I know but they haven't been replaced!

Roosters still struggling for crowds and now financially.
Wests Tigers was a merger and have since won the Grand Final.

If you spent all of that money on one player and he gets injured, what then? Its easy to say we have had rubbish from the lower divisions, which we have, but with the limited finances available Mac has to create a 25 + man squad. If only we could unearth a Lunt or similar from the championship it would be great.

If he had readily available funds do you not think he would have gone and brought a player or 2 in with the funds made available from Robinson leaving for example. Its clear we are not spending like we have in the past- Hill, Paul, Mclinden etc would have all been on 100K plus you would expect, who have we brought in since their departure who will be taking that 300K? Its simple maths

Injuries happen. If a quality player gets injured then it is a blow, but when fit and able to play they will make a difference. To me if you have limited funds it is better to have a sprinkling of class rather than lots squad fillers who never play at all, or play 20 minutes in a season (which has happened!). We might as well just go with a smaller squad and rely on loans if/when they are needed.

Of course McDermott would probably like to be able to spend more on the squad now. But that wasn't my point. My point was that when he did have money to spend the best finish he achieved was 9th.

with principally a team he inherited from a coach that was removed from his post due to underperformance.

Subsequently with less funds and the need to offload players we have deteriorated in terms of position -which I think even you would expect to happen

Lets think all of this through logically because I think possibly, maybe wrongly you dont understand where Im coming from- Look at the Warrington squad with a wealth backer who spends the full salary cap-compare that team man against man, position against position -what do you see?

Do you not think McDermott would not love to have players of that ability at his disposal? Do you see where Im coming from? Equally as an employee he cant come out and say the chairman is an XX as he will become unemployed very quickly.

Its difficult times

....disagree.
DH is a saint and without him, there would be no club to get depressed about, but he needs to release funds for promoting the games. Development will count for nothing if we go under..we need bums on seats and the time for softly softly is over. If we do go to the wall, I'd rather we went their trying rather than sheepishly shuffling along.

...I don't have a cure, but I tell you what, I have a passion and that seems to be severly lacking at the club at the moment. If PB feels the need to go public with his concerns I would suggest his already crowded CV might be getting a bit more crowded by the end of the season......which beggars the question why he took the job in the first place. It was never going to be easy......but to say what he has done 12 months into his tenure....that smacks of excuses being got in early!