Is dead to me. If I never hear his name again, will be happy. He was, and I assume still is, a deceitful person where simple concepts like loyalty & trust does not reside.
End this thread & burn it
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Bit harsh.
Probably just a bloke who wanted to play footy at a decent club.
He achieved that goal.
Was he loyal ā¦. NO
Was he deceitful ā¦ā¦ YES
Fark him
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He was Joey,
Iām not sure he is smart enough to be deceitful.
He was just selfish.
Doesnāt take a lot of nous to achieve that.
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Are the players who join us from other clubs also deceitful and selfish?
Did they fake injury (speculation) or not commit purposefully to their own rehab for years on end while being paid one of the highest salaries at their club for almost no output? Probably not
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It seems too good to be true.
But he is a Daniher, and that seems a very Daniher thing to do.
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I genuinely felt like this guy couldāve been an all time greatā¦a freak like Buddy or Carey.
Turned out to be a very good player who played at about 80% of his limit
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Yeah, he had all the tools to be a generational player just not the mental makeup. Put Lloyd mindset into Joeys head and he could of been anything.
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I think we can be pretty sure he didnāt enjoy being an AFL player Melbourne fish bowl. When he joined Brisbane he didnāt even live in Queensland. And now heās retired while one of the best key forwards in the game.
Hard to begrudge him moving when he chose to leave for lifestyle reasons. And also he probably also wanted success before he retired too. Youād have to say it was a pretty good decision too.
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I think he enjoyed playing footy.
He couldnāt stand living footy.
He was good enough at the former he didnāt have to completely do the latter. Now he has nothing else left to achieve, why deal with all the unwanted stuff?
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Depends whether they were meeting with another teams recruiting people whilst their existing team mates were preparing for a final. All on the back of a $900k per year base. What a selfish flog, then lied about the reason for the meeting. Yeah, deceitful fits the bill.
I wonāt mention taking the $900k & not playing to ensure he was fit & well at the end of the year for his new homeā¦ thats taking money dishonestly, nearly fraud to be frank. If I was a company billing for no work thats jail time.
Really not much of a bloke to be blunt, just a kant of a man
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It was reported as 2 mill over 3 years.
Which is less than 700k a year, and well under what he could have got off being an AA and BnF winner at age 23.
Just stupid enough to think Anzac Day losses are going to be fullfilling
Also keeping in mind he wanted to go the year before, which wouldāve given us pick 5 & pick 10 or something.
Was convinced to stay.
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I donāt know why but it feels like Grundy has been around a lot longer than Joe.
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Chris Fagan on a podcast was saying that the Thursday after the Grand Final when he and Joe sat down to chat about his future (Fagan was half trying to change his mind), Joe said āFages, I wanted to retire at 20ā.
Did well to eek out another 10 years lol!
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This is so much in keeping with list management decisions before and since that point. We were always terrified of players wanting to leave, in reality the response to players wanting out should be to move them on and use it as an opportunity to address deficiencies in your list build. right now i wish we had more players wanting to leave.
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