Hetherington is entitled to make the odd mistake and its not as though he's spent the last 6 years regretting the absence of a big forward to help them win Super League.
A four year deal was a big gamble and Hetherington has a lot of good players to fit under his salary cap. We were in a position where we had to take more of a gamble to progress and this one paid off. But there would have been a lot of people lining up to criticise Paul Cullen and Simon Moran for spending big money on a player who had taken a lot of battering through his career, if he had suffered injury problems or not been the same player.
Morley, like Fielden, Farrell and Scully, started young and played an intense game that meant he got a lot of punishment. That punishment mounts up and those three players were not the same in the final years of their careers, in Fielden's case because he lost form, in Farrell and Scully they couldn't get consistently on the field. Morley was the exception.
I wanted us to take the gamble on Morley but I'm not sure I'd have wanted us to take it if we were in Leeds position.
