You're the one trying to re-write history. You're confusing love affair and emotional investment with vision, but I'll forgive you that, because you're using your love affair with Bennett and emotional investment with Boyd, to excuse their failures.
Go ahead, please deny that I predicted exactly what is happening now!
BTW, here's the list of players I'm supposedly emotionally involved with, which I've talked up in here before they had a chance to prove me right or wrong:
- Matt Gillett
- Jordan Kahu
- Ashley Taylor
- Jayden Nikorima
- Joe Ofahengaue
Shock, horror!
As to Milford. He was recruited well before Hunt had established himself, BECAUSE all our halves experiences were absolute poo. We had Prince as halfback, and fucking Hoggman as 5/8 at the time FFS! Bennett had ZERO involvement in Milford's recruitment.
But even when Hunt did establish himself in the desert that was our halves roster, and made a good fist of it, plenty of people still had doubts about a partnership between the two.
2015 made it look much better than it really was, but even then, we had no game management or kicking to speak of, but Hunt was never spoken as the future Australian 7 by any expert. However, he was definitely spoken of as a potential utility, which I still believe he can become, both in the Qld and Australian teams.