Sorry to be so negative chicken

but if I remember rightly it was around ten or twelve years back and I had a decent sized wedge burning a hole

I went to Farlows and looked at the Hardy then I trotted further down Pall Mall and popped into Sportfish.I couldn't believe how big the difference in quality was between Sage and their English rivals.Given that both the Hardy and Sage were retailing at over £500 you might (and I would) expect that they would both display rather obvious sings of truly superior quality.The Sage did but the Hardy didn't