I highly doubt that, bro. We got Melbourne and the Cowboys at a very good time. Had a lot of early season good luck to offset the bad luck we've had in recent weeks. Even at full strength I think we lose to Souths and Parra comfortably. Melbourne beat us if both sides are at full strength too.... Cowboys have been poor and a match between us and them at full strength would be a toss up. I think if both us and our opponents had been at full strength in every match, we'd be sitting on 1 or 2 wins, at very most.
Barrett was horrendous. If I'm Gus, I'm not using Ciraldo being a bit better than him as a measuring stick of success.
And we all know Ciraldo is very close with Crichton and pushed hard for his signing.
Hope I'm wrong, but I just don't have a good feeling about Ciraldo and haven't from the start. maybe I'm just jaded because I expected better of Pay and especially Barrett and they both turned out to be flops...especially Barrett. I expected too much, so maybe I am compensating now by expecting little and hoping they surprise me lol