Why I'm excited by 2004

[bartman]

Yeah, I take back what I said about it taking more than a coach to bugger up halves... I cannot fathom why Smith chose to start 2004 with Dykes at halfback (?) and Witt shifted between half, five-eighth and bench in premier league. #-o

Look at Witty now - it's understandibly taken him that long to get his confidence back to what it was at the end of last season. Smith's Wagon-Dykes experiment may have cost the team valuable points and performances.

But yeah, I'm still looking forward to next year with all those signings... :lol:

 

[Parraren]

In fairnes if someone told me we'd be without Lyon, Vaealiki, Cayless & Cannings for 90% of the season then I would have expected us to be battling for a top 8 spot which we are at the moment.

 

[oldmancraigy]

Agreed with Parraren

AND

The players we have signed for 2005 are a class above those we signed for 2004!!

Grothe has been playing great (and is a steal) but Tahu is already an Australian rep!

Pearson and Cannings haven't played all that much this year - but Stringer and Robinson probably offer the same quality

Thorman was an unknown who didn't pan out - we know what we'll get from the Pig

Muckert/ Muspratt are fringe first graders, Morrison was their master and commander at Nth Qld and will be here!


Misty, it must be fun being a pessimist all the time.... I guess nothing will ever be good enough until we win the grand final with a record score and our entire squad gets picked as the Aussie squad - and that would all be in spite of Smith's horrible coaching wouldn't it?