The posters name is 'IFL'

I know what your saying but we wouldn't have signed bailey if we had wild,Robinson is a hard one cause would we have signed tommy or trent if he was still here? and aspinwall would be playing the other wing with ainscough or fb

The main reason robinson left was nothing to do with his ability!

I would have kept brown though as i think he is good.

However you cant just keep people for being from the juniors, they need to be good enough and the only junior we have gotten rid of who has come back to haunt us is long. And see robinson for the reason he left!

Dont rate brown personallybut agree with long and i think briscoe was another player we should have kept but radders was here and he wanted full time rugby

I agree with what you say above but the talent missed and never replaced was Pongia, Smith and O'Connor. The loss of these three plus Farrell and Cassidy was the start of our demise. Not only were they good pack players they were leaders something we badly miss today.

Correct, the heart of our team left within one season. We have never recovered.