Paul Osborne and his close buddies Tahu & Poore should smoke the peace pipe and come to some heart rendering agreement between the players to reduce their contract values so that not only Inu stays, but that others also stay on as well. This club needs to make some serious decisions real fast between being a true tribe taking care of each other or just being a business without the soul of a tribe.
Life is a team effort as is victory, peace, freedom, abundance, etc, etc....
All the right signs of a strong tribe were there late last year as revealed in Grothe & Co willing to reduce their contracts to create cap space for Kevin Kingston who desperately wanted to stay. Hindmarsh was/is also willing to reduce his salary, along with some other players, to keep valuable members of the team.
This club spirit is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than just fictional $$$$$.
This worship of fictional $$$$$ just for the sake of surviving in a dead-corpse system of commerce, just rips the heart out of a clan/tribe/family/community/relationship as can be clearly evidenced by what is still happening to this great club (or maybe I should say Once Great Club).
There is more than enough fictional $$$$$ going around to create a roof over the heads of all the players families, have food on all their tables, have plenty of room to create an organic garden, have clean fresh drinking water and be set up with all this for life.
Situations like this one with Inu forced to leave as with Kingston, Galuvao, Lowrie, etc, etc, who all wanted to stay but all had to leave because of the fictional $$$$$$ and its ties to the cap, has me want to walk away permanently from Rugby League. I create strong bonds with players who create real bonds with the Eels tribe and I get all my buzz out of players who live to play for their tribe. Seeing Inu go, a player who wants to stay with his tribe, who is willing to take a pay cut to maintain the close bonds with his tribe, cuts deeply into my bonds with this Eels tribe too. Paul Osborne and other directors of this club and those players caught up in the excessive greed of fictional $$$$$$$ are destroying this tribe I have loved so passionately since 1962/63.
Spill some commercial blood for each other boys, build some true spirit to forge a great future for this club deprived of NRL championships since 1986.
It is the spirit of the club that makes the club one that keeps it supporters. Without the spirit of the tribe, the Eels will never win anything and the great tragedy will be that it was fictional $$$$$$$$ that caused all the problems.
A great forest is made up of many different trees that all have their place in the forest. A great tribe or club is made up of many unique team players and the worth of those team players cannot be measured in $$$$$$$$.
It appears (and please prove me wrong) that Paul Osborne (and others) have lost the plot because he is putting business and cronyism before team spirit. With this attitude the club will not be successful and will lose its fans. In its place will be more of the soulless garbage dished up by so called Eels "supporters" who dished up terrible language and horrific abuse upon the players during and after last Monday nights game against the Raiders.
The dramas now unfolding are the fruits of decisions made for business (and greed) rather than for the spirit of the tribe.
