Perhaps it says a lot about SA.
Good players from SA don't want to come home. Good players from outside SA don't want to stay.
By that logic you could say it says a lot about south Australian families vs families outside south Australia.
Good players from SA have shit families. Good players from outside SA have great families.
But seriously, if you listen to jake lever talk the other day when denying the Melbourne talks, everything he said was about him. Nothing about our club. He said things could be worse, he could have no one interested in him. Of course he said he's focused on finals, and this isn't a distraction blah blah blah.
HOT TIP: If the captain feels the need to pull you aside and talk to you about your contract heading in to a finals series when you're on top of the ladder then you and your contract ARE a distraction to the club whether you think it is or not.
Even in this day and age of free trade I think it takes a certain type of person to disregard the club that got them to the point they are at and give zero ****s about leaving the club with nothing.
Unfortunately for us the media love making it a feel good story about someone coming home for "family reasons" when someone wants to leave us to go home, yet if a player tries to leave Melbourne then they are money grubbing scum that can't play and want more than they are worth (remember what they all said about Eddie when he asked for 550k?) .
Crows need to get smarter. If players we want to keep won't sign with a year still to go on their contract we should trade them to the club of our choice for the best players we can get. Or we will continue to be the laughing stock of free trade.