Blitz is filled with little crybabys who lose any ability for critical thought once any mention of The Age is made, no matter how factual or removed from the saga it may be
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Unfortunately bullshit hysteria sells. Whether thatâs papers or visits to websites, it sells.
If you overheard that a convicted murderer out on bail was living in your neighbourhood, youâd listen to that report and are more likely to remember it than the report about that sweet 80 year old woman who always wins the school fete baking competition.
Isnât it the players that vote in leadership? It could have simply been that they wanted to reduce the list and hooker/hurls had the lease votes of the group⌠Not so much that hurls and hooker were specifically removedâŚ
That sounds reasonable.
Still havenât heard how itâs beneficial to remove two highly respected players who made financial sacrifices to stay with the club when we shat on them from a very great height.
You do realise that Hooker and Hurley were actually cut from the leadership group right? If this headline was in any other publication or about any other club you wouldnât have given two â â â â â about it
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Hang on, the club has done something? Right must be time to complain about it then.
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Because that was never the decision that the club made, they would have made the decision to cut two from the leadership group to streamline / refocus i and the players ultimately decided that who those two would be.
Itâs a bit of a non issue.
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I think Hurley and Hooker would disagree about it being a non issue.
Maybe the inclusion of Rutten is the cause of them being the two removed. If you need to pick the brain of someone who knows the correct defensive structures why not ask the guy thatâs implementing it rather than two guys who are just learning it. Someone learning something also find it harder to remove the emotion from discussions.
Leadership on field is an expectation on all players, I canât see those two leading and behaving any different on field.
Off field Heppell is the most approachable especially with staff, Myers does stuff on mental health Iâm pretty sure, Merrett does things for players association and the league, Fantasia does a lot of promotional/ corporate events and Daniher I believe does the same. Possibly the selection could have been weighted more on the off field leadership.
Who knows.
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Obviously nothing is as it seems but itâs still hard to imagine Daniher getting more votes than Hooker or Hurley.
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When it comes to leadership groups and votes, Iâd imagine the players themselves would have a pretty good idea about who provides more off-field. We also have a pretty young list and they would have more interaction with Daniher, Fantasia and Merrett than they do with the older guys on the list, like Hurley and Hooker
Fair call.
Not really. I think daniher is quite a strong on field leader and a lot of the forwardline would see that and vote for him accordingly
You seem to be a worse case scenario type guy.
Hopefully Hooker and Hurley missing out says more about the guys who made it than it does about them
Hurley has never struck me as someone who would be vocal off the field, on the field he is definitely a âlead-by-exampleâ-type which isnât going to be affected by him not being in some leadership group. The same applies to Hooker, although Iâd expect him to be a more vocal extroverted type at the club.
Both of them arenât the types to crack the sads and both will continue to mentor the young defenders, this will just allow them to spend less time in meetings and more time focusing on their own games, which at their age is probably a good thing.
Personally, Iâm more surprised by the absence of Dev Smith
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You seen to defend the club even when itâs jot necessary.
They arenât infallible.
The last 15 years has shown us that.
âOwn their personal leadership capacitiesâ - what a terrible phrase. What was wrong with âbe leadersâ or âshow leadershipâ?
Woosha must sit up late at night thinking of new gobbledygook phrases like this. Or maybe heâs hoping to become a politician when he finishes coaching?
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Iâm assuming itâs similar to Zaka indicating he doesnât mind if not in LG but is still a leader and looks to be such via how he goes about training and by taking a few players under his wing.
As per the boys who went to Colorado with him, and you saw in the recent Langford clip that clearly they have bonded well.
IMO Hooker would be the most hard done by really, going from VC to out of group altogether.
If it was me would have been him staying in for either Myers or JD (so can focus on getting his body right) out.
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