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“Can you imagine (Sharks coach) Craig Fitzgibbon dropping Nicho Hynes to jumper number 22 and not having a chat with him first?" DT Article For me this has always been the main question. A question of repsect. Did Benji speak with AD about being dropped in the correct way? If he didn't then...

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There are many problems and few positives Our defensive resolve is very average, we have some very good defensive sets but then follow them up with some poor efforts. And we put ourselves under pressure with so many silly errors. I think JL seemed make the most. Our attack looked good in...

From the SMH article. If this is the case, (who knows what actually happened) but Benji needs to have alook at how he deals with dropping people. Tell someone two days before the game, really? (I can't believe it and back Benji) And the halfback of the team? What's going on? Is this article BS?

Yes maybe and if true this is very very ordinary. Its hard to believe a player could be this childish. I'm backing Benji in telling AD that he was going to play lock or be a reserve when the team was being announced, I hope so because if AD didn't find out until he after he was let off, would...

No of course I don't support AD's actions But I hope he didn't find out on Thursday morning, like I have said a number of times, this deserves a deeper discusion between coach and halfback.

Because it goes to the heart of Benji's handling of the situation Yes reserves, so he could have been slotted into halfback or lock. I'm just wondering if he was told that it would be lock when the team was announced, when was he told? Thursday? 'AD you will be playing lock, if you get off'...

Well if that's the case Benji needs a close look at how he handled the situation. A coach assumes he's getting off but Benji didn't name him at half, so you assume Andrews was preffered over AD. But weirdly AD only found out about this on Thursday morning?????

Thats beside the point, he was the current halfback. So he was dropped, then? Which is fine if thats what the coach wanted, but why did it take until Thursday for it to play out.

He should speak to all the players about this sort of stuff, especially your halfback. Did AD have any idea that he was going to be dropped, I wonder? It seems he didn't (Speculation)

For a halfback to be named at lock is pretty close

Then whay wasn't he named at lock. If Benji had a frank discussion with AD about being dropped, things might have been different

Any halfback thats going to get dropped needs at least offered a frank discussion with the coach.....before the team is announced. Really, if Benji didn't so that, I'd be p*ssed as well

Again what you're saying is Benji didn't even float the idea with his chief playmaker until two days before the game. He just saw his name not in the team? And the all of a sudden on Thursday he gets told "By the way AD, you're playing lock this week" And he wasn't even named at lock. So...

So Benji didn't discus this with AD prior? Seems very strange that the coach would talk to his key playmaker only two days before the game? I believe a decision like this would need much more investement with the player then two days before the game.

I don't understand what that has anything to do with my question, sorry. Why send him if he knew he wasn't going to play? To make a point or something?

Yes, I understand that. But why send him if he knew he wasn't going to play? To make a point or something?

So did AD already know he was going to play at lock before he went to the judiciary? Why would the Tigers go through the judiciary process, if they knew he wasn't going to play? Well that is crazy, who paid for the judiciary appearance, did AD go without the Tigers consent? Or did he say he...

Forget about AD's poor behaviour for a second, that's clear. However, I was wondering why did it happen on the Thursday, two days before the game? Why wouldn't these discussions take place at the start of the week? Or even weeks a go? Did AD find out, all of a sudden? Just wondering how this...