Oh and Pou your hypocrisy on player payments is ridiculously mind blowing.
You have been bunging on about us tying up to much of our salary cap in one player and that teams with that much tied up in one player ala the Cowboys and Thurston can never have a balanced team good enough to win a premiership. Bla bla bla bla bla...
And now we sign Foran for the same coin and you don't seem to have a problem with it at all and actually seemed pleased with the situation.
Well what has changed Pou? We had the worlds best player in our team, but you always whinged and whinged about our inability to balance our squad because of him.
Now we have a very capable, but hardly the worlds best player, and you seem at the least, content. :? No dramatics???
Hayne was never the problem, but you were right on one score about the Cowboys and us being in the same predicament, but for the wrong reason.
The players around them are or were hardly of consistent stellar quality. Not due to poor salary control or lack of funds being available to entice players to stay or come to either team. As we all know we have paid way too much to many of our players over the years with very little in return.
And the Cows have hardly had a dud roster over most of the time that Thurston has been there. So what is the connection?
Well a combination of bad coaches, ordinary retention and recruitment, but most of all the players that were or are playing in their respective NRL teams having a bad attitude. Just because you have the best two players in the world doesn't mean you can go into cruise mode and play soft.
I just shake my head whenever I hear our players say things like, "now that Hayne is gone we have to step up more", or "we need to take on more responsibility" and so on. Say what? So now they are saying they will actually play at their best mentally and physically??? Cos what, Hayne was what, stifling them somehow because of HIS attitude???
Sure people will say, but it is Jarryd's attitude and players just didn't respond to him well. What a load of crap. As a few former players and current players have stated in the press the last couple of weeks, you don't have to get along with everyone in your team, and as Sterlo said, there were some he almost hated, but when playing you just got on with it and had pride and behaved professionally.
Like I said many times before, it was never Jarryd's or Thurston's, fault, that their teams faltered or still falter badly. Their records speak for themselves. However some of the boneheads that they played with or are still playing with, well that's a different story. Their attitude was/is the problem for most of them.
The salary cap does not prevent teams from having marquee players and winning premierships, but attitude does.
So Foran will not hinder our premiership hope due to Salary, but the rest of the squads attitude will.
But back to you Pou. Why such blatant hypocrisy? We had the best player, I believe, the world has ever seen, It is a pity that you never let yourself enjoy that gift to its fullest and the joy he brought to most of us. Your petty and often stubborn silly logic and reasoning has once again shown you up as a unashamed hypocrite.
