Quote: Bull Mania "Latest Statement from Beaumont.'"
God damn those players for accepting someone offering them lots of money and actually expecting to receive it! What a set of money grabbers. Nobody else would ever do that except greedy RL players. And that's probably money from Derek's own pocket, just in case there was a paragraph he didn't mention that in.
I have a lot of sympathy for Leigh's plight (admittedly most of my sympathy is for the fans), but that statement is just "blame everyone but me, I'm the saint". There's plenty of blame to go around, and no doubt some of the people in the statement should accept their portion, but there's blame on the likes of Beaumont, Cunningham and the coaching staff too who chose those players and offered them that money.
You can blame players for underperforming, but you can't blame them for accepting a large contract and expecting to be paid it. And guilt tripping them into giving it up is very poor form IMO.