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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 3193301, member: 1847"] I'm not sure I agree with this. Does Bird deserve any vitriol at all? From what I have observed in the media - and where else does one get the info - going back to Oct 2, the waters, or maybe the Wa(l)ters, are muddied. For example here : [URL]https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/nrl/jack-bird-is-expected-to-be-a-st-george-illawarra-player-as-early-as-friday/news-story/81973b8087b23514e74a2d89e66603e0[/URL] .... I read this: "Brisbane coach Kevin Walters told Bird that he would like him to stay and see out the final year of his contract, worth upwards of $950,000. Others told Bird that he was free to go because the Broncos needed to ease the strain on their salary cap. “Kevvie kept telling me he wanted me to stay,” Bird told The Weekend Australian. “I felt like if he wanted me to stay he could have stepped in. I love Kev. Me and Kev are good mates. There are no hard feelings. “I understand the reasons they want to get rid of me. I spoke to Kev last night. He rang me and asked if I was going. “I told Kev I understand from your point of view and the club’s point of view that you want to free up some (salary cap) space. “It is a business in the end. I was looking forward to playing for Kev this year but obviously they had different intentions. “They wanted to get rid of me — they might not tell me that — but I know they wanted to get rid of me.” So, as [USER=1899]@Big Pete[/USER] suggested earlier, Bird gets mixed messages, Walters wants him, the club doesn't. Seems to me it's a bit of a leap to infer from the media that Bird just wanted to up and go. So, from me, there is no vitriol, nor ill will towards Bird. We signed him, (at the same time as Milford and Boyd), and we punted him. I just don't get the anti-Bird vitriol on here [/QUOTE]

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