Pearce Hanley - bags out young Lions players who wanted trade home.

[Blue and Gold Blood]

http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/af...former-teammates/story-fniv5zar-1226746874466

THE "Go Home Five" will not be missed at the Gabba.

The homesick Lions quintet of Billy Longer (St Kilda), Jared Polec (Port Adelaide), Sam Docherty (Carlton), Elliot Yeo (West Coast) and Patrick Karnezis (Collingwood) all returned to their home states in the last two days of AFL Trade period, effectively wiping out the 2010 and 2011 draft for Brisbane.


Lions stars Tom Rockliff and Pearce Hanley took to Twitter to fire parting shots at the departing players, with Hanley tagging his message #mummiesboysarehomenow.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Great stuff.

Tend to agree. Soft as shyte

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Yep agreed the home sickness thing is bullshit these days, more of a smokescreen for the real reason they want to leave.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Fantastic. Massive respect.

If just one bloke would say "this clubs s**t, and I want more money".

 

[madmug]

Yep agreed the home sickness thing is bullshit these days, more of a smokescreen for the real reason they want to leave.

Well rather than accuse them of being mummies boys, how about they look at the reasons why they dont want to stay at the Lions. Just abusing people who leave may just be a smokescreen for whatever problems may be at the heart of the players decision.

 

[Forward Press]

Although obviously I'm happy with Yeo being homesick, considering Hanley himself is not even in his own home country, he has every right to lay into them.

 

[timtamWB]

 

[Engimal]

Maybe I'm alone here but I think it's a very valid reason to request a trade.

 

[Kenno27]

Apparently there is a divide between established players and inexperienced ones.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

If I'd been fortunate enough to be drafted and was drafted to a Brisbane or Adelaide team I'd be out of that city quick smart when the chance arose.


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[galindez]

Maybe they all left because Pearce Hanley was cyberbullying them?

 

[BlackCaviar]

Pearce Hanley is right, hoping the karma bus arrives at their new homes

 

[DivideandMultiply]

One of the kids needs to counter it. Be honest. They are leaving because Brisbane at the moment is a rabble, unless there are unknown family/personal issues which is reasonable enough.

 

[Gavin Excell]

If I'd been fortunate enough to be drafted and was drafted to a Brisbane or Adelaide team I'd be out of that city quick smart when the chance arose.


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Sydney manages to attract playerss and Sydney is god awful place to live. Must be more than venue

 

[DivideandMultiply]

Fantastic. Massive respect.

If just one bloke would say "this clubs s**t, and I want more money".

Juddy was the man to do this, but he prefers to fly under the radar.

He could have said, look they offered me enough to set myself up for life and the wife wants to move to improver her career prospects.

 

[Jade]

Good on him.

This homesick crap is exactly that. If you don't want to be drafted into another state find another career, bunch of bloody princesses.

 

[L_W_P]

Young blokes have just as much right to choose where they play as anyone.

Brissy players/staff abusing people on Twitter is maybe part of the culture these kids want to get away from.

#stopsookingyaleprechaun

 

[Ess_don]

Probably just bitter because they didnt want to appear in "Hanley's Trivia"...

 

[BACCS]

If I'd been fortunate enough to be drafted and was drafted to a Brisbane or Adelaide team I'd be out of that city quick smart when the chance arose.


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Oh yeah, I'd love to move over to Perth....

 

[Black Diamond]

One of the kids needs to counter it. Be honest. They are leaving because Brisbane at the moment is a rabble, unless there are unknown family/personal issues which is reasonable enough.

I don't think all five are homesick, and if they are then it suggests there is an endemic problem at Brisbane which is incumbent on the club to fix.

 

[Lionheart182]

Well rather than accuse them of being mummies boys, how about they look at the reasons why they dont want to stay at the Lions. Just abusing people who leave may just be a smokescreen for whatever problems may be at the heart of the players decision.

The club will be without a doubt doing this over the coming months...didn't realise player welfare was in Hanleys job description. It's not like it was a member of the welfare staff or something.

 

[Walter Sobchak]

Personally, I'd walk out on any club not based in Sydney or Melbourne. Life's short, why spend it somewhere you don't want to be?

 

[Black Diamond]

I think homesickness is a valid reason for some. We're talking about 20-21 year olds here. Being good enough to be drafted and play a game with men doesn't automatically mean you are mature enough to deal with moving to another city.

 

[Balony_pony16]

Maybe they all left because Pearce Hanley was cyberbullying them?

lol...unfortunately you cant run away from cyber bullies

 

[Suma Magic]

Fair enough I reckon.

Rockliff sounds like a massive sook though, seems to always be having a whinge on twitter.