it’s in the daily telegraph article re. His issues around double standards and lack of performance .
As for your issues with the kids , who else was coming to replace them . Sheens screwed the 30 man by offering all our gun juniors top 30 spots. With toa injured , and the balance of the top 30 all out of whack , and the Naden brain farts , who was replacing the kids ?
As for Galvin .. so Sullivan ? Really ? Because Fainu was out most of the year with his hamstrings , so that’s the only other real option . AD cannot tackle so that’s fixing anything, and in 3 games if Sullivan I saw enough to see he wasn’t first grade material . Maybe 4 years in SL might change that but not now . So I understand this narrative you keep spinning about get rid of the kids , because there was no one to replace them with .
And I played in the pack most my life as well , and the narrative around lack of points was a stat of the season issue . It wasn’t an end of season issue . And even if hypothetically it was , so you drop your bundle because your halves are shit ? How does that make any sense . The scoreline of that game was like 44-26 or something . Hardly a lack of points .
By the time the points started to come guys like klemmer and Stef had checked out , and Bateman was off his head . That’s on their own personal mental toughness .
I also wish we dropped most of the kids , but what was Benji meant to do though ? The fragility of the young mind is a real thing , they constantly need cuddles and pep talks . It is what it is . Even the most hardened kid , will always respond better to positive reinforcement . Bateman was paid to be a leader . And he didn’t perform that function at all . All he’s done recently is prove what many pundits and so called experts were saying when we signed the guy “he’s not leadership material “ .
Everybody is a legend when everything is going great , it’s when things are shit that people’s real character shows through .
