20 Quotes by Dick Muir

We had been holding our breath that Butch would come through but the knee injury just keeps recurring. We have to plan accordingly.

I can honestly say that we as the coaching staff tried to impress upon the players beforehand that victory was not the most important thing in this first game. In this competition you can get lucky and win here and there, but if you don't start to consistently produce quality high-class performances, then you go nowhere.

Jake and I chatted at length and a compromise has been reached. We have agreed to carefully manage the players (in other words, they will not be run into the ground) and in return there will be no prejudice against them when Jake selects his squad for the end-of-year tour.

I think we all know that their forwards are really physical and enjoy confrontation, but I'd imagine the Bulls are also going to be chasing a bonus-point win and would therefore want to score tries.

I think continuity has been a problem in selection and our cohesion and confidence has suffered.

Our likely team will also not be revealed when we play the Cats the following Wednesday in our final warm-up. Obviously we are going to have a few surprises and we would like to keep those to ourselves.

John will get anything up to a half.

It is desperately frustrating. But we have no choice but to take it on the chin and move on.

I would imagine that 40 points would be the cut-off to make the playoffs and I think we might be a couple of points short.