This is the best post lol, literally everyone on the kennel passes on every player that is available, who the fuck do youse want lol,
Don’t get me wrong, he’s a cockhead clearly. Has some issues. Clearly.
Can play football and has elite attributes we badly lack. Clearly.
If he’s an option then he is a huge improvement and a strict contract is a no brainer. Unless you would rather choir boys who are fucking hopeless at football.
I compete in a contact sport in boxing and my trainer was an Australian champ and had a very successful career and one thing he said has said always stuck in my head, whenever I get questions on certain aspects of the sport from family and wife’s family and others that don’t understand the sport or contact sports without demeaning or thinking we are uneducated. Whenever I get the do you want your kids growing up with that as what your father did etc Etc.
every good competitor in any sport has to have some **** in him. I don’t enjoy hurting people, or consider myself a thug or any bullshit that I have been called/heard. Though it’s a love of my sport and a inner challenge that you find in yourself to compete and succeed. In that and outside that is two different people. What I’m trying to say is what we see in field and what they are like off field is two completely different things. I consider Mundine a complete wanker: though I know for a fact off the camera he is a really nice level guy.
I don’t care if it’s that, grub instinct (like Ennis and Reynolds where) or a complete thug like packer/lodge/gavet and others have shown in their life and history. They aren’t paid to look after our family or raise our children. Some come from terrible up bringing and terrible history/baggage.
I get that kids look up to them. With that being the case it’s why you give them strict contracts. If they do something so disgusting like packer/lodge did or slap their misses around sack them. Charge them and send them to jail as they should.
If they can’t keep off the piss and be responsible athlete they won’t last either.
Though for me I’d rather have a Roberts, Ferguson, Munster, Pearce, Gagai, Fifita, Bromwich etc that has shown to have drinking issues or party boy issues and a bit of a cockhead at some stage in their career then be left with holland and Montoya and fighting for the Fucking spoon every year.