Re: Bulls rumour thread for 2012 season. : Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:38 pm
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Adeybull wrote: ...must admit that what DOES make me angry is reading things like this. Doubtless money was the issue at the time, but it is depressing reading nevertheless? Very depressing. Surely he can't have been asking that much surely? paulwalker71 wrote: I agree Adey It would interesting to know just how much extra money it would have taken to retain Wardle. We're under the cap, and have spent cap money on players that are basically not up to the job, so I feel sure we could have found extra. Hindsight is wonderful, of course, but it seems obvious to me that Wardle would have played most games this season and would be the centre around which we'd now be building our backline. Instead we've had Whitehead (a second rower) and Ah Van (a winger) and Platt (a converted full back)..... When you look at our centres and see Wardle at Hudders it just strikes me as utterly bizarre that we let him go, it's not like we had an embarrassment of riches in the backs is it? |
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Adeybull wrote: ...must admit that what DOES make me angry is reading things like this. Doubtless money was the issue at the time, but it is depressing reading nevertheless? Very depressing. Surely he can't have been asking that much surely? paulwalker71 wrote: I agree Adey It would interesting to know just how much extra money it would have taken to retain Wardle. We're under the cap, and have spent cap money on players that are basically not up to the job, so I feel sure we could have found extra. Hindsight is wonderful, of course, but it seems obvious to me that Wardle would have played most games this season and would be the centre around which we'd now be building our backline. Instead we've had Whitehead (a second rower) and Ah Van (a winger) and Platt (a converted full back)..... When you look at our centres and see Wardle at Hudders it just strikes me as utterly bizarre that we let him go, it's not like we had an embarrassment of riches in the backs is it? |
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