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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3572178, member: 8215"] I was incredibly pessimistic after 2015 for exactly these reasons. In that case though, Hodges was gone, and he was arguably the most influential player that year (certainly the most inspirational). No one dragged a team to victory like him. We still have Reynolds for another year, if not two. There were massive positives of course with Hunt and Milford, but of course that all changed when Hunt got offered an insane contract, and Milford was exposed as a lazy fraud. But the biggest issue was injury. On the comparisons with Hunt & Milford, in our case the equivalents would be Mam and Walsh, who aren't the 6&7 of course, but are the young excitement machines that we (like H&M) we all expect to feature in rep teams for the next decade. Neither are the sort to be rattled like Hunt was, and both seem to be the exact [I]opposite[/I] of Milford, in that they are both hungry to learn and improve. The injuries though, they are critically under-rated when it comes to premiership chances. No surprise once again that the two best teams were the ones who were effectively full strength at the back end of the year. In hindsight, Walters did an excellent job in terms of resting players at the right times, but this is the one factor that simultaneously most crucial and yet hardest to control. [/QUOTE]

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