Let me spell it out, if Barrett was amazed 9 months ago then he surely wouldn't still be amazed, he would be well past that, he would be angry, pissed off, annoyed, displeased, hostile etc. He would have also done something about it, shopped him around, told him he wasn't worth it, dropped him from the NRL squad, told him to find a new home, start kicking stones in the car park, anything to force him out.
Maybe it's just me, but after 9 months I would be well past "amazed", I'd have moved on to other emotions and I sure as hell would have done something about it.
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