Really good point, there’s definitely something in that. I look forward to them all proving everyone wrong next season. Defo sick of all the moaning, looking forward to the middle8s and some close games against opposition of a similar standard, we’re not good enough this season for the top 8.

I do also wonder how many people, who live locally, have witnessed a number of our players out and about, not exactly behaving like professional athletes, like I have, this season.

If results had gone our way, would anyone care?

Good luck to all of them, I’ll be back next season no matter what.

It was the manner of which I saw them that wasn’t good, right after the home defeat to Wigan, eating pub lunches with chips, beers all round. It did make me think ‘is this how Sonny Bill Williams spends his Saturday afternoon’.

But who am I to judge, I’m in the same pub in Stockton Heath 100 times more often than they are!

Notable absentees - Gidley, Russell, Lineham, Ratchford, Clark. I’d make Clark captain, Ratchford vice captain.

I think that you are right there needs to be a self regulated reasonable limit and or an element of control whether that's from the club, senior pro's or restrictive times being observed such as quaffing bottles of aftershave limited to after match dinners

Ha ha. I thought we had a dietician? They probably eat well during the week.

...) should not be drinking alcohol on a regular basis.

Whilst out in the haven of Stockton Heath on the night of the Champions League final I was perched in the Mull and spotted one of our young starlets with his buddies having a good time bantering and winding each other up drinking away as young lads do, our starlet wasn't on the beer but taking a soft drink and I thought what a refreshing change. I was in there for a good couple of hours too, sadly I wasn't as well behaved



A conditioner once told me that after a heavy night a professional sports persons body is affected negatively for two to three weeks before normality kicks back in. Don't know how much truth is in that but I am not qualified to argue.