The only reason I wont fully lay blame on Snake jogging and looking disinterested is that this was endemic of most of the team.
He should have the chance to try and come back.
@KaZa made some good points about us handling this generation poorly and I don't disagree, I just think the issue is more complex that that. We had a massive generation gap between the players, we have aging players that were loyal, that kept a lot at the club, but at some stage you have to have valid changeover. Many of the other clubs had regular rotation of younger talent coming through that made the change less obvious or at least less stark, we just have a lot of guys at once who were coming to the end of their career and the impact of them staying weighs as heavy as the impact of them leaving.
We need to look to the turbos to start the new era now and build them with loyalty. We thought Nate Myles would have been the Ben Kennedy of this era to the new set of younger guys coming through. Unfortunately that didnt happen and he has not had the same impact. However there aren't many BK's on the market, in fact I would say there are none, and very few that have been one club players. If we could get another BK we will have the same culture bread back in.
It isn't all the club a lot of this is situation and perspective. We lacked a single unified leadership of the club, from coach to players and above coach to players. We needed a Dessie to usher us through this period, however we had Toovey who was a different beast to Des and got shafted and now we have a young guy, this is just the wrong time to be having someone like Barrett in the club.
Dessie coming back will help us rebuild, and now that the 20's dont exist anymore we should see him able to have better control that makes sense for the club, realistically it was his ideas and ignoring the 20's that started a lot of the riffs, but in the end he was right