Not sure if it is 'culture' Matebe.....without knowing for sure, I'd guess all of them would have loved to have had the chance to travel a few suburbs away and train & play at a WA club.
It wasn't as if these blokes were hidden away, or somewhere we couldn't see them. Can't cry over spilt milk - but theres been plenty of noise about Kelly & Pickett well before they got picked up. Especially on DL.
And yep, WC missed them but their requirement for skillfull players are a bit less than ours over the past several years.
No. Its not culture...it was the 'gameplan'.
Did the club (RoLy) want free wheeling, 'play the game as they saw it' plays like Kelly, Picket, Stack??....and Barlow, whilst we are at it??.
No....and, if anything, that is the greatest blight upon 'The RoLy Years', where the dour, accountable, lock down, effort based role player was preferred over talented free wheelers.
Best example : RoLy stuck with T Bone Sheriden (25) rather than explore the Kellys & the Picketts, (26 &27).
Blind Freddy could see who had talent....but RoLy stuck with effort & a role player.
Haselby is dead right....those responsible for such calls have no place in the J-Lo era....and lets hope J-Lo releases a the restraints on the current list and allows some freedom.