JLT game 3

[PaulP]

One bad apple can spoil the entire barrel.

If we don't have players in it for the team first, then they will spoil some of the others.

I think players can tolerate a small amount of me me me attitude if they see reward for effort. You can have a great team first player (e.g. Cas or Curnow E), but those turnovers and missed goals must take their toll after a while.

It depends on the composition of the team - some blokes are less resilient and more easily led astray than others.  If by good chance you have a team of mostly resilient types, they could reap the benefits of a talented and slightly selfish player, because they work work around his deficiencies.

A lot of those elite talented players (Fev, Fyfe, Carey etc.) do have a certain arrogance and me first nature - what is super rare are the Judd and Doull types, terrific players that are also team first.