Quote ="Mad_Jack_Mcmad"I get the whole "good in the dressing room bit", I also can understand why coaches like him. He's tough, he'll give 100%, he'll put his body on the line, I bet he's an enthusiastic and willing worker in training and I'm damned sure he is good for dressing room morale. However he is 30. He still had 1 year to run on his current contract. At the end of that he will be 31. In 2011 he was probably our best player but he has been in steady decline since then. He has lost a yard of acceleration. He also has a tendency to make bad decisions. He was always a player who played with his body rather than his mind. He also has a tendency to get hit hard and late by opposition forwards. He could be only one or two hits like that away from spending the rest of his life sitting in a darkened room, overdosing on painkillers.
What I therefore cannot understand is why someone would think that extending such a players contract by 2 years while his current deal has 1 year left to run makes good business sense. The club could wait until half way through next season, see how he goes and then extend it. What happens if his form drops off a cliff? What happens, god forbid, if he gets a serious injury? It's the right decision from a sentimental point of view but if the club is serious about winning things then decisions like this can't be made. We now have one less roster spot available for 2016 and 17. That limits the clubs options going forward, it blocks the potential development of a young player. It seems the club has not learned the lessons of the Keith Mason saga and that is worrying.'"
Extending Robbos contract hardly shoots down our ambitions of winning things. Forget about next season and see the signing as extending a contract of a hard working lad, with tons of experience who can play good rugby in key positions. Positions where World beaters don't exactly come around so often. For the club, and the business this extension can only be a good thing for our future surely...
He's given us plenty of reasons to celebrate the decision not question it.
