You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― Epicurus
Let's just see what we get as compensation and what the options are with the picks.
Footy has made me a nastier person this year.
But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.
Callan who?
Go dogs.
Hope Ward's career goes to shit.
There's a few people I know already who have 'walked away' - per se - from football and the club. I think it's completely understandable.
I'm disappointed, but in reality I think he's been overrated. Tough, hard at it, sounds like a good kid. Average skills most of the time. We need more polish and hopefully we use this as an opportunity, not a problem.
This is the thing. I'm very disappointed in Wards decision and whilst it's understandable I don't think he has made the right decision and the timing of it is far from ideal. You simply can't put a price on the adulation he would have received if he had chosen to stay.
That being said, why did he make that decision and how much of it has the club contributed to that?
My guess (it's only a guess) is that we could have had this stitched up last year and a good pro-active club would have had it all completed before someone had the chance to get into his ear. It's certainly a missed opportunity for us in my opinion.
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