but Matt king said the same when he was struggling but he soon(ish) got over it .....it depends on the person. in Australia King just went to the beach after every training session in the NRL. If that's your life then what do you do if that's not an option...?
Ashton Sims was quoted as saying his favourite place was a beach somewhere in Queensland (I think) and his favourite clothing was his Bermuda shorts.. but he settled in very easy he even went to the surfing lake in Snowdon.

you Dont have to sit in your house all day I find that outrageous........there are so many things for a young family to do in the north of England its obscene. Just over an hour's drive from your house you can be in the lakes or the mountains of North Wales or cities like liverpool and Manchester. I cant even guess where an hours flight will get you. an hours drive in Australia you've passed a tree and a dead kangaroo....

its just the some miserable people come out with.......... like Carlos Tevez saying there were no restaurants in Manchester ...!!!

so fair play to Goodwin who is seeing as much as he can while playing really well... he'll go Back to Oz and tell others "Youve got to do it"

we were well shot of Roberts...

Agree, he could so easily have been a hero with 2 winners medals and photos/memories of various trips around the historic cities and holiday centres of Europe. Sadly, it appears clear that he never really wanted to be here. To me, something that was evident at the time with the procrastination over his signing in the first place.

Who knows, in time he may look back in later life and see it as a missed opportunity. He has moved on and so have we. All in all, a disappointing episode. So far, quite a contrast to Austin.

Apparently we had to make 4 attempts to secure TR. If you can't nail them within 2 go's, look elsewhere.

There's a difference between King and Roberts. We were on King's back yet gave a Roberts an easy time of it.

.....I'd have more respect for the guy if he'd have come out and said mid-season 'sorry but I can't hack it, let me go home now!'....rather than sticking it out with a continuous run of lacklustre performances.

I doubt the club would have liked that. For all we know he would have been up for that, doesn’t mean we would have been.

I almost think that the club said to him just come over and if you don't like it we will let you go/review after one year. Part of my disappointment is that it seemed clear he was unsettled early on but he hadn't got the grace to at least be seen to be trying. Although there was the 'knee' injury which cannot have helped. Looking back, when his future was settled (perhaps 3/4 way through) he did get better which is understandable getting himself more involved and taking over the kicking.