It's obvious that our players demonstrated their capability to compete at the very highest level at the start of the season.

So can we please stop criticising our players? It really can't be their fault.

It's necessary to remember that Brian McDermott was the one who "slammed" his players in public not so long ago, and was quoted as saying he had no idea what to do.

At some point, the finger has to be pointed at the coach.

I'm sure Brian could change his coaching style and lighten-up if he wanted to, but there has to be some wish to improve.

Alot of teams would be happy with BM as coach.
IMO, his tactics aren't great, his signings are to much 'for the future' as fans, we like building for the future but we want NOW as well.
His signings are strange, Lister said from the start, signing Dorn to replace Hill was a huge error as Orr seems to be injury prone. To late for all of this now. Whats done is done.

The trouble with recruiting from Australia has been the collapse of sterling against the Aussie Dollar. In October 2006, around the time that Scott Hill left the Storm, £100 bought AUD 250., currently £100 will buy AUD 185. Therefore you either spend more sterling to purchase to same level of Aussie goods and services, or you spend the same amount of sterling for a potentially inferior product.

I expect they are on decent money but don't think they would collect all of their money as they are really only defenders. I rate both of them highly and think they are doing a good job as defenders but they have not been signed to score tries.

Quote ="zenon" Quote The trouble with recruiting from Australia has been the collapse of sterling against the Aussie Dollar. In October 2006, around the time that Scott Hill left the Storm, £100 bought AUD 250., currently £100 will buy AUD 185. '" '" AUD198.66 at the moment: newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/ ... efault.stm I do remember it being about 250 though, when I went there in 2004.

Quote ="zenon" Quote The trouble with recruiting from Australia has been the collapse of sterling against the Aussie Dollar. In October 2006, around the time that Scott Hill left the Storm, £100 bought AUD 250., currently £100 will buy AUD 185. '" '" AUD198.66 at the moment: newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/ ... efault.stm I do remember it being about 250 though, when I went there in 2004.

Quote ="BroncOnIon" Quote ="zenon" AUD198.66 at the moment: newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/ ... efault.stm I do remember it being about 250 though, when I went there in 2004.'" '" BBC is an inter bank rate, which you or I could not get for our holiday money. I was giving a comparison of the change in tourist rates, which as a regular visitor to Oz I am more familiar with. (This afternoon M&S are selling at 1.87 with no commission). Whatever historic rates are used, the fact is that Australian imports are 33% more expensive than they were three years ago - as I know by the cost of my NRL grand final ticket!

Quote ="BroncOnIon" Quote ="zenon" AUD198.66 at the moment: newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/ ... efault.stm I do remember it being about 250 though, when I went there in 2004.'" '" BBC is an inter bank rate, which you or I could not get for our holiday money. I was giving a comparison of the change in tourist rates, which as a regular visitor to Oz I am more familiar with. (This afternoon M&S are selling at 1.87 with no commission). Whatever historic rates are used, the fact is that Australian imports are 33% more expensive than they were three years ago - as I know by the cost of my NRL grand final ticket!