Casting a brutal eye over the team, the overseas party of Jeffries, Tadulala, Solomona, Tupou and it pains me to say Nero need to be shown the door if they are not able to produce the goods in 2009. For the good of club, country and empire!!!

Agreed, quite pleased to see the number of players with Homegrown next to them.

we've got loads of quota and overseas spaces for 2009 and 2010 then and by 2011 most of them will be retired, so plenty of room to bring in more overseas players without having to push anyone out. Why are so many overseas trained but not quota, surely they aren't all kolpak? Surely Jeffries, Nero and Menzies join Morrison as quota leaving only one quota space - which we thought we were filling when having to get rid of Evans, otherwise we'd have had loads of space for Evans still.

Any significance in Solomona being given shirt 26? Is he out of favour, or superstitious about the number 26?

The number he wore when he first signed for us.

Could it be.........

a. his weight in stones?
b. the number of penalties he concedes per game?
c. the exact amount of gametime (in minutes) he manages "between injuries"?
d. the number of pizzas he had delivered to his house for personal consumption last Friday night?
e. His fastest recorded time (in seconds) for the 100 metre sprint?
f. The number of letter X's that precede the letter L on the size of his shirt?

The mind boggles......

As usual Eddie hits close to the mark

You need to be careful AP. With comments like that you'll become part of his collection. . . .

. . . . .

"You're my wife now . . . . ." and all that

Nah, not really. AP is just one of the many who know I usually get it spot on. You are another one of them.

. . . . I'm sure that could be construed as libelous . . .

Had it been false then maybe so.

You wish

##that would be the taduala who was one of few players to perfrom consistently last year? and wouldnt say jeffries was a total disaster last year either. agree about other 3 unless they raise their games to the level we know they are capable of this coming season.

First one to go for me would be Deacon, this bloke would`nt get a jockstrap for my team,never mind a first team shirt.
we should have had a replacement for the useless little oik two years ago.
Third rate has been.

U KNow nowt abotu Rugby u clown.











DEAcs is da best.

well everyone has a right to have a say, after all if you pay your money to watch the team then anyone in the team will get critisised.
As for not knowing anything about rugby, i would say you yourself would be better off looking at knitting patterns & pictures of kittens.
youve probably been watching for a short time & only like him because the other girls you stand with think "he`s fit"


Anyway, for what ever reason you do like him, save it for beddy time eh,
silly girl.

original post updated with Johnson leaving and Duane Straugheir's squad number

You are actually an idiot my friend. How can [iyou[/i criticise something if you can't even spell the word correctly?

Theres something about Deacon that reminds me of Boy George, but I just cant quite put my finger on it.

He should be locked up?

updated with latest injuries

updated squad list with Morrisons injury

Get Halley signed up for a good few years.