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Message: [QUOTE="TariqT, post: 3152201, member: 10485"] After having a couple of days to sit on this in Communist Victoria comrades, my tune hasn't changed. Don't put Dave on the park for the rest of the year. I'm not bitter, more disappointed and sad as a fan to lose such a fantastic player, and from what I have seen a likable young fella. The kind of player you like to see at your club, but that ship has sailed. I'm sick of the club behaving like a maternal grandfather (yes maternal) and worrying about everyone and how they react to the decisions we make. It's too much corporate/marketing rubbish. And it wreaks of desperation and not strength. Like a pathetic boyfriend that a demanding abusive girlfriend just plays with and walks all over knowing that the guy will never man up and she'll leave as soon as a more "attractive" proposition comes around. The irony is that attitude is not attractive at all. It shows weakness. Looking at this realistically there is no way in the world that Dave could reject $500g a year extra. Anyone who is thinking he should put "loyalty" before that, is placing too much importance on that. Look at what has happened to Bird, where is he after his next contract runs out? His career is potentially shot depending on his next season. It's not much money after 30 years when you don't have any other skills. But in all honesty, I expect Dave to regress if the Gold Coast doesn't get it together long term. Anyone knows that taking money over everything else brings with it other burdens. I've done it, I left a life behind a life of little money but a fantastic lifestyle, to take a job overseas (nothing like an extra $500g, but a lot for me at the time around $60g more a year) and those two years were miserable. Admittedly it wasn't just down the road, but what I dreamt of being attractive about OS turned out to be a bit of an illusion. It was a best-case scenario I had dreamt of. Those two years became a bit of a prison sentence I couldn't wait to get out of. I missed my friends, my lifestyle, even though the opportunity was great, and the only thing I had for motivation was the money. I'm glad I did it but if I had to do it again - no way. Look how many SUPER players the Gold Coast has taken on over the years at overs. They rarely succeed and when they do, by the time their contract is up, the club has gone back to before they were signed because it's hard to get more players to head there when you're cap is already used up. I don't expect much to change. Why? Because the Gold Coast has next to no culture. There's no sense of belonging to something. There's too much sprawl without a focal point of identity other than the beaches. This is coming from someone who loves the beach and its lifestyle, but almost to a person most people I know will say the Gold Coast is "boring". It has no heartbeat. Would you rather represent something with a soul or something that is constantly trying to reinvent itself with a makeover? Even Scotty Prince who was their Golden Child still has his heart with the Broncos. Coming back to the Broncos if only for one year, meant something huge to him. He loves the Broncos because it has a heartbeat. And for all the Broncos foley and failures this and the last few years, the club still has, soul. Also, remember Justin Hodges. The guy left and couldn't wait to come back. We showed him no love while he was away, but he came back to be one of the greatest club men. The thing that hurts most about this is that in our hearts, much like Hodgo, we feel like Fifita is a Bronco, because he is, so when he plays for the Titans it will not be his first love. He will not produce what he would have if he stated at the Broncos, but money talks and I can't fault him for a second, but I expect to see what we've seen before. [/QUOTE]

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