centralparkforever wrote:
....and the (not always warranted) sterotype of the clueless, pig****-thick knuckle-dragging pie-eater is reinforced again... I guess it's just a phrase you're going through?
Anyone with half a brain would have kept Pryce, Eastmond and Wheeler instead of him 2 years ago (and that fact isn't diminished at all by what has happened to the careers of the 4 of them since). Matty is a decent player, nothing more, nothing less. In the windswept barren wastes of the current British RL talent pool though decent is about as good as it gets, and that makes him a very good signing for you - certainly there's no way you could have gotten anyone any better without spending around 10 times as much cash.
I doubt Saints were seriously interested in bringing him back though as Gaskell has the potential to be a much better player in a year or two (and couldn't play in the same team as Matty for me), Lomax has to play somewhere, Wheeler still has an outside chance of fulfilling his promise and the square peg of Hohaia needs hammering into the round holes of our team somewhere. We frankly just don't have room for him in our current lineup. And the fact that our squad is being loaded up for next year to just smash opposition up the middle without ever bothering with any of that tedious outside passing and backplay stuff makes him even more redundant. Even if we did want him back and put a bid in, your lot needs him a darn sight more than we do and so were always going to outbid us.
Anyway, I reckon he'll look very good and do a decent job in a mostly dominating team, so well done and all that.
