He can have been wrong to give a clearly salty interview and still be a sky blue hero, the two things aren't mutually exclusive.
If your best mate behaves like a penis, you don't stop being his mate, you just tell him he's being a penis and to sort it out.
I think the option to start with BTA and have Rudoni ready to come on and terrorise tired opposition is what's potentially exciting, especially for the run in to Christmas.
More the fact that we stood by him through 2 serious injuries and THEN he left on a free for what many saw as a sideways move. I don't personally share that view but I can appreciate that it does look a bit "ungrateful" if you want to call it that.
I know what you mean but teams that still win when they aren't playing well generally do pretty well. I think part of it is our expectations have risen dramatically.
The match fitness is a concern you're right and we shouldn't just add bodies for the sake of it.
Josh Da Silva is the obvious candidate for me but I'm sure he will have offers.
It's easy to dismiss free agents as cast offs but at the moment there are some really good free agents available. It's definitely a market we should look at.