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Message: [QUOTE="Locky’s Left Boot, post: 3152183, member: 9358"] Well it’s now Monday morning and after shedding a few tears and feeling genuinely hurt about the state of the club over the weekend, I at least have gathered a bit more of a perspective about the Fifita situation. It could be the defensive mechanism kicking in but the silver lining solely in terms of losing Fifita (not factoring in all the politics and bullshit that led to it and the possible domino effect) is that on reflection I seriously think Fifita lacks the character to be in the upper echelon of great forwards. This is based on a few things this year alone that should have been a red flag which are only obvious now in hindsight: - After the Bali fiasco, one of his first statements was ‘The club did what they had to do” there was no “I’m grateful for what they’ve done for me” there was no remorse or accepting of responsibility for putting himself in that situation no matter how minor the incident was - During negotiations his mum was quoted as saying “David wants to go where he can play ‘comfortable’ footy” This was quoted pretty much the same week The Titans conveniently threw $1.25 million at her son. This is also despite the fact that a short few months ago she was claiming David loved and owed the Broncos and would do right by them” - He had the nerve as a 20 year old forward who actually hadn’t won anything for the club, try to dictate a one year release to the Titans to bank over a million dollars and then come back when we can offer him more money. This is despite the fact that at $800k, he would still have been in the top 5 highest earning back rowers in the game Look he obviously is a good player, has flair, athleticism and power and can make good defenders look silly, but that’s all he has to his game at this stage of his career. He has not shown any glimpse of any ball playing ability or a late offload and no doubt thinks he is all that because he just runs through blokes so probably doesn’t think he needs to add anything else to his game. If that is his attitude, I can see this being another David Taylor situation where he is a luxury forward. If teams learn how to set up defensive structures to negate his game breaking ability and he doesn’t evolve his game, his career will nose dive. In saying all this I don’t think he could evolve his game in our system either at this current point in time so he is probably right to take the money but he is showing worrying signs that he will be one of those guys that has all the talent and not the smarts to become that next tier player. And when he is getting paid more than anyone in the game at any point in its history, why would he think he is to add to his game? It’s only human nature. In saying all of that though, it still hurts to lose someone of his X factor and as much of a shambles our club is in, one thing that could offset the pain would be to actually use the money wisely and acquire a player who would actually help make this team great again. I won’t hold my breath based on past results. Fifita winning games off his own back last season only masked the real problems in the club and has led to him getting this over inflated contract to begin with. [/QUOTE]

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