I think it is unknown how much of a cancer any of them were or how accurate any of the kicking rocks and what not stories were.Mate Bateman and klemmer , kicked rocks and were locker room cancers , the whole time they were here . Old guys living on yesterday’s success , upset because the coach was like , you’re on double those kids , actually earn your money instead of bitching about who gets credit for the wins. Staines wasn’t mistreated , they simply didn’t renew his contract . Sullivan is the only one, and to be perfectly honest he was given first crack . He had multiple opportunities across now 3 organisations , he’s a good guy apparently but not a strong trainer . He’s a bevan French type who will eventually head to England and get himself a man of steel , and everyone will forget how big average he was in nrl , and talk about how we messed up letting him go … I’ll say year .2028 .
Klemmer has a narrative where you could say he’s mistreated . Not true ! . But even then the club told him guys had gone past him , told him that it wasn’t looking good to hit his quota and gave him permission to talk . He wasn’t mistreated ? Why because the club didn’t want to pay a reserve grader 700k . He agreed to the contract . You telling me if he played like 2018 David Klemmer the club wouldn’t have activated that clause ? Bullshit … but it was in there for a reason .. th club was worried he’d fall off a cliff … and he did . Simply smart business .
I do however largely agree as i don't think not renewing someone like Staines is mistreating them and moving them all on has ultimately been good cap management. I just don't see how it is any different to what's happened/happening at Bulldogs?