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He didn't do too well last season but he will be fired up and motivated to prove his doubters wrong.
Let's do our job and give him our full support to prove himself and take the Force to where we know it can be.
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tic, without having a chip on my shoulder (I never wanted Genia, had enough of high priced recruits since Gits, we need to create a production line and grow a team, not buy it), Genia AGREED to a contract,he shook hands on it, its called a "verbal agreement". Sure its not actually SIGNING it, but its still going back on his word, which is where GIGS20 is coming from.
In some parts, your word is your bond.
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The long sobs of autumn's violins wound my heart with a monotonous languor
in the old days a verbal agreement was as enforcable as a written one
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In the old days, he would have got sorted out with 22mm steel
I miss the good ole days
I struggle with poofs having day spas, tweeting, hair bands, planking, "building" instead of performing, "we'll learn from that belting", "the group", general gayness
dead set
Controversy corner
The way I hear it, the eastern states are saying it doesn't matter what you say it's what you sign that's important......I get that, when will you get that it think that mentality is a blight on our game, our history and our culture.
I yearn for a time, apparently long ago, when a bloke could be relied upon when he said he'd do something.
I can agree to disagree with you about it, but Genia has no honor, he plays for a team where honor is in short supply and it appears the entire state (if what you say is correct) is happy to sell their honor out as long as they get the good players.
Im actually happy he's over there, you guys seem to appreciate him!
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TOC the "chip on the shoulder" is QLD's thing... im still seeing comments in regards to the Force "poaching" the reds best players in 2006 on GnGR and foxsports. I think we're entitled to have a whinge every nownagain dont you?
Rocket science it certainly isn't - it is far to simplistic to simply say "genia never signed a contract" . Written Contracts don't just fall out of corn flakes boxes- they are drawn up by lawyers after much discussion and agreement between parties. The fact that a contract was being prepared indicates discussion and agreement between parties was reached, thus the refusal to sign was indeed a reneging action. That said, although he went back on his word, he was legally within his rights to change his mind prior to signing on the dotted line. Good on him, I say, for having the courage (and good sense) to do this- for he clearly would not have been happy in WA.
Now that Foley has been appointed coach, I pray that he is able to see out his contract. I think the building of the Force into a .... er.... Force... is a longer term project and I will be happy to see a slow but steady improvement, with (hopefully) lots of local players earning a shot at immortality.
And therein lies my real concern. We get another token foreign player, for good or bad we get a new coach, all the attention turns again to what players we should chase, but never anywhere a plan for how we are going to develop local players. Seven years on now and we are still waving goodbye to key players spouting lines about missing their mum. For all we have actually achieved since we started would we be any further behind if, once we had our original team, we had decided to spend all our money on an accelerated development program for local players and people prepared to commit themselves to a move here for an opportunity (a la Chucky)? Instead we chased short-term success, used and supplied the Shute Shield and built next to nothing - where will we realistically be seven years from now?
And now, once again, we have handed our team (and now apparently all our rugby structures) over to an ARU insider. Is he going to dedicate himself to improving the local comp and prioritise local players? Will he be spending money on re-establishing an academy program, over and above the extended player squad. Will he be creating an additional extended training squad, maybe running intensive development programs for players with specialist coaching, etc? Or will he just send players to and take players from the Shute Shield, like he has always done?
Because a time coming when this competition will split into haves and have nots....prossibly as soon as 2016. It is the inevitable end game for the conference system; the competition will start domestically then split for the international section. Those that go forward in the first few years will accumulate the players and sponsors, the rest will be nothing more than development teams unable to retain talent. I doubt you'd find anyone over East that would say it is "in the best interests of rugby" for WA to be taking up one of the international spots and we won't, unless everyone here is committed to the belief that we should. And at the moment, we are built exactly like a team that takes and develops talent but can't retain it.