If the club doesn't release it someone else will. Players asking for a trade is ugly. There is no way around that.
Just sucks that we all have heard the same crap before in terms of making tough decisions and going through a rebuild to become competitive again. It's been 5 years since the first rebuild and we are no better off. Only difference is Black, Brown, Patfull, etc have been replaced by Beams, Christensen, Freeman, Taylor, etc. We have a good foundation to build on, but if we lose Redden, Aish, Leuy and Adcock this season clearly we have the right to ask the club what is the root problem hear.
Leppa is getting a reputation these days for having difficult conversations with players that they don't want to hear, and may in fact not be a soft touch. Sounds like the opposite actually.You couldn't get past those first five words, huh. Once a troll, always a troll I suppose. Boy who cried 'no troll', etc. I will live with my misdeeds.
Anyway, I was/am genuinely curious about the Leppo/Bucks thing.
The thing is, (and I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record here) the Bulldogs didn't lose 19 and 24 year olds. Perhaps this is a little pessimistic of me, but I can't help but wonder if we're all just looking for glimmers of hope in a situation devoid of them. I do see some direction in where the club is trying to take the list. Unfortunately, it just looks like a rebuild on a rebuild. Permanent revolution didn't work so well, and I doubt permanent rebuild would either. Perhaps this time it will be different, the club has a plan. But we probably said that last time too.
LIONS skipper Tom Rockliff can’t see any way for the club to retain disgruntled star Jack Redden, who is reportedly at odds with coach Justin Leppitsch.
Rockliff said he had spoken “at length” with close friend and former flatmate Redden about his request for a trade but doubted he could change his mate’s mind.
He said confirmation of the long-rumoured the Redden trade could force Brisbane to re-evaluate how it operated certain aspects of the football club.
He said he would “swap salaries” to keep Redden at the Gabba.
“Obviously, it’s disappointing. Reddo is my best mate so it does make it hard when he says that (he wants to be traded),’’ Rockliff said today.
“Obviously we have to look at the way we do things around the footy club.
“If he is upset obviously we need to improve in some areas of out footy club to make sure that we can retain them and keep players happy.
“It was pretty hard to swallow. It wasn’t easy for him to make that decision either.
“He’s given it a long period of thought and came to that decision.
“Our main focus is to try and keep him . . . but he seems pretty set on it at the moment but we’ll see how we go.
“I don’t think there’s anything I can do, to be honest, to change his mind.
“His issues are with other things within the footy club.”
Rockliff said rumours of a player exodus from the Gabba was a worry.
“That’s probably the concern at the moment, yeah,’’ he said.
“ I think when one (player) goes you are always worried. There’s speculation about a lot of players.
“We don’t know until they come and tell us.
“I think most of the group is pretty happy and can see the future and where we are heading. There might be the odd couple that can’t.’’
Buckley appears to me as being intense rather than massively confrontational but some people interpret that intensity as confrontational. Don't think he's a bad coach or anything like that. He's just hell bent on being successful and will push the players for success. That's not a bad thing or a criticism. Most coaches are confrontations at times. If you're not you're not doing your job. Peppa is similar but is also a bit of a joker along the way. Buckleys humour and ability to break tension is still there, just pretty dry in style.
