Does it matter what training was being done ? The problem is his exposure to Galvin … who according to some here “got in the ear” of another player and encouraged him to leave the club …
Should we be concerned now about Bula?
That was always going to happen re. Other player (TDS). The problem was that the club , with both Benji and more importantly McDonnell and sheens , had whispered so much sweet nothings in theses kids ear , that when they got to nrl the obvious issues in thier game , Galvins selfishness (I’m not going to pick him apart I IDGAF) , and TDS poor defence, lack of a kick and selfishness around the line , as well as as the game went on his distribution would fall off a cliff as he became more and more fatigued .
Tumeth … same thing . Matamua same thing . When the expectations and promises weren’t aligning with the talent output , they all got offside because they’d had soo much wind pumped up their arse . And the shittiest thing about all of this , is Richo let the large brothers walk , my guess from the outside looking in , was to reinforce that culturally IMO that Matt’s winning side , had a rot that had set in . (Yes I know Matamua and Tumeth weren’t in that side , it proves my point about where the egos have come from) .
I think the next wave with Makasini and Godinet and Tapau Moors and Heyward , seem to from the outside looking looking in , have a different attitude around this stuff. It doesn’t appear to be a whole lot of entitlement.
I mean seriously we had millet swinging his dick in reserve grade after debuting , where he was clearly not up to it IMO, as the was Lazarus and Webcke hybrid 2.0.
I hope the club learnt from this , and I do understand how it happened , they tried to promote loyalty through pumping up the tyres of these kids , rather than a buy in to the club in general. Ie. this nrl jersey is earnt through hard work , and talent … but mostly hard work . I think Benji has this message well and truely permeating through the club now . But unfortunately for a large chunk of that wests Matt’s team , the message was lost . Some key packets of information were lost in transmission . And for that blame the club . I blame Betsy , I blame sheens and McDonnell , I blame Fulton , I blame to a lesser degree gallant , and I also blame Benji. But most of all I really blame Pascoe as he clearly had NFI how to actually run a footy club , and to. Heck these types of rot . We simply didn’t and don’t have the geographical pull of a manly , to be able to have this type of shit permeating through the club. Which is all evidence of why we won’t those spoons . And it was obvious too for everyone . You’d hear journos talk about it , managers talk about , 360 talk about , everyone down the pub who had a smallest bit of insight into the club talk about , there was a podcast where 2 brothers who would coach and were coaching here , now he’s an assistant at Canberra (Brock) he would allude to it . I’m glad sanity has prevailed , but yea there’s going to be still residual effects from this time . And for that we all need a o be patient and recognise this . Sure we’ve come out the other side , but yea there’s going to be residual bad culture still within the club, to which they will need to slowly weed out.