot of people either dodging or oblivious to the on-going issues that consistently hamper this club from reaching its true potential. Now the latter I can understand because not everyone had 30+ years of League, business, people experience behind their belt but the former - dodging issues - that is criminal, especially, again, for a club that has the poor history that it has.
At the moment I am not seeing anything from you other than attempts to dodge the hard questions. The more you do this the more I know that this team is going nowhere. Once again, one of the great things about League is that it mirrors life all too well and in this instance, it is like politics - I am here questioning the politicians but all I'm getting is "pr" speak in return.
ah I see I over thought it and miss judged you.
I thought with a nick name like Bengal that you were a Tigers fan with a negative agenda.
You seem passionate about your arguments. Still on the signing front , we're talking about Hoffman....if a lack of consistency is your main criticism with the Warriors ' import type' then that can't fairly be leveled at Hoffman.
The main reason I'm pleased with this signing is he fixes two very important roles in the team.
We have no effective left edge running backrow , Matulino has been doing a better job than Mannering , but neither player can get any where near what Hoffman does for Melbourne in that Role.
Hoffman takes hit up two , for the last ten years , Manu Vatuvei has owned that hit up , of late Laumape and Hurrell are being used.
This team gains a lot by having Hoffman to do the specialist forward work ( hit up two is the hardest in the game ) that reduces the load on our outside backs by a third.
You're looking at a player that will free up the harder part of several outside backs game , and keep Mannering out of the left edge attack.
As for how much that costs....there are pages of third party agreement discussions , at the end of the day the Warriors can afford to pay large overs of unregistered money.
They would be foolish not to use that option.....the past is the past....it's new buying model and we're talking new players that have NRL credibility .....more importantly they 'fix' some of the holes in our current style of play.
