[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Our club was born in blood and boots, not in AFL focus groups.[/COLOR][/B]
You can't prove he doesn't have them. Can't prove that he wasn't visited by two of the players, as he claimed.
neither can you prove that 100% of the players wanted him sacked.
Lets put Aker to rest anyway. I'm not a supporter of his. He was pretty rude the other night. But I don't just eat what the club dishes out at press conferences.
Enough. the end.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― Epicurus
How do you know that the text messages from other players
weren't messages of good luck! The club made the right call and the only blunder they made was to bother appearing on that bogon feral love inn The Footy Show. Let the idiot hang himself IMO
I understand what you are saying, but if they were that damning, i think Aker would've made a bigger deal about the messages.
Anyway, i've had enough of the Aker talk as well.
Sam actually said on TFS that they were texts of condolence, which doesn't mean anything really.
Well he made a pretty big deal about them on the idiot show.
However, one of the players who he met with,
according to him is out of contract at the end of the season and there is no
way he can go public with their identity.
I highly suspect one is Jarrod Harbrow, who was reported in the H sun as a close friend.
Dale Morris is also said to be one.
But hey, you are right. If, in the meetings, they didn't have the kahoonas to stand up and back Aker then they obviously don't support him fully. What support they have provided is as good as nothing.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― Epicurus
I'm not sure this is a fair assessment of all personality types. Some simply aren't comfortable putting their hand up to speak up, particularly if their view is opposed by several 'important' figures within the group. Peer pressure isn't only present in the playground. Also, the preservation of one's future employment prospects can't be overstated - a young bloke isn't going to jeopardise his playing contract to speak publicly in support of one player (especially one as polarising as Aker) Matthew Lloyd said as much in today's Hun, noting that in his time at Windy Hill, in these sorts of meeting situations, 5 players would speak and 35 would say nothing.
[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Our club was born in blood and boots, not in AFL focus groups.[/COLOR][/B]
All this may be true, and maybe it's an imperfect system. And maybe it's hard on certain people, but Aker is the only player, in living memory, to be kicked out of 2 clubs.
And I imagine he would be one of the most confident and outspoken people in this type of situation.
He's hardly the nervous, shy fragile new recruit?
It's just another attempt at deflecting the blame.
[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Our club was born in blood and boots, not in AFL focus groups.[/COLOR][/B]
Stand by my comment, I would welcome back Brown before Aker. Just wait when Akers book is published, might be during our finals campaign.