Quote: Jake the Peg "radford's monday rant. I'm told it will become a HDM weekly column
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No surprise that we have non-professional players when our scouting system seems so bad, and we've had that for several years under different coaches and both Hetherington & now Pearson. Every year we get desperate and sign players up out of desperation, not checking what their off the field attitude is like and with several players (Dykes being the most prominent example) we don't seem to do much in terms of medicals either.
We knew that Liam Watts was disruptive of the field for example, but we still brought him in mid-season because we 'needed a prop' instead of checking that he was the type of professional we needed.
I appreciate that since SL's gone to 14 teams, and the Aussies & Kiwi's have stopped coming that there are less quality players to pick from...and that sometimes you have to gamble on a player, but we seem worst than most teams for bringing in players that are either not up to it, injured, like a drink or 10 or have off field issues.
in the last couple of years alone we've released the likes of Holdsworth, Seymour, O'Carroll, Johnson, McKinnon, Jamie Ellis, Lynch, Obst...its like a revolving door!