For mine, I tend to look at the reasons for leaving. As previously posted, I know the personal circumstances surrounding players such as Jarman and Burgyone and say fair enough. To me, they left their clubs for reasons far more important than football or money.
I look at the Kennedy situation where he was struggling to win a permanent place in the team and say fair enough. Okay, in time he would have paved a permanent spot with the Hawks, but I can understand him leaving. I understand the Lake situation where he'd given a great deal of service to lowly ranked club and dearly wanted to taste on field success, even though it meant a pay cut.
I don't know all the details about Ablett and Judd, but from the outside looking in, the motivation seemed to be money. Certainly Judd maintains he wanted to come home, but he wasn't going to do that unless he scored big $$$$ in the deal. Then he goes through the charade of pretending to shop himself around, even visiting clubs such as Melbourne. What in hell was that all about when the deal with Carlton had already been done months beforehand. I've learnt not to respect anything he says. Can't work the Ablett one out, there was a story he had family in Brisbane, but he appears to just enjoy being a big fish in a small pond.
Franklin's decision to leave just reeked of the mentality, "Stuff everyone else, it's all about me". What did he have to achieve by going to Sydney? Premierships and team success? He could have continued to do that at Hawthorn. Money? Well, yes, he is getting more at the Swans, but he was going to continue earning very good money at Hawthorn. It appears he was motivated more by the life style than any sound football decision. In the interim, he did his former club no favours at all, not allowing us a chance to strike a deal with Sydney. He let us down. We don't need people who will let the club down, not matter how much they can play the game.
If I was a Sydney supporter I'd be a little wary of the fact that Franklin didn't leave to play for the Swans, he left to live in Sydney. He will never bleed for the red and white jumper. Franklin doesn't understand the words loyalty and sacrifice. In a Grand Final, where there are more desperate opposition who will give everything for the jumper running straight him, he will side step. No way he will take one for the team, he doesn't have it in him.
I look at the Kennedy situation where he was struggling to win a permanent place in the team and say fair enough. Okay, in time he would have paved a permanent spot with the Hawks, but I can understand him leaving. I understand the Lake situation where he'd given a great deal of service to lowly ranked club and dearly wanted to taste on field success, even though it meant a pay cut.
I don't know all the details about Ablett and Judd, but from the outside looking in, the motivation seemed to be money. Certainly Judd maintains he wanted to come home, but he wasn't going to do that unless he scored big $$$$ in the deal. Then he goes through the charade of pretending to shop himself around, even visiting clubs such as Melbourne. What in hell was that all about when the deal with Carlton had already been done months beforehand. I've learnt not to respect anything he says. Can't work the Ablett one out, there was a story he had family in Brisbane, but he appears to just enjoy being a big fish in a small pond.
Franklin's decision to leave just reeked of the mentality, "Stuff everyone else, it's all about me". What did he have to achieve by going to Sydney? Premierships and team success? He could have continued to do that at Hawthorn. Money? Well, yes, he is getting more at the Swans, but he was going to continue earning very good money at Hawthorn. It appears he was motivated more by the life style than any sound football decision. In the interim, he did his former club no favours at all, not allowing us a chance to strike a deal with Sydney. He let us down. We don't need people who will let the club down, not matter how much they can play the game.
If I was a Sydney supporter I'd be a little wary of the fact that Franklin didn't leave to play for the Swans, he left to live in Sydney. He will never bleed for the red and white jumper. Franklin doesn't understand the words loyalty and sacrifice. In a Grand Final, where there are more desperate opposition who will give everything for the jumper running straight him, he will side step. No way he will take one for the team, he doesn't have it in him.
