Yep.
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No dude. That is a legitimate reaction. I however am willing to forgive if he admits he f**ked up late last year.
My point was that assuming a constant over an infinite span of time is a very big assumption.
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And that could well be the case.
Typical bullshit gossip journalism. The deadline will be in the contract that both player and club agreed to. They don't get to arbitrarily impose a deadline on the player, as exciting and dramatic as that might be for the typical league loving f**kwit.
They've given him until the end of May, you f**ken merkin!! There's nothing arbitrary about that!!
Why no other NRL clubs out there want to buy up Jarryd Hayne Inc
PAUL KENT, NRL360, The Daily Telegraph
April 25, 2017 6:11pm
Since returning to the NRL last year, where he gives every indication the game is too small for him, Hayne has brick by brick began to dismantle that reputation.
It reached saturation point on Tuesday when news broke Hayne’s representatives had quietly nudged up alongside some Parramatta officials to gauge their interest in a return.
The Titans have given him a deadline until the end of May. And of all clubs the Eels know what Hayne can bring.
He was the difference for Gold Coast, 15th on the ladder, to beat premiers Cronulla last week.
The Eels’ faithful still sit back with glazed eyes when they recall his run in 2009 where, on the back of six-straight man of the match performances, he took the Eels all the way to the grand final.
Anywhere you cared to look you could not find a sustained performance such as Hayne’s that year. Maybe Thurston in 2015.
Yet the interest in Hayne at Parramatta is muted.
The Eels’ interest is so minimal they have not even bothered to look how much room is left in their salary cap where they have spent carefully.
The wariness around Jarryd Hayne is at odds with his reputation as a franchise player.
And it raises the question, is the franchise over?
No other club has registered a blip of interest in Hayne, despite an overcooked player market and Hayne’s availability.
Parramatta people have a long memory of Hayne.
For all their memories of Hayne on a six-week stretch of man of the match awards, taking the Eels all the way to the 2009 grand final, insiders remember the dog day afternoons watching Hayne wander around the field, apparently disinterested.
Nobody could ever figure out a way to get him going.
Put a rocket under him, give him a cuddle, none seemed to consistently motivate him. What worked one Sunday failed to work the next.
Who could figure him out?
It built tremendous frustration at Parramatta. There were games where teammates, picking up that he was off, urged Hayne to get involved to no avail. They soon got deflated.
Maybe the worst thing to ever happen to Hayne’s career was Brian Smith getting sacked.
Smith was head coach when Hayne got into grade. Smith refused to play Hayne because he had an attitude problem.
He was young and dominating age group football and Smith knew he was good enough and would one day take Parramatta to grand heights but he also knew it had all come very easily and Hayne needed to learn the ways of top-flight football.
And that included learning to fight back and overcome disappointment.
A little more time in the lower grades would help, not hinder.
Smith got sacked, though, and Jason Taylor came in as interim coach and made the mistake of all short-term coaches, which is to coach for short-term success.
Taylor knew Hayne’s talent and how integral to Parramatta’s success it was even then. He picked him.
Hayne came, Taylor went, and then Michael Hagan, Daniel Anderson, Steve Kearney, Brad Arthur, Ricky Stuart all came through the Eels and all struggled with the enigma in No 1.
It is happening again on the Gold Coast now.
The importance of brand, which the rest of us call reputation, has been forgotten as rumour and whispers seep out of the Gold Coast about Hayne’s coachability.
Hayne has failed to care for his reputation. The Titans are in a test of patience.
Neil Henry is again proving himself a quality coach after stints at North Queensland and Canberra, able to get an injury-depleted team up week after week in the country’s toughest competition.
Hayne should be the star. Yet Henry’s problem is Hayne’s problem.
As Henry is discovering, coaching Hayne against the rest of the Titans is like the difference between cats and dogs.
Dogs can be trained as pets. Cats merely choose to live alongside you.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...c/news-story/027aa12da462bcc45e684e16f2636d71
