Baz, it's time to leave Manly – and no, you don't deserve a cent

[Frogz]

I can't believe Barrett would turn up tomorrow and put the players in an awkward position - he has always acted with their best interests at heart, hasn't he?

Has Dean Ritchie lost his inside contact...

 

[The Wheel]

So says woodsie. And apparently he was doing all of this because he wants the best for the club and players and just wanted better facilities. I call bull****

Agree, he is either being badly advised or pretty selfish or maybe both

 

[dowdz]

Did he not quit? Piss off already

 

[redlineg]

I can't believe Barrett would turn up tomorrow and put the players in an awkward position - he has always acted with their best interests at heart, hasn't he?

Yeah - Nah
He is acting in the best interest of himself!
Quite simple really, there has been no agreement between lawyers, Barrett hasn't turned up all week, if he continues not to turn up, he has effectively 'abandoned his employment' and would not be entitled to anything.
I still reckon **** the lawyers and get Max Krillich to fix the crapper so we can flush this turd once and for all.
Can Max give Scott Mates rates!

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

I can't believe Barrett would turn up tomorrow and put the players in an awkward position - he has always acted with their best interests at heart, hasn't he?

We can probably put the "he's doing it all for the players" line to one side now.
I think what many people, myself included, find grating is that - whatever his contract may or may not say - he expects to be paid for doing nothing. But other than what they obviously believe is the principle of the thing, I can't see why it's such a big deal to the Penns. They've effectively been paying Barrett to do nothing for the last three years. A few more months won't make much of a difference.

 

[bones]

I can see Des quitting if this isn't sorted. He was told it was sorted and it appears it isn't.

With the 12 months notice, Manly would still get one season out of him at least.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

I can't believe Barrett would turn up tomorrow and put the players in an awkward position - he has always acted with their best interests at heart, hasn't he?

Especially Jackson Hastings.

Someone should tell Barrett that the Northern Beaches would like its oxygen back.

Right now!

 

[MadMarcus]

Cricket Australia will be after a High performance Manager in the coming weeks, maybe thats what he is waiting for.

Barrett only knows how to manage mediocre performances. The only way he could be a high performance manager is if he was stoned.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Still reckon we should take him.......
'Fishing'.

I’ll take him if you like!!

Be an interesting conversation wouldn’t it?

 

[Nice Beaver]

If its true (which like 99% of newspaper talk I don't) then he is truly making himself unemployable in the league world.

 

[CoreyWaddellSuperFan]

Barrett only knows how to manage mediocre performances. .

At Cricket Australia he'd only have mediocre performances to manage, if that.

 

[Harvies elbow]

I’ll take him if you like!!

Be an interesting conversation wouldn’t it?

The fishing I have in mind wouldn't involve a lot of conversation.
Well not on his part anyway...

 

[Peter C]

Agree .... however I remember a case being argued a few years back when an employee (in IT coincidentally) was put on garden leave for 18 months .... he successfully argued that a period that long out of the industry, loop, and professional network would have a considerable negative impact on his career and future employment prospects ..... the company ended up settling an out of court payout .....

I'm with you though ... being paid to play golf, surf and drink coffee would have satisfied my lazy arrse ....

Funny thing is, a large proportion of the population is paid to do just that, play golf, drink coffee , surf etc, it's called welfare

 

[joeboy]

It's easy to cast the villain retrospectively. Our club has taken great steps forward recently, but we shouldn't underestimate their role in this whole situation .

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

At Cricket Australia he'd only have mediocre performances to manage, if that.

Is he the new Pat Howard, ready to take the Australian team to a new level, i.e. the Earth’s core?

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

It's easy to cast the villain retrospectively. Our club has taken great steps forward recently, but we shouldn't underestimate their role in this whole situation .

True. Very true. Just ask Toovey.

 

[Class of 96]

Is he the new Pat Howard, ready to take the Australian team to a new level, i.e. the Earth’s core?

Bit like the ARU president. “We are not performing as we would like, but we have a clear vision of our values and culture, and blah blah blah blah blah”. A big steaming turd of clichés. Felt like jumping on the phone and saying “no sh^t Sherlock!”

 

[Class of 96]

Loved what Warnie said the other day about our diabolical cricket team “all this talk of elite honesty and other crap, well what a load of verbal diarrhoea. It’s really very simple. Bat better, bowl better, field better”.

 

[joeboy]

True. Very true. Just ask Toovey.

Great, let's talk about Toovey again.

 

[Walter Perolta]

I can see Des quitting if this isn't sorted. He was told it was sorted and it appears it isn't.

No chance hes as excited as us about being back look at all the coaching staff hes recruited