For me the problem in all of this has been the exclusion of USARL players from the Tomahawks. I have asked David Niu, through emails, for reasons these players were excluded. He has never replied to me. So I will ask some of Niu's supporters on this thread, especially YANTO and billy2 - Why were the USARL players excluded? And do you think there was justification for their exclusion. YANTO and billy2, the floor is yours.
No one likes the situation.
I'm sure Niu isn't dancing around a fire at mid-night and rejoicing at the turn of events.
It's pretty obvious he did what he did because he felt his team needed to keep control.
You can sit in judgement of him and his actions if that is your wont. I chose not to.
I've only ever had a five minute conversation with David, and he didn't come across as the Hitler clone many people seem to want to portrait him as. He came across as a guy who was absolutely passionate about starting League up in the US, and had put enormous amounts of his own time and money into doing that.
I know other people have followed him now, and are doing as much as he has done and is doing - and if we had 10 guys like David, Spinner and the guys working in Rhode Island this year, and they were all pulling together, the sky's the limit.
I'm not going to apportion blame to any of those guys. As i've said time after time, they all did what they thought was the right thing for the game - be it right or wrong.
Time to build a bridge and get the hell over it. The only way ahead is for a compromise that all sides can live with. The alternative entails various degrees of self destruction for the game - which many would say is the RL way - but i think we can be better than that.