Mild mannered Janitor wrote:
The bits in bold.
Can you prove any of those?
No, didn't think so.
Nope, niether can you disprove it.
However there are quite a few pointers.
Supposedly a bad influence off field, one that Radford wants stamping out.
On field performances a bit hit and miss, certainly this season he's been off the boil to the standard we should be expecting of him, an England international. I think he's a decent LF as I've stated many times, on his day a great tackler and can break the line, decent ball handler & can kick goals if need be. However as many have said whilst he's not the worst in the squad he should be doing better more consistantly.
The signings, again, as everyone said, loaded in the back row, VERY loaded! Signing a player like CT whom is a 6 though can play centre means that for Abdul to get ANY game time means either Pryce is left out of the 17 every week and JA is the starting 6 (v.unlikely) or we make room in the back row. With Minicello, Ellis, Manu, Pritchard as four big names, where were we going to squeeze them in as well as Abdul? unless you are already planning to lose a 'big name' backrower it doesn't add up to be able to have JA AND our starting backrow plus 2 props, plus either 2 backrowers or one backrower and Washbrook on the bench. To suggest JA is loaned out would be disgraceful in the extreme.
Finally, knowing full well his contract would be up at the end of next season and not getting any fee at all plus as has been seen players wanting to move on and try their hand elsewhere (to gain success), it makes total sense to build a squad (which we have done) knowing that we had every intention of gaining the maximum from that player and releasing him.
If you can't see the logic in that, that's up to you. To me it's been pretty obvious tbh.
