Im amazed by the emotion in all this. This is business in reality isnt it ?
I earn my living with clients and bank platforms and there is one saying that always rings true. The only people who ever get emotional about money in a deal are the brokers. The big players dont get upset they have patience and get the deal placed in its right time.
SBW is a business venture, Think of him as an Asset, thats all it is or all he is in this picture. Thats how the bulldogs are shaping him in this and I bet my money that is how they were treating him before. Read between the lines.
When a player is treated like an asset he starts to see himself as an asset before being a player in the game he loves. Its not until you ship off elsewhere and you have geniune time to reflect that you can see the truth that was blinded by the glaring sydney lights. That is what turns a boy into a man. Failure and pain.
Im 30 years old and I still make mistakes, the guy was a kid in a shark eat Shark business world. Im sure no matter how you look it, if the Warriors, Tigers, Knights or whoever signed him they will milk and expolit him for every intentional business opportunity possible, given the price is right.
Dont think for one moment if a club can run a smoother cleaner business they wont ditch your favorite player for $ reward. Happens more than you may like to think. There is rarely loyality involved.
You the fan are also commercial item also. A bond to be cashed into at the maturity date.
Having said that I dont think the Warriors are the most onto it sophisticated club out there, just look at their player profiles on their website. They are still 2009 profiles 1 week out from the new season.
I know where you're coming from mate, it is a business, and you raise some valid points.
Personally, where we disagree is that in a business sense, I think of $BW as more of a liability than an asset. I'm sure the Warriors are thinking high risk high cost=high return...I think high risk can=big loss. Bad loss.
There is absolutely no doubting his talent on a League field. None at all (but Union remains to be seen Lol). Assuming he's legit, and loyal, and stays...that talent is only available when he's on field. He's spent so much time off you would not get much bang for your buck.
In addition to that, I'm thinking in a business sense purely as much as an emotional one. Sure, from an emotional point of view I am disgusted with his antics-IMO he let his Club down, his captain&teammates...he let his fans, many of them kids down. He let his previous manager (I remember reading a feature in Sunday News where the wife of the manager was devastated by him-They treated him like a son and he just dropped them to join the mundine crowd)down. His Kiwi league mates and coach down. He let himself down by his pathetic whiney video about his lot in life he sent back from France.
Now from a business point of view, I don't see him as a Warrior. I don't trust his commitment for the massive capital required to invest in him-would he be true to his word? Could you trust him?
I also don't feel comfortable with his ability to stay injury free. Think of the money Tates on, and the on field we have got out of him. Not enough. That situation is magnified to a crazy level with $BW.
And finally-And most importantly-As a business, you need to continue as a profit making organisation. Would $BW help there? I don't believe so. I great player does not necessarily blend in and make a great team. Would other players there be as polarised as the fans? Would there be resentment for the money he's on, or his past antics and treatment of the code? Would you lose as many bums on seats in protest as you would gain in interest? This topic is a good example of how emotional and fired up/polarised fans are over $BW. The PR would be as bad as good. And if he hated the media spotlight before...jeez, that's nothing to what he'll get now.
How would $BW explain his happiness to return to the NRL, and the 'cattle drive' he so hated? His apology when he returned for his boxing jaunt did nothing for me, it was clearly faked and rehearsed.
IMO the young fellow is utterly ****ed in his career unless you can get him away from his 'Bro' Mundine.
All this is still speculation anyway. Has anyone actually asked $BW what he wants, or is all this just a way to get more money out of the frog club?:?
