HamsterChops wrote:
Last year we jumped in two footed and rushed the signing of a 7, and look how that worked out. We ended up with a scrum half that hardly anyone other than Lowes rated, spent considerable time injured, and then left a year later moaning about how fans didn't understand how amazing he really was, despite no evidence to suggest it was true.
Rather than doing the same thing and rushing the signing of a 7, perhaps they've decided this time to go with what we've got for now, then wait for the right player to come along further down the line. Later in the season when someone isn't getting game time at his club and becomes unhappy, we end up with a better 7 for waiting than a Sammut or Godinet who have been considered not good enough for even Wakefield.
I think most would agree that last season wasn't very good in the halves department - in fact, that is probably in for a prize as the biggest understatement of the year.
I think, in fairness to all concerned, we were in a bit of a hole after Gareth O'Brien gave backword, so it's a bit difficult to start apportioning 'blame'; we needed a scrum half and we got a bloke with a decent background who'd been injured and.....and well, we all know what happened. We all know the qualities that Sammut would bring - both positive and negative and I for one have seen plenty of positives from Godinet, 'good enough', for Wakefield, or not.
We're in division two, we don't have a SL cap, or finances and for what it's worth I'd have either. I can understand the idea of, "hanging on", to see who might become available but, of course, it just may be that absolutely no-one of note comes available, and then chances are we'll probably have missed out on Sammut and Godinet. Either way round it's a gamble.
As for our 'radar', I guess there's nothing on it because it's either 'gone technical' or isn't monitored...
