Not surprising. All his comments last year were directed at the Players in a kick up the ass manner (if you remember, he let RP off the hook entirely).
Either he doesn't think our squad is up to it, or he doesn't think they try hard enough (possible both).
Tony Rea made some comment recently about having players that bought into the London thing. Maybe CG looked at our limited resources, our awful crowds and management of our club and didn't buy into it (who could blame him?).
Guess the final straw would be getting dropped from the Captaincy (must be hard when you are the player that is targetted every week and voted best player by the opposition).
I know he's on good money but somehow, it feels like we didn't deserve him.
Can't see him playing in the NRL though...maybe there's plans for a coaching role (and i guess he would be great to have as a back-up).