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Message: [QUOTE="Porthoz, post: 2558256, member: 2221"] Sorry, I didn't accuse you of defamation anywhere, did I? I answered cammac's post about speculation, where there is a big difference between giving someone a compliment, or making an accusation based on speculation or assumptions, which as you probably know... is called defamation! Your comments on Thurston are based on what you know, and that's fair enough. You're also extrapolating and making assumptions over the current recruitment without any facts to back it up. You seem to be ignoring everything that is being said that goes against your opinion, and emphasising the 5% of information that did surface, to support your agenda. I'm just not the type to bag anyone without having my ducks in a row, so I will bag the crap out of certain aspects of Griffin's performance as a coach, as it is based on facts that everyone can see. But when it comes to stuff that happens behind closed doors and the parties only feed you what they want you to hear, I'm very careful about jumping to conclusions. You don't have all the facts and neither do I, but I do have more information than the sound bits given to the journos. They didn't put a millionair offer on the table for Thurston for several reasons: - The team performed quite well in 2011 if you recall. - There were a lot of players they wanted to keep, who would otherwise be lost should we satisfy Thurston's salary demands. - Even offering an exorbitant amount of money wasn't a guarantee that Johnathan would move, as the Panthers found out. - There was obviously a lot more confidence in Norman's ability to substitute Lockyer than there should have been. - Except for a period in 2010, Wallace had been a serviceable halfback and nothing indicated he would drop as drastically as he did, especially in 2013. That type of investment in a player that was about to turn 30 wasn't justifiable in light of the above. They probably should have gone harder than they did, but no one bagged the club's decision at the time, unlike today... when people have the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. Even though they may have been wrong then, it doesn't mean they aren't trying to correct it now, and the current recruitment certainly doesn't justify the disdain shown by some people. We have Barba, we have Milford, we went hard for Smith, we got size in our forward pack with Kennedy, added much needed depth with Lowrie, Mills and Vidot, especially the backline players. Yet people continue bagging the recruitment, because we didn't assure the pipeline dreams of Thurston, Cronk and DCE, and based on some theory that Hook/Gee/White were lucky to see these players shoved down their throat... [/QUOTE]

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