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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 3095379, member: 8988"] He's doing what's best for himself and his family. What do you expect him to do? Roll over and quietly die? Footballers are people too and that 400,000 might be the last he sees as a professional athlete. Maybe it would be nicer for the supporters to pretend player disloyalty is a one way streak, but it isn't. If the clubs could get away with it they would toss any player/official that was no longer optimum for their success away (and they did). Things have changed. Clubs now have responsibility to at least try and honour their commitments, however awkward. It doesnt mean it is all in the players favour. Shibasaki is now a Newcastle knight. He will have to move himself and his family and work with a whole new set of employers. As Kahu said, it's a business, but the players are still people. If you want him to go like gillet?. Why should he? Unlike gillet he has very little set up, having moved a couple of thousand miles and is in a position where a guaranteed income for a year will see himself established once more. Of course the club could offer to pay him off, but they seem happy enough to have him there. If you notice there is a lot of dissatisfaction when older players realise they are little more than meat to the grinder of professional sport. When they are young they are elevated from their more humble beginnings and given a cult status among fans only to find the "love" was very shallow. If they put their bodies on the line and it fails, only the honour of the coach and club officials stand in the way of a return to humdrudgery of every day life, and fending for themselves. A player like Kahu will have had time to prepare himself somewhat (unlike Palasia), but it's still a shock. They are human beings after all, not robots. Remember Thaiday? Read the articles and comments from 2015 until his retirement. He went from being one of the all time great broncos to someone that struggled to compete with players who would never achieve anywhere near what he did (Mago, saviello etc.) There was a time when Kahn was thought of in the same way as staggs. He actually possibly had more potential. He had a strong work ethic, did all the right things and looked to be karmichaels successor at fullback. Injury and time put paid to that. It did the same to gillet. One day it will do so to Haas and fifita. If they seem a little melancholy because their horizons shrank with the passage of time I'll forgive them too. But perhaps looking and learning from Kahu will give them the inspiration to make every moment of their brief careers their best. If the likes of Milford and Oates could pick up on that idea too, perhaps they will find the way back to the players they were. [/QUOTE]

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