Is loyalty dead?

[TheDalek079]

Well, Anthony Minichiello will play his 300th game tonight, making the Roosters the only club to have had 2 players play 300 first grade games for them.

With this in mind, is loyalty dead? At the Roosters, SKD, Mitch Pearce, Nuuausala, Mitch Aubusson are all current 1 club players with 150+ games for the club.

Melbourne look to have Slater, Smith and Cronk be 1 clubers too, with all going to get to 300 (or close to it) before they retire. Warriors have Manu and Mannering who'll end as one club icons.

Sure we may have lots of mid season transfers, but there are plenty of examples of players/clubs being loyal too.

Is loyalty dead?

 

[Son of Minto]

Yes

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[Tom Shines]

Who cares in 2014?

 

[El Diablo]

when was it alive?

 

[Noname36]

No.

 

[magpie4ever]

Well, Anthony Minichiello will play his 300th game tonight, making the Roosters the only club to have had 2 players play 300 first grade games for them.

With this in mind, is loyalty dead? At the Roosters, SKD, Mitch Pearce, Nuuausala, Mitch Aubusson are all current 1 club players with 150+ games for the club.

Melbourne look to have Slater, Smith and Cronk be 1 clubers too, with all going to get to 300 (or close to it) before they retire. Warriors have Manu and Mannering who'll end as one club icons.

Sure we may have lots of mid season transfers, but there are plenty of examples of players/clubs being loyal too.

Is loyalty dead?[/QUOTE]

What is his first name, I just can't place him?

 

[Red Bear]

It's a romantic notion that shouldn't get in the way of business, from a player or clubs point of view

As a fan, love a one club player, great to see. And certainly there should be incentives to clubs to be able to keep players they develop there.

But a player can't always expect loyalty in return from a club, because it's been seen over and over to not happen. I don't think as fan we should necessarily expect loyalty from the players either. It's a short, 10 year career if you're lucky, the players should strive to earn as much as possible in the time, given the sacrifices that go with a league career, both from the toll it takes on your body and the time you spend playing footy when otherwise you would be working towards a longer term career.

Loyalty is nice, but these players are professionals, and should be focussed on getting what is best for them out of their careers and contracts, not what is best for their club.

 

[Matchball]

Nah. Loyalty to money is still alive.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Jarryd Hayne is around 170 odd games for the Eels,i d say he is more loyal than all the merkins you mentioned since he has stuck with the worst club in the NRL and not done the runner

 

[Son of Minto]

Jarryd Hayne is around 170 odd games for the Eels,i d say he is more loyal than all the merkins you mentioned since he has stuck with the worst club in the NRL and not done the runner

Thats not loyalty, its stupidity. Should leave ASAP.

 

[DC_fan]

Jarryd Hayne is around 170 odd games for the Eels,i d say he is more loyal than all the merkins you mentioned since he has stuck with the worst club in the NRL and not done the runner

His career is not over, so give him a chance.

 

[BunniesMan]

Well we've got Sutton who is a chance at 300 games.

And the likes of Reynolds, Keary and Walker should be 300 game players if everything goes well in terms of cap management and injuries.

His career is not over, so give him a chance.

It does seem crazy that a player of his talent has not been a part of finals footy in the last 5 seasons.

 

[rabbitohs95]

I wouldn't say it's dead. I'd just say that loyalty is a very rare thing nowadays, the sport is growing as a professional business and obviously players and clubs need to do what is best for them.

 

[user_nat]

Parker is 2 or 3 off 300, being our second also.

 

[MaxPower]

If loyalty is dead, you can blame the much lauded salary cap.

 

[Pete Cash]

Loyalty both ways is kind of dead but it has to be. Clubs have to be ruthless sometimes. Jarrod Croker just signed a four year deal with the raiders. He has played 140 games so far so all things being equal he will be at about 230 games the next time his contract comes up. He will be 28 so it's probably likely he will play 300 games plus with the raiders. (obviously lots can happen in the mean time)

 

[Jason Maher]

Who was the other player to play 300 for the Roosters?

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

People have been having this debate forever....

In 1907, people would have been sitting at a bar saying "these players want money for playing the game?? loyalty its dead!!"

And in 2050, people will look back on 2014 with a wistful nostalgia of the good old days, "...when the a handshake was as good as a contract. Those were the days."

 

[Pete Cash]

Who was the other player to play 300 for the Roosters?

Luke ricketson iirc.

 

[BunniesMan]

Yeh Ricko. Mini mentioned he wished the grand final could have been #301 for him so he could finish on the same as Ricko.