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Absolutely but then you have to question why we signed GIts when we had Daruda, or why we signed a new scrummie when we had stannard. Even now, we're trying to poach quality overseas players to secure a good fly half so JOC will be encouraged to stay, yet with the talent we have in the back line and a newly signed quality scrummie we could stick with some of the talent we already have and should still be able to recruit him. If that's not good enough for him then in accordance with the attitude shown by some twfers here towards players who put of their decision to stay here, we should tell him to get lost...but no one seems prepared to say that in this case.
If a club has the ability and resources to secure some of the best players in the world then why wouldn't they do it? The Force's reasoning now is that we tried that and we didn't play any better, and then they left. So now we have a new strategy. For the Brumbies, they've spent a year trying to build up their local talent and have decided (whether rightly or wrongly) that it isn't working for them. So they have a new strategy - buy good players, or buy good players back.
I'm just saying that we we're either the pot or the kettle here...