Quote Gotcha="Gotcha"He was the only Leeds player not sent home from the squad. He left, as already pointed out, the rest were sent home at the end. '"
Lol. Just lol.
Quote Gotcha="Gotcha"You are still showing a clear position of not living in the real world. I am not sure you actually know what the problem was, and are probably convincing yourself of your own version. '"
According to Hardaker, the problem was he went out for some drinks after not being selected for an England game. He thought himself to then be outside the camp and so the "in-camp" no drinking rule didn't apply to him. McNamara thought it did.
In the "real world" I would have managed to refrain from drinking for the whole tournament. A time-period of what? A month? 6 weeks? I manage that quite easily anyway never mind without the added focus of representing my country in the biggest competition in my chosen career.
Quote Gotcha="Gotcha"Just to be clear here, from what he said, Zak never complained or had any issue with Leeds position on fining him and laying down the law as they did. What he had an issue with was the involvement of McDermott in increasing this by stopping him from having the season break, and making him cancel his holiday, whilst at the same time a couple of players showed behaviour that was far worse than Zak's situation, and were not taken to task on it. '"
Which players and what behaviour? Were they representing their country at the time? If not then it's not the same situation is it?
Again, a young lad who's done something wrong shouldn't be getting annoyed at the club punishing him. A £2.5k fine and a missed holiday isn't the end of the world.
Quote Gotcha="Gotcha"In all fairness to McDermott here, he has learnt a lot from his mistakes of last year, and changed completely this with things. Possibly he may also have built bridges with Zak also since Christmas, and would do things differently now given the chance. And maybe they can get Zak back round a table to try and get a new contract. I personally desperately hope for that, but I doubt despite his desire to play for Leeds, that he will put that grudge aside. It would be Leeds and it's fans loss though.'"
Ahhh. The backtracking begins. Now you've successfully covered all bases here haven't you.
If he holds a grudge then he can go, I don't care how good he is. If as I suspect, he doesn't hold a grudge at all and is relishing the opportunity to show his commitment, that he just made a silly mistake and that he's better than that, then fantastic and long may he stay at Leeds.
