Hmmm.... I wonder how long before any Saints games he abstained. Actually, the way that Saints were performing, he was probably drinking during the games!
Not to take anything away from the points that you made, but I am sure that I read somewhere that it was Wotte who brought Murty in, in the first place.
Watched a magnificent film last night called "To End All Wars" with Robert Carlisle and Keifer Sutherland. The true story of Allied POW`s "helping" to build the Burma railway for the Jap invasion of India. A wonderfully filmed and at times very moving piece of cinema.