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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3103274, member: 9326"] Taking a comment, removing the context entirely, then using it as a punchline to broadly sum up 12 months of playing performance and attitude, is the kind of garbage journalism and spin that we all claim to hate and deride in the game today, but that's exactly what happened here. Yes, he had a dreadful season. Yes, he in fact played so ineptly at times that it would be reasonable to conclude that he wasn't really trying or that his heart wasn't in it. For his performances, he only has himself to blame. However, when every single first person source from the players and staff around him indicated he was absolutely trying his best and that it absolutely mattered to him, to then take a single line out of a much broader quote, which was entirely reasonable in the context of the discussion at the time, and use that as a punch line to explain his poor performances, is just a dreadful misuse of his words. The stupidest part about the people who've carried this on is that it's now been dragged so far from the original context and point he was making at the time that we've now basically forgotten all about what he was actually saying, which is shameful because it was actually an important message and one that a number of players and fans would do well to remember in this day and age. One day when a more naive or impressionable 19 year old player is getting attacked on his social media or harassed in the streets and decides to take his own life, we're going to wish the actual words and advice from Darius Boyd had been taken seriously, rather than used so hopelessly out of context as an opportunity to drive an agenda and mock Darius Boyd for playing shit house last season. [/QUOTE]

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