Free Agent # 6: Joe Daniher (part 1)

[Hird05]

True. Just have to feel sorry for the pea brains that make them.

 

[madrigal]

Hi Joe we love you

If Joe has decided to go, I hope he doesn't read your insensitive comment, the guilt could be very bad for his mental health.

 

[Doss]

If Joe has decided to go, I hope he doesn't read your insensitive comment, the guilt could be very bad for his mental health.

Pull your head in.

 

[dougyboy]

Not sure about that that. Yesterday they wrote about Ben Reid on the move, yet same day it's announced he's signed a one year contract.

Social media and the growth of the trade period has created this sort of monster where all these reporters are scrambling to be the first. I think some just go on hunches that may be from people connected with the club or even in the club, but not close enough to the people who actually work in trading & recruiting.

I think a lot of BigFooty posters would make excellent Journalists

 

[DonsRule]

Premiership Magpie empathises with Joe Daniher’s situation

"I wouldn’t hold it against him if he decided he wanted a fresh start."

www.sen.com.au

Premiership Magpie empathises with Daniher’s situation
By SEN 20 hours ago

Luke Ball knows how difficult it is changing clubs having sought a move from St Kilda to Collingwood at the end of 2009.
The premiership Magpie therefore empathises with Joe Daniher’s situation amid links of a move to Sydney after two injury-plagued seasons at Essendon.


“I was a player who set out in their career only contemplating being a one club player,” Ball told *This Is Your Sporting Life - For Tobin Brothers Funerals, celebrating lives.
“When you start you map out your own journey … and clearly things change. He (Daniher) has had a really tough couple of years.
“I’ve been able to empathise with him a little bit, especially with the injuries that he’s had to deal with, and they’re frustrating and debilitating.
“Hopefully now he’s coming out of it, so I completely understand that he just wants to get himself back out on the park; run around and be free to enjoy footy.”



Ball joined the Bombers in a manager of people performance role in 2018 and remains hopeful Daniher will be at Tullamarine in 2020.

He also understands if the 2017 All-Australian wants a fresh start at a new cub.

“He’s such a highly respected and liked figure within the club,” Ball said.

“Having been through that and having gone through the process of changing teams - I wouldn’t hold it against him if he decided he wanted a fresh start.

“But we’re obviously really hopeful that he stays. He’s got family links to the club … he’s still got a lot of great footy left ahead of him.”

Daniher is contracted at Essendon for next year.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

at the end of the day joe is human.

if he needs to get out of essendon to get his head right then that's what he needs to do.

though in saying that Sydney cant hide behind this as some kind of trade leverage, they need to pay us what he is worth to us.

 

[ghostdog]

Sydney is a shit place to live.

 

[CBombers17]

Sydney is a s**t place to live.

Richestan Sydney is a pretty rocking suburb though!

 

[ghostdog]

at the end of the day joe is human.

if he needs to get out of essendon to get his head right then that's what he needs to do.

though in saying that Sydney cant hide behind this as some kind of trade leverage, they need to pay us what he is worth to us.

That article feels like the club's way of saying 'we're okay if you want a trade. Don't feel bad.'

 

[ghostdog]

Richestan Sydney is a pretty rocking suburb though!

I don't know what you mean. I'd live in Newtown or Parra. That's pretty much it. Or Kogarah.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Sydney is a s**t place to live.

i live in sydney

agree with your statement.

 

[Beerfish]

you can't buy mental health

Exactly. Just ask Tom Boyd and Travis Cloke.

 

[DonsRule]

you can't buy mental health

If it is an issue and the Luke Ball article probably hints at that, Maybe the move would be best for both as much as I don't want to lose Joey. Could live in Sydney and have no one that knows who he is. Would make it easier to deal with I'd imagine

 

[tandino]

I couldn't begin to understand his apparent mental health issues. I just question the theory that the answer is a move to Sydney.

He's not Joe Number 42 player on the list. His profile will follow him up there. And they have fans and media and photographers and fill in the blank, up there as well.

 

[Vander18]

Exactly. Just ask Tom Boyd and Travis Cloke.

Not that it really matters but Tom
Boyd said recently that mental health had very little to do with his walking away from footy. Bigger issue was that he simply wasn’t that into it.

 

[Beerfish]

Not that it really matters but Tom
Boyd said recently that mental health had very little to do with his walking away from footy. Bigger issue was that he simply wasn’t that into it.

Fair enough. I think this is a telling quote though.

"I think the more money I've gotten, and particularly because of the way my contract was shaped, I think the thing that I realised was that it didn't matter how much money I got, it wasn't making me any happier," he said.

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[DapperJong]

I couldn't begin to understand his apparent mental health issues. I just question the theory that the answer is a move to Sydney.

He's not Joe Number 42 player on the list. His profile will follow him up there. And they have fans and media and photographers and fill in the blank, up there as well.

Exactly. He will instantly become a celebrity up here as that weight falls on about 3 players.

 

[Pweter]

That article feels like the club's way of saying 'we're okay if you want a trade. Don't feel bad.'

Which is the right thing to do. If it's a circuit breaker that he really needs in order to move forwards we can't stand in the way.

We'll obviously throw everything at him to try and keep him, and work damn hard to get the best trade we can out of it, but if it's what he needs then it'll be done. Fingers crossed he doesn't need it.

 

[CBombers17]

I don't know what you mean. I'd live in Newtown or Parra. That's pretty much it. Or Kogarah.

Ah sorry - Richestan is a reference to Chris Hedges (Amercian Journalist) description of where .02% of Americans live. The ones with the money

Probably not a well known enough source to use - sadly!

Edit; I agree on Parramatta btw. We often stay there when in Sydney. Earthy with everything you need. Reminds me a bit if Carlton for some reason - could be the Melbourne Uni multicultural influence perhaps.

 

[doug85]

Fair enough. I think this is a telling quote though.

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I’ve read somewhere that once you’re earning 75k, additional pay rises don’t make you happier. Obviously this is generalised. If you had 4 kids and lived in Sydney I reckon you’d be chuffed with every cent over 75k.

 

[faible]

I’ve read somewhere that once you’re earning 75k, additional pay rises don’t make you happier. Obviously this is generalised. If you had 4 kids and lived in Sydney I reckon you’d be chuffed with every cent over 75k.

There’s a lot of caveats to go with that figure, it’s the general rule that once you’re earning above a certain capacity to provide a standard of living each extra dollar doesn’t add a lot of additional happiness due to you basically acclimatising to the new ‘new’ as the standard.

 

[madrigal]

I’ve read somewhere that once you’re earning 75k, additional pay rises don’t make you happier. Obviously this is generalised. If you had 4 kids and lived in Sydney I reckon you’d be chuffed with every cent over 75k.

Set-point theory assumes people have a happiness set point that is relatively fixed and happiness will fluctuate due to new circumstance but the person will adapt back to the set point.

 

[doug85]

There’s a lot of caveats to go with that figure, it’s the general rule that once you’re earning above a certain capacity to provide a standard of living each extra dollar doesn’t add a lot of additional happiness due to you basically acclimatising to the new ‘new’ as the standard.

Obviously this is generalised.

 

[Foxx]

Whatever makes you happy. The grass isn't always greener on the other side though. Sometimes you make a move, and when the dust settles, you regret it. I learnt that.
Don't make decisions on emotion. He is better off getting out there next year first.

 

[madrigal]

Just to plant a cautionary flag about focusing too narrowly on happiness, Huxley's Brave new world is a good counter, a lot of people find meaning in life through struggle and meaning is a better way to orient oneself than the search of happiness which is transitory. In addition when dealing with mental health issues and depression searching for happiness can leave a person lost and hopeless, especially for anhedonics. The mental landscape in Sydney will probably look much the same.