What do u mean by timing i reckon this was probably the best time to leave, when do you want him to leave in the middle of the season or even at the end of the season when the eels have a chance of making top 8. To me you just don't know whats it is like having a dream and he choose to chase his dream in the last minute when the season was over and knowing with the money the club will have left the club can buy themself a good players on the market. He had a dream he's chasing it, he had the guts to do something that not many people do he didn't want to leave his whole life saying to himself "what if i had done that". He's taking a gamble at his dreams knowing if he succeeds he would be an inspiration to those people who don't have the guts to chase their dreams and if he fails he knows he will be back at Parra playing the footy he used to play. When people get that into their heads they would start resting him also hence the reason he has hired camera crews to film him knowing if he succeeds this documentary can inspire kids and other people to start chasing their dreams.
By timing I mean when he told the club that he definitely won't be here in 2015. I'm not talking about what was best for Jarryd (and for the 200th time....I understand his wishes and genuinely wish him well in the NFL). But, given that he was in the process of getting out of an existing obligation, I believe it was incumbent upon him to try to do so in such a fashion as to cause the least disadvantage to the other party (i.e. the club). Deciding that he's going now made it much harder to plan for replacement in the 2015 squad.......that's it...nothing else.
If we were simply talking about the expiration of a contract....I'd largely agree with you. But we aren't, the club was bound to honour its contract to JH for 2015, so they can't sign a replacement(s) in the anticipation that he might decide his going elsewhere.
Nothing in any my posts refers in the slightest to any of the comments that JH has made since announcing his leaving, or any of the media circus stuff (I challenge you to find one instance). I don't care about that at all....just one issue....if you are going to seek a release from a contractual obligation...the onus is on you to try to minimise the damage to the other party. Call me old school if you like.
And again....I've never said i had any problem with him leaving other than the timing of the decision (i.e. when the club knew he was going.....until that point that can't do anything).
