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[The Underdog]

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At his age I was doing a Bachelor of Arts and had quit football to concentrate on drinking. I guess he's closer to my end of the spectrum than yours and Dale Morris'.
Some of us are equipped to deal with the way things work early on, some of us take a while and some never figure it out at all. Hopefully he figures it out and makes a career for himself, but in the end he has to do what's best for him. If it is quitting professional football to move home and play WAFL, that's what it is. There'll be a Dale Morris to move up and take his place on the production line.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

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It's all well and good in the current climate to trot out he's just a kid line, but he's been front and centre telling the world he learnt a lesson not getting drafted in 2012.
For mine clubs invest a lot of time effort and money on drafted players and the damage re. Sponsorship and brand can hurt clubs ( particular like ours)

Slow developers can be the best like wine and concrete, the slower the development the better. Jesus Christ did nothing til he was thirty. Bernie Quinlan and even Johnno were at their best around thirty, regardless of reasons to Garlett.
Garlett is clearly very immature but he is owning it by approaching the coach and senior staff, a very brave thing to do. It's always scary to come out about your shortcomings.

[ledge]

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I think it's a spin he has come out, the club would know by catching him out or seeing his devotion isn't there.
The club would know where he is at, they are the ones watching his progression and knowing his previous record. My thoughts are the club has pulled him into the office told him to start doing what he is paid for and pull his head in.
His agent and the club would have got together and said let's put this story forward, which is kind of true, he is struggling but it's more he can't help his other ways.

[Happy Days]

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I am his age and I suck, so I empathise with his situation. It takes an enormous amount of emotional maturity to give up a large degree of your social life to dedicate yourself entirely to a dream that statistics reflect you probably won't achieve.

Having said that it would be deeply disappointing if he makes nothing of his opportunity.

[1eyedog]

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According to Mark Stevens, murmurs about Dayle Garletts career in jeopardy at the Hawks, sounds like a real bad egg if true.

Look this is simply not true. He is struggling with the demands of football he's not a bad egg as you put it.

He would want to start pulling his head in, I guess we are all different but at his age I was at college full time plus ran my own small business and was playing sport, if a club like Hawthorn are almost saying enough is enough, there must be something seriously not quite right with him.

On the other side of the fence you'd have a young Dale Morris being rejected but continually refusing to go out with his mates to focus 100% on living his dream of playing AFL.

Good for you that you were able to achieve so much so young, but everyone is different and I'm not sure about your background but Dayle did it pretty tough at times.

[Bornadog]

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I am his age and I suck, so I empathise with his situation. It takes an enormous amount of emotional maturity to give up a large degree of your social life to dedicate yourself entirely to a dream that statistics reflect you probably won't achieve.

Having said that it would be deeply disappointing if he makes nothing of his opportunity.

Lets not forget it is probably 3 times as hard for an indigenous person in this country of ours which is not short of racism and hate.

I hope he can make something of himself, and make his people proud.