Quote ="sally cinnamon"I don't think he was that bothered about being first choice stand off given that he knew Briers was coming back and he spent the off season loafing about and getting out of shape.
Surely if you had ambitions to compete with Lee Briers for a position you would make a better effort than that? The only thing he had over Briers was that he was faster and better at beating players with his footwork, he wasn't a great kicking or organising player, so against weak teams when he had the ball in his hand in the middle of the field he was a try scoring threat. But Appo was never going to be a top line SL stand off, so if that was what he wanted he shouldn't have signed a new deal with us, he could have gone elsewhere to a team that wanted a stand off.
Instead he signed a big contract with us and then just couldn't be bothered any more.
I wonder what would have been said if Appo had been preferred to a fit Briers and then Briers had felt like he was being marginalised, sat on the bench behind a fat ineffective Appo.'"
the irony to that being, briers came back in 04 overweight as well.
