Ferguson goes full Carney

I don’t particularly care anymore as the Canberra Raiders are no-longer going to be part of the finals yet again. I have just watched the Raiders directing traffic toward their own try-line, this time its the Warriors piling on points.
Stop blaming Ferguson, Carney, Dugan and whoever else and start looking at the problem, the administration is the problem – put them under the lens!
I have followed the Raider since they joined the competition and the problem starts and finishes there.
Don’t blame the players, they all leave Canberra to be superstars with other clubs time to wake-up and look around.

The bloke is a dickhead. Spoilt little knob that has been told over and over how good he is. But he’s not. Seriously, what has he done? He played rep footy in a time when NSW can’t win a thing. He was s*** in Origin. He got his chance because everyone else was s***ter, not because he is good. Simple errors and not focussed and doesnt respect the ball. But being told its all good.
Then gets off the field, errors, not focussed, no respect. Now another club comes along and will say its all good.
Blake Ferguson will be again left thinking, I must be good, no need to change, I am the s***. No Blake.
Just s***.

thatsnotme said :

Heavs said :

They should just play him at Mounties for the rest of his contract. If he doesn’t want to turn up to training or rehab or whatever then fine him or dock his wages. If he plays up outside the club (arrests etc) then fine him the maximum allowed and get the NRL to suspend him.

But don’t cave and reward good behaviour by flicking him. These guys are acting up because it is a way to get themselves to another club. He was happy to sign the contract, hold him to it.

I’d had a similar thought too. The problem here is that he’s got a release clause in his contract that was triggered when the coach got sacked. God knows why he doesn’t just activate the clause if he wants out so badly.

If nothing else, I hope the Raiders and other clubs start to think a lot harder before accepting these type of clauses in contracts. They’re a joke, especially these ‘If the coach goes I can go too’ clauses.

It’s wishful thinking, but I’d love to see the next clause in this clown’s contract be something along the lines of ‘if we have to sack you because you’re acting like a dickhead, you’re not allowed to join another club until your contract with us is over’.

My mail is the clause is in his new contract (begins on Nov 1) not his current contract. So he needs to play the bad boy to get out now.

Back in the day people played for the love of the game and if they made some bux then good but the main driver was the love of the game, the mateship and the devotion to the team they played for. Seeing the oldtimers sniffing around their old clubs helping out etc bears witness to this.
Now that the game is driven by money out goes loyalty. So the game is now professional, therefore all players should act professional. In any profession if you dont meet the code of conduct you are out – sometimes out of the profession depending on what that profession is. Every profession will always have their bad eggs but key minimising the risk is recruiting the right guys in the first place. Fair enough the demographic to draw from is a testosterone driven, fun loving alcohol drinking age group and that is what makes it difficult, but is all the more reason to put more effort into recruiting processes. These could include background checks and psychological profiling similar to ‘the forces’ that also draws from a similar demographic. Then you wont probably need a no alcohol policy in the contract. An overarching code of conduct would cover that – drink on the job and your sacked.
So if you want your club to have less issues then get professional yourselves on how you sign these boys up.
This might help getting a bunch of loyal, professional acting boys on board. Might not win all the time but team spirit and stability will be maintained and you know that all the boys will turn up each week not pissed and fight for their country (team).

Its ok to dream! Sheesh!

johnboy said :

A no alcohol clause would quickly lead to a no player situation.

Sorry Johnboy, but I don’t agree. There are heaps more potential players out there, compared to the number of professional positions available. If the current batch of professional players don’t want to sign to a ‘no alcohol’ clause, I suspect there would be many more who would be happy to take their places.

In respect to the no alcohol policy – I agree that they should be banned from drinking during the season and if they do, it needs to be minor drinkage at club events only. For heavens sake, what is the problem with drinking water. The majority of women who choose to have children find abstinence from alcohol pretty easy – for over a year in most cases. Compare that to the footy season and it makes any of these extraordinarily privileged young men who can’t go without a drink for the good of his chosen career look like utter tossers.

Rebos said :

As an aside, any decent recruiting process should help to filter out the potential bad eggs. Perhaps the Raiders recruitment policy needs to focus on more that just player ability.

After all their high profile players with alcohol problems over the years, who’ve caused untold damage to the club and the team, it is amazing that their standard contract lacks a “no alcohol” clause. At the very minimum, when they decided to boot Dugan and retain Ferguson, he should have been contractually required to abstain from alcohol completely.

Heavs said :

They should just play him at Mounties for the rest of his contract. If he doesn’t want to turn up to training or rehab or whatever then fine him or dock his wages. If he plays up outside the club (arrests etc) then fine him the maximum allowed and get the NRL to suspend him.

But don’t cave and reward good behaviour by flicking him. These guys are acting up because it is a way to get themselves to another club. He was happy to sign the contract, hold him to it.

I’d had a similar thought too. The problem here is that he’s got a release clause in his contract that was triggered when the coach got sacked. God knows why he doesn’t just activate the clause if he wants out so badly.

If nothing else, I hope the Raiders and other clubs start to think a lot harder before accepting these type of clauses in contracts. They’re a joke, especially these ‘If the coach goes I can go too’ clauses.

It’s wishful thinking, but I’d love to see the next clause in this clown’s contract be something along the lines of ‘if we have to sack you because you’re acting like a dickhead, you’re not allowed to join another club until your contract with us is over’.

white trash

I agree these blokes are fools.

But fairs fair – if you’re going to bag the Raiders fools, JB, at least do the honourable thing and do the same with the Brumbies. Your silence on the Brumbies fools in O’Connor recently was piss weak.