hull smallears wrote:
Jordan would have left IMO if Carney came through family loyalty. This probably sat uncomfortably with some of the other players. It would have done with me. Then imagine something happens, things like this get dragged up and all of a sudden you have a dressing room in disharmony.
If this is actually what happened, I can personally do nothing but applaud the club for being open and honest with the players and asking their opinion
Agree. Whilst is disappointing a player of Carney's calibre won't be joining us, if this is the process the club took I'm in full backing of it.
We had a similar situation at my amateur club where the coaches asked us whether we'd be happy with a player joining us. 99% of the time a new player would just turn up training and be welcomed into the fold with no questions asked, but the player in question we knew of, he played for us a few years earlier, left under a cloud and pi$$ed a lot of people off.
Before anyone says it, yes, there's a huge difference between professional and amateur sport, but I think the point still stands regarding keeping team spirit and morale. In a sport like rugby league where your putting your bodies on the line for each other, where communication across the line is vital, your living in each others pockets etc, a rift in the team can be catastrophic.
