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Message: [QUOTE="Renegade, post: 2343091, member: 1928"] I am struggling to blame it on anyone other than broncos management. People are saying he's dog and whatever, fine, they're entitled to that, but at least Souths and their clique have done everything they can to sign him, to show him he's wanted. What did Brisbane do? Play hardball at every single opportunity, almost inferring that we didn't really want him but because his gf was moving here you might as well play for us anyway. You see it time and time again in european football (soccer), players and agents dilly-dally around when being woo'ed by potential employers, more often than not the club that does the most gets their man. But no, Brisbane has to roll out the 'nobodys bigger than the club' line. It's got fucking nothing to do with that, and everything to do with ambition. Brisbane showed none, Souths showed heaps. I mean ***** sake, this opportunity was gift-wrapped and all we had to do was write his name on it and we couldn't even do that, we had the following going for us: He wanted to play with Lockyer He wanted to play with Hodges His GF was moving here for a fulltime job He wanted to get out of Melbourne Seriously? How the **** did we screw up his signature when we had the aforementioned on our side of the ledger? And as for rumours about his well-being, wasn't it not so long ago that Benji's career was hanging by a thread, and that Civo was on his last legs and had more strappin than a racehorse? Ah yes, those always seem to conveniently come up when things don't transpire the way you want. I have my doubts that he's got nothing more than wear and tear, but I guess we'll see. Two other points: Cullen mentioning that we'll be able to retain Lockyer, Parker and Hodges now with the money we were gonna spend on Inglis.... so the **** what? Lockyer wasn't going to ask for much to play in 2012, Parker should never be on huge money anyway and Hodges could be as useless as a bag of shit come 2012 given his injuries, his notorious rehab capabilities and his age. And how everyone is saying omg we'll be fine we have all these young kids and bla bla bla. Hey guys, where did the kids get us this season? Oh that's right, we finished outside the 8 for the first time in 20 years. They must be good. Now, don't take this as, I don't want to invest in any youth or whatever else, but the fact is, our youth didn't really get us aywhere last year, and yes we were missing Hodges all season and yes we missed Lockyer at the most crucial part. But guess what? Who knows how well Hodges can recover, if he is even half the player he was in 2011, and Lockyer is going to be another year older, another year slower (not in the head but in the legs) ...we best hope these young kids step up because if the latter two start to unwind in terms of contribution we are in serious, serious shit. [/QUOTE]

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