drebin wrote:Geez big phil surely you can workout that the club is trying to limit the damage and not give journos or others the full details. Drinking did play some part in what occured Friday night so that is as good a deflective an excuse you will get. Considering 1 player Coulter had walked out during the week and was not named in either Seniors or Ressies and the other 2 were out injured you would hardly think drinking on a Friday night was big news!
What Capt Cordial and "others" have posted re the "list" is right on the money and was the catalyst for what occured with the 3 players.
I can understand why the club wouldn't want the "real" story to come out Drebin so i guess the point I tried to make, without really making it, was that Warren Partland's article today was pretty pointless apart from highlighting the fact that 3 players were going to be sacked. And like mentioned a few times, that is not completely accurate either with Josh Coulter leaving earlier in the week. I guess it would just be easier on all involved, including members, supporters and the current playing list, if the club just came out and made a statement as to EXACTLY what went on the REAL reason behind thier decisions made.
I mean if they tried to gloss it over with a story of the players drinking the night before, it's not really all that plausable, because as mentioned as well, none of the players were not even going to play in either the league or reserves side. Just get it all out in the open, deal with it as best as they can and let the players focus their energies on the game ahead this week against South Adelaide. I really think that North may just get done by the Panthers this week, especially if all the off field rumblings don't have the door well and truly shut on them before the weekend.
I don't blame some of the Roosters fans for the comments posted on here about their club, it would be really dissapointed to have this kind of thing happen half way through a season that they have struggled to recapture the form of last year. Will be really interesting to see how the rest of the season unfolds for North, I'm of the opinion that they are still a forced to be reckoned with, even with all the crap going on behind the scenes, they still have a few quality players in their line up and on their day, are good enough to beat most sides in the comp.
Big Phil...
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:55 am
with a large number of club officials and players trying to found out exactly what is going on because apparently half the Board had no clue of the events of last week! 