When it was first announced that McNamara had been given the England job but would would carry on with the Bulls at the same time, I said on this website that this would not work. You cannot serve two masters since McNamara's thoughts and plannings would have to be divided between England and the Bulls. As a result, I said that the Bulls would decline. My posting at that time was generally rubbished by a few people on here.

The Bulls board should either have refused to release McNamara until the end of the season or they should have released him straight away and appointed one of his staff as a tempory replacement.

Get it locked BP the Crusaders match is old news. Dead and buried now we've got a young team out there looking to gun down one of the top teams in the SL tomorrow. I'd rather concentrate on that rather than raking up the past.

Cool. Just a shame his "edited" post was not given the honour of being done big and bold in bright colours with a warning on it too. If it had it been perhaps that would have been fairer.

Without wishing to be drawn into anything, and only on the basis that this thread seems to have run its course so can't be derailed, I'll just say that there is a big difference between pointing out (correctly if too personally) the nastiness in a specific post, as I did, and the making of a purely gratuitous and provocative disparaging remark, as you did. I took exception to what you had said and the manner you said it. You were just taking a cheap random shot and, bluntly, being personally offensive for no reason and with no provocation. I wasn't. I would (deep breath) wish to apologise for calling you "a nasty piece of work", which went too far.

I am not going to take issue with or even comment on the modding, as rightly the mods do their jobs as they see them, but the reason I have decided to respond to that is because I have to state publicly that you simply can't equate my post with your post, which is what you're trying to do.

I should think so too. Apology accepted.

Lets quit while we're ahead . . . . . .and I have to start handing tissues out . . . . .

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