Quote ="bobsmyuncle"Amen to Steve Menzies at the Bulls. What an enthusiastic and talented player he has been for us over two seasons. He gave us his all despite being in a poorish team, and showed a class that would have not been out of place in our very best sides in the recent past.
36-37 y.o. - hmmm, could certainly have done another year for us, but as has been said it depends on how his quota spot and salary is to be used.
IMO we do need to mark his last match at Gratten in some special way, tho I've no idea how to do this. We have a poor record in general in saying goodbye to valued players.'"
I quite agree with the first two paragraphs; Menzies has been superb and player of the year for me, though, given his age, we do need to see all the ins and outs before criticising his departure too much.
Not sure about the last bit though. Over the SL period in general, I think we've done pretty well to players when they leave. To be fair, much of it was down to Sky as well as the club and also, when we went into the play-offs it was later in the season and we actually [iknew[/i who was leaving at the last home game, whereas, both last year and this, we don't actually know [iexactly[/i who is and who isn't leaving yet. Even Beaver seems to have left the door ajar, and if a new quota player doesn't materialise then he may well stay.
The one thing above all about Odsal fans for me though is that we don't, generally speaking descend into the 'FC reject' mentality when ex-players return and usually they get a decent reception from the faithful. There have been exceptions to that, Paul 'Bad Back' Newlove, for instance, but given the way he left I guess that was understandable.
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