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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2995134, member: 8215"] Education without a doubt. Just to add too, from my experience playing (admittedly at the lowest of levels), I just can't deny that there is a certain demographic that the game appeals to, I mean in terms of the kinds of households, for want of a more accurate term. Put simply, there are a lot of kids that grow up knowing not much more than an aggressive, boofhead father figure, potty-mouth mother, and a 1950's attitude about blokes and sheilas. It just makes me think that the "education" needs to start at a younger level. I mean, it is (or should) already be happening in their school education, but maybe those younger footy clinics need to have an element of social respect, behaviour, and responsibility in there. I know I sound like a SJW here, but I look at a player like a 2016 Andrew Fifita, and I know I'm broad-brushing, but you don't act like he does unless you grow up with that sort of behaviour being the norm in his life. And I'm sure acting like a fuckwit from a young age was dismissed because he was most likely very talented, and just like the NRL, if he was booted from his team for bad behaviour, the team down the road will pick him up in a heartbeat. It just makes me think that responsibility needs to be imbedded in these players from a much younger age, not just when they're 15 / 16 / 18, when it's already ingrained. [/QUOTE]

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