plugger66 wrote:Milton66 wrote:plugger66 wrote:ace wrote:There is a place for players who want to play footy - it is called the Amateurs.
There is a place for players who want to play a role in a successful football team - it is called the St Kilda Football Club.
Like a company of actors about to put on a play everyone has a role.
But then there is one actor in the company who doesn't like the play they have been rehearsing.
It doesn't allow him to show of his superior acting skills.
He doesn't like his character in the play, he doesn't have enough lines.
He doesn't like his lines, he wants to make up his own lines.
He gets told that this is the play, this is your character and these are your lines.
This self-centred actor wants to leave and join another company.
But then he finds that the other company has found another actor to play different role and so can't include him in their company.
The self-centred actors name is Luke Ball.
I agree. I cannot stand a person who may not get a game at club wanting to leave so he probably get a game at another club. What is he thinking.
Do you have anything intelligent to add to the thread other than putting people down because of their views?
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
Cannot see one word where i have put the poster down. You have really lost your sense of humour lately. Is there at least 2 people using the Milton66 sign in.
By the way is it Ok to put one of our star players down. Must be now that he may leave the club.
Get your facts straight...
I was and still am a big fan of Luke. Facts remain that he has not lived up to the hype, and he no doubt sees that he hasn't achieved his maximum potential.. for whatever reason.
Others within the team are moving beyond him, partly due to his body, and I suspect mostly due to the new game plan which is physically taxing and requires a different type of athleticism.
Luke is free to leave IMO, and good luck to him.
However, there are a few things that don't add up in his departure.. of which none of us really know.
Just as you cannot blast Luke for wanting to leave, you cannot point the finger at the club for not getting the trade done.
The fact that they rate him as the 5th onballer, doesn't make him a bad player... it just means there's 4 players now clearly ahead of him in our 22.
So for another team, he may well be a #1 mid.
The club has therefore every right to expect fair compensation for Luke inthe broader view of the football world, and not defined by where he stands in our pecking order.
By choosing to leave, then he has basically refuse the role designated by the club... as is his right.
But why should the club simply let him go with out fair compensation... let alone to a top 4 competitor in Collingwood, who by all accounts have courted him, and then refused to make the trade?
Let's not abuse Luke, but also, let's not blame the club for looking after its own interests.
And yes, I do have a sense of humour.
You're just not that funny. IMHO of course.
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Hotel De Los Muertos: Your room is ready... Care to step inside?