Re: Ratchford : Wed May 09, 2018 10:48 am
Captain Hook wrote:
easyWire this is a squad that is over the salary cap (when you take into account the marquee exemption before other fans get too excited), if it is "Lambrini" then someone needs to answer for it. I actually think you are being a bit unfair Ratchford, Atkins, Charnley, Roberts, Hill, Clarke, Currie and BMM are definitely a cut above. K Brown, Cooper, Lineham hardly bargain basement.
When I say Lambrini vs Dom Perignon I’m referring to the relative quality, not the value. I like this current squad but I think it would be silly to say it’s of a higher calibre than the one of 2011-2013.
Smith’s squad in the good years was almost certainly more talented in most positions, and I was using that towards the argument of Smith being better at utilising superstars, whereas I’d back Price to make better use of good/average players. Smith certainly didn’t have a good track record with key players who were less than star quality - 2014/15/17 showed that.
Maybe instead of Lambrini I should have used Moet vs Dom Perignon i.e. decent enough for the wife’s birthday but you were never going to spend more than £25 on her and certainly not £120 a bottle like Dommy P.