Players love to get the adulation when they do well. So when they don't perform well they should be able to take some stick.

To some extent I agree with you but that can go to extremes where some players get scapegoated and people only notice their errors and they get no credit for the good stuff they do.

If we only focus on the bad then any player could get slated.

So to summarise, everyone should be free to criticise whoever they want without fear of someone criticising them. Hmm...

BTW Rikki cost us a try on Saturday but then so did Menzies. Both helped make one too.

Disagree. For someone at a new club following a significant operation in the close season and a curtailed preseason I think he is coming on very well.



He is steadily improving - as is most of the team

No it's got to the stage on here if you make a valid point which is then proved correct. You then get certain posters jumping on the morale high ground just because you had the cheek to criticise even though your correct.

I've noticed two specific things that I suggest all our 2009 recruits have in common:

1. A tendency to have made more mistakes than we might have hoped for;

2. A tendency to (usually) show very considerable enthusiasm in their game.

Now there are people on here far better qualified than me to comment about the details of the game; but am I the only one to think that point 1 is something of a consequence of point 2? Because if it is, then the future looks promising - the enthusiasm we need and will help win us games; and the mistakes will get ironed out as the team settles more. My tuppenceworth, anyway.

Personally, and in the context of the overall team performance, I'm happy with all of them right now. Beaver of course speaks for himself, but I have a feeling the reporter in Sadler's Rag who observed that Worrincy "...is beginning to prove himself an astute signing..." may turn out to be guilty of considerable understatement?

Incidentally, speaking of Sadler's Rag (which yes, I bought for the second time in two years this week - its OK, I can handle it, and can stop again any time, honestly...) I see that Sykes got "Player of the Week" and Beaver was only just shaded for "Try of the week" by that Evans try.

People have often said outright or implied that my opinion on a variety of matters is a load of rubbish. Being a brave litte soldier, I don't let it get to me.