I can see CHN has sent a video apologising to the club and its really annoyed me to see our players congratulating him on his move on it? Yes he has apologised and he admitted to losing us a major sponsor and derailing our season before it had begun. However he has still left us high and dry, he can clearly see how much we are struggling this year and even after all he did he has just left the club. Instead of helping the boys whos season he derailed he has just jumped ship , I appreciate he had issues with the club however the club were annoyed and rightly so. We have only now just got a major sponsor after 11 rounds, I just believe he owed the club after what he did and I also believe our players should be spewing he has left us whilst we are down and they shouldnt be congratulating him. Nobody is bigger than our club, CHN could of atleast finished the year and tried to help fix a mess he was certainly a part of.
Thanks for posting your thoughts, they are really interesting. I'd suggest that we probably shouldn't read too much into the players general reaction. The club is always going to present itself as being player friendly in cases like CHN, because doing anything else just makes it harder to recruit in future. There were rumours flying around about Cotric that he was not all that happy to sign with us, and even if those rumours are fictional, the club is still going to be sensitive to that. So it was always going to publicly play nice in terms of waving goodbye to CHN. Any of our players who hope to get re-signed by the club and/or is hoping the club can land a couple of key players to make the team more competitive is going to fall into line with that.
Though the club and players have to play it careful, we as fans have the luxury of blurting out whatever the hell we want, with no repercussions about whether we are right or wrong. I'm with all fans who tell it like it is with CHN, he was selfish, he cost the club, and then he cut and ran like a coward.
It is interesting to have a look through the raiders forum, they are mixed about picking up CHN. Some of them are stuck in the 1970s and think that the only thing that matters about a football player is what they do on the field, which is manifestly not true as proven by CHN and OK and plenty of others (if Barba had been playing in the 70s he'd be still playing, but today even a Dally M medal winner can be sacked from the game). Others are completely against CHN, they don't like what he did, and they fear the same thing happening at their club. Others are mixed, they welcome what he can do on the field, but they are worried about what he will do off the field, they hope the club can keep a rein on him, and there is quite a few mentions of the Curtis Scott incident. Also, some are mentioning that CHN moved on both from Penriff and Bulldogs, and see him as a selfish journeyman.
Fact is where ever CHN ends up in future some people are going to be unhappy and some are going to be concerned. Of course next time he gets anywhere near a blue and white jersey there will be a bunch of people cheering for him to get belted, but after the game I expect all our players to shake him by the hand.
