(03-25-2017, 12:55 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:The main issue for folks, from what I can see, is the question of his value which is obviously related to the size of his paycheck.
If, for the sake of argument, he was being paid half of what he was contracted at, would the same criticisms be advanced? Don't know, but I would suspect they would be at a much lower level.
Without criticising Daisy, but much much more was expected by many from him, primarily in terms of on field performance, for what he is/was being paid. He acknowledged that himself. I think what we are really mainly seeing is a lot of frustration being vented rather than actual blaming or hatred of him personally tbh.
He's clearly in our best 22, what he gets paid is irrelevant, and we cannot keep butchering our youth under the guise of accelerated development. If the likes of Daisy were not out there Thursday night we'd have lost by far more probably because we would have been even more disorganised.
Continual depressing losses are like Chinese water torture, the kids won't recover from them, the pressure will build and their only way forward will be to find greener pastures.
We need the likes of White, Thomas, Wright, Casboult, Kreuzer, Armfield, Murphy, Gibbs, E.Curnow, Rowe, etc., etc., to stand up and look after the kids. Lead them for feck sake! Not just use them as some sort of sacrificial chop-out shield of self-preservation to extend their own careers. Last Thursday only Murphy, Kreuzer, Wright and Thomas get a pass mark in this regard.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"