His presence around the training ground??;D Ok ok im clutching at straws.
Fantastic player though.

Or colin best and the panther

Perhaps the benefit of an overseas experience coach?
His links with Aussie players

Hard as it is to say, the biggest difference between then and now is Paul Cooke.

Don't forget BigHead's favourite ever player** out jumping the Saints attack and running in for a 70 yarder.












**Nathan Blacklock

Bingo! The missing link. Not necessarily cookie himself, but a player of his ilk

Thats been the problem, he was our go to player our matchwinner and has never been replaced

Strictly speaking, he has been replaced. Twice. With better players.

Trouble was, neither Head nor Dykes played enough matches due to injury.

Better players yes as you say but injury prone to say the least

Moot point maybe, but in those 3 years Sintellins didn't win a title.

Maybe you frightened them into submission!

cooke wasn't the difference in those games, pace in the backline and a desire to move the ball quickly and effectively were. The loss of cooke has affected us but TBH we weren't playing that well with him and horne in the halfs. cooke has plenty of ability but his main threat was the miss out pass on the left hand side. There was a lot of criticism of us at the time tht we were a one dimensional side and that was our main (only) attacking threat. What we really need is an organising scrum half with a top quality kicking game.

Spot on.

A one dimensional team that got to the GF.

I remember people moaning about only having a left hand side attack. They seem like heady days now where there left seems to have gone the same way as the right.

And lost

So a one dimensional team was the 2nd best in the comp.

You're wasting your time. Jake the Peg has made 47 posts since last night, virtually all negative. Categorising our GF appearance as a non-achievement is the best yet though.

There's lies, damn lies and bean counter lies





I can't help it if I care about the club and want us to succeed. Unlike many on here, I can see the deficiencies at the club and that we're going backwards.

Tony who runs our bus gave us the squads from 2003 onwards. Depressing reading.

Worst thing is that this one costs more than the 2003 one

I know, not good

In all fairness, the same comments were being made at the time. We got to the GF on the back of a 13 match winning streak, but a lot of those wins were by narrow margins and largely down to sheer grit and determination coupled with Rich Horne being in the try-scoring form of his life.

I do clearly remember walking away from the GF and thinking that we needed some changes in key positions to be regular contenders. Unfortunately things went rather pear shaped in the following seasons.

We can all see the deficiencies. But what do you think posting negative thread after negative thread on here will achieve? Fair question.

2nd is first of the losers.

It will make me feel better as there's no way of venting my anger at those that run the club