One can only imagine what hardships you have had to endure this season, what with your recent poor run of form, it must be nigh on impossible to continually pick yourselves up from defeat to go forward once more into battle for the sake of your loyal supporters (both of them) to strive to win again.

Now to add insult to injury (no pun intended), I see that one of wires most toughest, honest and consistent forwards in recent times has had to retire.I am obviously talking about Mark Hilton, I know he's had a few injuries in his career (6 majors over a period of 4 years!) but his passion, his willingness to keep coming back from career threatening injuries time and time again when others fell by the wayside is surely a beacon now for all the team to draw inspiration from. In fact, how can we even sit here and compare the disappointments of your recent defeats with the sheer hardships that Mark has had to endure? My advice to the team must therefore be this: do it for the B east, don't pull on a shirt if you can't do that great man some justice.good luck, you can still do it. TD

ROB: Well Beast glad to see you're keeping yourself busy. As you well know, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel. If we could only take a leaf out of your book and do the hard yakka, I'm sure you won't fall off your chair before the season's out.