Boekhorst was dealing with a serious gambling problem (like many of his teammates - more shithouse standards with regard to player welfare from us).
One thing that has become obvious with SOS is that he makes his mind up on players very early, which worries me.
I seriously feel like an absolute gun could slide to a Carlton pick on draft night and SOS will still stick with the guy he had originally earmarked due to “having put the work in”.
SPS, O’Brien - I feel the decision was made no matter what unfolded before it.
He also seems to favour “former first round picks” who have done SFA yet Garlett aside, doesn’t seem overly interested in offering chances to blokes doing well in the VFL/SANFL/WAFL.
The same potentially applies with Gowers/Boekhorst - SOS stamped the papers early and that was that.
Jones is probably the exception but SOS’ hand was forced there more than anything.
Have been a fan of how he’s done things generally but the inflexible approach is perhaps cause for some concern (seriously if this Max King thing is true then that is an absolute joke).
For God's sake give it a rest.
Gowers was let go coz he didn't work hard enough and he said so himself.
Ask any of the track watchers here and they said the same thing the whole time he was at the club. Read the old training and VFL threads.
And Boekhurst was crap and did nothing in 2 years. 1 chase down tackle and 3 average games before he was gone. That's it for 2 whole years.
Don't make up bullshit mate.
Just be happy for Gowers that he had the sense to pull his finger out and make his career actually last more than 5 minutes (again, he said this himself).
If Boekhurst was so good and hard done by then where is he now?
We were good before. We are shit now. We will be good again.
That's the ups and downs of football.
Get over it.