The majority of us here can't really say, only provide opinion and conjecture. However Sauce seems to think he was and it at least looks to have rubbed many in the squad the wrong way. Sauce has only ever been a stable character, not someone prone to going off or spitting the dummy.
They're all closer to this than any of us. Maybe they know something we don't.
Or maybe it's all about ego and the like.
I can't believe that Josh didn't realise his days were numbered. Hasn't he seen the young backs comming through, you know the ones than burn him in the beep test. Or are they so wrapped up in themselves that they can't see beyond the end of their nose.
It's no wonder some 'sports stars' struggle when there careers end. The lack of simple emotional maturity (in my opinion is mind boggling).
I don't think many of them (Josh include) know how the real world lives.
No wonder so many of them struggle when they enter the 'real world'
You get old....you get replaced. If your lucky you may get taken out for a meal......
You get sick, you get replaced. Generally not even taken out for lunch.
The world that some of these players live in is a place called fantasyland......it's not real.