Doubt cleeland will play first grade while Hasler is here.
Stop Jilling!!
Through the clubs junior systems there are so manny top gun young players produced.
Ask any Under 20s player and they will tell you that the NRL has in place that many mentoring and support systems that their heads spin. They get ongoing mentoring on gambling, drugs, health, lifestyles, associations, finance, education all the time. At the end of the day some people don't want to listen to good advice and/or start believing the press about them and go off the rails. At some point you have to recognise that having 25 highly fit, type A personalities in a group, working under high pressure with great expectations is ultimately going to lead to some of them not coping and doing the wrong thing. Doesn't excuse their behaviour but does explain it. Depending on how far they go off the rails they can be salvaged or cut loose. That's life but it is of their own making.
Well said - id also add, whilst not just sport related, using or labelling high profile people as role models - whether they be good or bad - is a cop out. Parents are the role models - get it right from 0 to 7yo - you wont need mentors, etc when they are 16 etc.
Why would a personality clash with a coach result in him going to a counselor? All that results in is a player getting dropped. He obviously has mental health issues - psychological.
We should make it POSSIBLE !
True, but unfortunately inept parents try to live their own lives through their kids and especially when they get one with a talent for something. They then just try and treat them as mini-adults and meal tickets so when things go belly up it just makes things worse.
