Matt Rendell was right

[Sweetback]

Garlett is irrelevant.

Taking a kid from a small country town into a big city will be challenging irrespective of race.

We lost an Irish kid a few years back for exactly the same reason.

The Irish kids are a pretty good comparison for culture shock and missing home.

 

[Bell Ringer]

Rendall was not right to suggest the solution to that problem might be an explicitly racist recruiting policy.

Pretty sure Rendell was playing the Devil's advocate, suggesting what could happen in the future if the issue wasn't rectified, not providing his personal opinion on whether or not he would draft indigenous kids.

 

[Seedsfan]

EFA. Between overseeing this Rendell fiasco and sacking him, and then the Tippet saga, Trigg nearly stuffed this club. So glad he's gone.

More to the point so happy he is at carlton

 

[WCE_phil]

The non Indigenous player who comes from a troubled home community with a lot of other things going on in his life doesn't even get picked up because more than likely he doesn't have the talent to make the risk reward worth it.

Nice racist comment there yourself. So white people who come from troubled families are now more than likely less talented than indigenous australians.

 

[Old navy]

It can work the other way as well. Look at Chris Yarran he came from a family that had issues with a father in the big house.
He grew up in housing commission lived in the same street as Nic Nat and Walters in a less then ideal area.
Jeff Garlett even spent time growing up living out if a car.
So it can also almost give these players a stronger resolve to make it.

 

[The_Reaper]

It can work the other way as well. Look at Chris Yarran he came from a family that had issues with a father in the big house.
He grew up in housing commission lived in the same street as Nic Nat and Walters in a less then ideal area.
Jeff Garlett even spent time growing up living out if a car.
So it can also almost give these players a stronger resolve to make it.

They're also from Perth

 

[Old navy]

They're also from Perth

Yes I know. IMO leaving WA can be a good thing for some cases.

 

[northmac]

A lot of the time when these young lads get delisted from clubs we here it from the media who are so far off the mark. My mates young bloke played 17 AFL games for a club and when he got delisted the football journalist based all their articles on rumours. The club was quite happy to go with this as it ment the players issues weren't bandied around the media which also would have put further pressure on the club and their input into players welfare. The less the media knew the more crap they actually came up with. It was quite bizarre but also very frustrating at the time.