conanu
Bencher
I think everyone would have been happy to see DCE finish his career at Manly, but only on a reasonable contract. Its clear to anyone that DCE is not the guy that takes unders for the team, he never has and never will. He believes he is worth more and that is his right. Nobody has an issue with him leaving, its the burn the clubs reputation to the ground on the way out to save his own reputation that everyone has a problem with. He is pig headed and bullish when it comes to negotiations, that is a proven fact through his connection to RLPA negotiations and his own 2015 contract. This is nothing new.I am just playing devils advocate here as many on this forum now seem to be siding with the club and the narrative of DCE being a money grabbing mercenary.
It seems to be working as blaming the club for screwing up the resigning a club legend is what we all should be concerned about.
None of us know the truth.
He just needs to shut up now and play footy. But that is hard when you are trying to agitate the club for an early release. Thats why he keeps attacking the club hierarchy even after they try to say all is good because he is goading them into moving him on to stop the disruption.But hopefully they won't, although he will get dirty if he needs to.