gazcoops wrote:Its not nice been singled out for something more than one person is doing, is it?
I wonder if Kingy feels the same, been singled out even tho most of the team are supposedly out on the mickey all the time.
I do agree the drinking culture in our club needs to be stamped out and players need to go for this to happen but it irritates me when a thread is started out praising a player, get turned into a witch hunt against the player.
When McRae spoke of the "cancer" at the club back in 2002, it doesn't take Magnus Pike to work out that an element of that was a drinking club.
At that time there was a certain aussie prop who was renowned for getting stuck into the beers, but he could at least back it up on the pitch. That individual was clearly a poor roll model for some of the younger players at the time.
Years have gone by, players have come and left, yet the one constant during this period now spanning back SEVEN years is a locally born player who some seem to think can do no wrong.
I find it amazing that this thread has lasted so long. As you put it started out praising a player. It should have been locked from the first post as it must be against the AUP to post delusion.
Anyone who thinks the individual concerned had a "good game" is clearly so blinkered in their devotion to this player that they cannot see it was nothing better than a decent / average game. That this average performance gains raptures speaks volumes about his other performances of late.
This individual WAS a GB player 8 years ago. At the time he had the guidance of a very good coach who could have put him in the GB front row for many a test match. The player however took the dumb option and thought looking at the bottom of a glass "to be one of the lads" was better.
When he decided to play (and by the way that hasn't happened consistently for years now) he can be a very effective player. But this hero status he has from some I just cannot buy. By getting into the states he sometimes does it will impact in training which ultimately impacts on games. In short I don't think he realises the privileged opportunity he has had in being a professional sports man. By not adopting a professional attitude to what is a short career, in my opinion, he has short changed the very fans that appear to think he can do no wrong.
Some people think I have something against Paul king as a person. I Don’t. I have no doubt he is a good man. But when there are calls for the coach’s head for being unprofessional yet some players are hero worshipped when not displaying a professional attitude, that baffles me.
