Quote Originally Posted by Scraggers View Post
West was a magnificent player ... one of the best our club had seen, and therefore deserved a much bigger hullabaloo and the end of his career. What he received was a travesty ... BUT I knew it was coming, you knew it was coming, the club knew it was coming, Westy knew it was coming. It shouldn't have come as such a shock !!

Why he didn't get the send off he so richly deserved ... I'm still waiting for an appropriate explanation
We all thought he might be gone but in reality nothing was confirmed and the door was ever so slightly ajar.

West and Fantasia were also guests at one of the finals games functions I attended and there was no indication during the interviewing that he was gone.

Why didn't it happen earlier? Perhaps the driving reason was that the club wanted no distractions leading into the finals once it was confirmed that Wests injury would mean he would play no part in it.

I sympathise with the club especially Eade and Fantasia because a mixture of devastating news that needs to be delivered and an emotional player won't make a great cocktail but I'd like to think with the power of hindsight we could have done things in a more satisfactory manner.
The general view is that West actions forced the clubs hand but I still don't see it that way.