Beavers Headgear
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Completely take your point. However, none of them treated the jilted club with as much disregard and disrespect as DCE did. His manager and himself were disgraceful throughout that whole process. Wasn't that him and Orr who tipped the media off about a meeting at Cronulla? Didn't DCE smirk and completely refuse to guarantee he was going to the Titans right up until the last minute of the deadline then backflip? That's all the memories I have.
I don't watch a lot of Manly but stands to reason a halfback on $1m could cop plenty for not being on less than Immortal form every week, even with a bog average side around him. Part of the territory, and the fact he appears to be a class A merkin and has a prickly relationship with the media doesn't help.
The Cows aren't in the Sydney market, they're never going to wear criticism like Manly or another Sydney based team will. You're 100% right but their climate is different, media can't go hard on them over there because they have a more intimate relationship with the players/club, whereas Sydney media can go hard as they want with the knowledge they won't lose access.
Completely agree that the Titans thing wasn't a good look, and glad that it made the NRL tidy up that process a lot more. The Cronulla tip off may have been the work of his manager, not sure
The media relationship changed instantly around that time, when he was at the beach and carrying his infant daughter back to the car with reporters and cameras in his face. Fair enough if he was on his own but can understand the feelings he would have had with his child subjected to it
The class A merkin bit, I can't go along with, simply because I have met the guy a couple of times and seen him interact with others and he is absolutely first class in that regard, I can't say that for all of them that I've been around but behind Brent Kite and George Rose he would be right up there among the best
May be a bit rose coloured with him but can only go off my own experiences, rather than what the media lead people into
To try and come back on topic, Foran is on a mill a year and hasn't produced anything since 2014, but gets a bit of a free pass.
Will we ever see Foran play well again ? Sadly I think that ship has sailed, the way he left Manly was pretty dirty, but he gave plenty on the park over the first bit of his career so I was hoping he would find something again but can't see it happening
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