Youse are all fecking Kents
Kent on Saturday: Paul Gallen should be sacked as Sharks captain
SO much for Cronulla’s new “no dickhead” policy, over before it began. Next!
In July this year, days after the club sacked Todd Carney, Sharks chairman Damian Keogh confirmed the problems at the club.
Carney, he said, “was a good guy but [had] no sense of responsibility”.
“There have been serious cracks in our culture this year with some of our players’ attitudes and dedication,” he added.
He was absolute in his will to turn it around.
“The Swans have a ‘no dickhead’ policy. I think that’s what we need to follow,” he said.
Keogh clearly cares for the club.
Damian Keogh faces a battle to implement his “no dickheads” policy.
He also seemed to understand that recognising a problem and fixing a problem were different so, come September, he was thinking about hiring Leading Teams to overhaul the club’s culture.
Leading Teams was the company that drove the rebirth of the Sydney Swans, implementing the “Bloods” culture that led to the Swans ending their 69-year premiership drought.
It preaches virtues that are player-driven, heavily focused on individual accountability and leadership development.
The Swans are now the model playing group in the NRL.
As Cronulla found out this week, though, it’s one thing to say you have a “no dickhead” policy and altogether different to actually implement the “no dickhead” policy.
Within hours of news breaking that chief executive Steve Noyce was made redundant Sharks captain Paul Gallen, holidaying in Hawaii, tweeted: “Steve Noice (sic) actually cared about players from cronulla’s feelings. Couldn’t say that about any other c... from Nrl.”
Gallen is Cronulla’s captain. Their leader. The big kahuna.
He also has this other little matter of being currently banned from the game after admitting to taking banned substances.
He didn’t have to admit that, even though he did take the drugs, and his feelings are hurt. That he received a tremendously light penalty hasn’t eased his pain, either. Clearly, he remains bitter.
Just on that, I can’t understand how he can be bitter at some, like the NRL, for what happened, yet at the same time so willing to warmly accept or forgive others, but that’s for another time.
Point is, Cronulla has a choice.
There’s a chip there Gallen needs to lose.
Paul Gallen has drawn criticism for his recent social media outburst.
Look at the other leaders in our game.
Cameron Smith, the gold standard, had two premierships stripped from him after Melbourne was caught cheating the salary cap. Not once has he whinged, let alone slurred an entire administration like Gallen. Billy Slater the same.
If Gallen was a politician he would be sacked. If he was a schoolteacher he’d be on leave without pay and then sacked.
But he is employed in an industry that is results based, and given he is better than average at achieving good results, such behaviour is often tolerated.
At places where there is no “no dickhead” policy, anyway.
Keogh stated the club’s intent to dream big. So Cronulla has a choice now. The club or the individual?
As far as I’m concerned, Gallen should be sacked as Sharks captain and Michael Ennis appointed. He should at least be heavily fined.
How can this guy be put up as the leader of the club anymore?
Sooner or later, this game has to decide what it stands for. Does it aspire, or does it remain shackled to the lowest level.
Is it better than this? Or is the game at its current level, where players can urinate in their own mouths and their comrades greatest reaction was “he didn’t hurt anyone” and where NSW captain’s can publicly call the game administration “c ...”?
Please, somebody tell me, I’d like to know.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...s-sharks-captain/story-fnp0lyn3-1227101382483
