That mentality might be okay in school but not in the professional game. I would assume all players make it known where they prefer to play with their coach and have open adult communication about it. Coaches will naturally favour some players over others, and the outcome of that will help player and club make decisions about moving forward. No player with any ambition is prepared to play in reserves or second fiddle to a player the coach backs if there is opportunity to cement a FG position elsewhere - the very reason Niccho Hines looked for an opportunity at the SharksI think it's time that someone made a comment about player attitude and entitlement. What's happened to the game that we now have players believing that they should only play in their favourite position. Guys demanding to play fullback or, in our situation, either halfback (Hastings) or five eighth (Douehi) is ridiculous when they're paid good money to do a job for their team in whichever position the coach sees fit. Call me old fashioned but this crap needs to stop. If the player doesn't like the position assigned to them, which the coach believes is best for the team, let them sulk in reserves! It should never lead to a player agitating for a release but, of course we know it's starting to become common practice.
We all just like to fill in the dots about player coach relationships based on our own clouded bias where ever that may lie - you rate the player coach is an idiot, you don't rate the player he can go kick stones in resi's.