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July 13, 2006
Nick Davis You Are A Fuckwit!!!
Now I'm not normally one to rip players like this, but I really think Nick Davis needs to have his head read after his outburst yesterday after being informed that he would be facing the Wagga Tigers this weekend in Wagga and not the West Coast in Perth.
Now I can understand his point that his form over the past few weeks hasn't been as bad as certain other player in the team (hello Ryan O'Keefe if your reading this), but if the coaching staff make a decision to drop you from the senior side based upon not only your form, BUT your fitness then you should cop the decision on the chin and go back to the ACTAFL for the required period and prove yourself (didn't take a hack like Ben Mathews long now did it?).
What you certainly don't do however is do what poor old Nick has done and run to the newspapers and have a crying fit to anybody who'll listen because not only will it make you un-popular with your teammates (when rumors already have you un-popular with most of them), but make your battle back to the seniors that much harder because the coaches will be that much more pissed off. Also you leave the clubs image in tatters at a time when it least needs it. So thats why I was pissed off to read today's paper and find little Nicky crying about being blamed for the lose against Adelaide.
"So it was a major surprise that I wasn't playing against West Coast. Someone had to cop the blame for the Adelaide loss and I guess it was me. Roosy was blaming the players after the match and he's obviously singled me out."
Boo, fucking hoo I say.
Roos gave the reason that Nick was unfit and that with the Swans playing at Subiaco it would be better to leave him out to gain fitness in the twos while giving the quick and much fitter Simon Phillips a chance to prove himself on the bigger ground - Que another sook from Nicky boy;
"The dimensions of Subiaco were one, but the last time I played in Perth in the finals I kicked three goals and played pretty well."
So this gets all over the morning papers and what do you expect happens when Roos and the rest of the team finds out about it back in Perth?? Yep they aren't best pleased and when questioned about the comments Roosy let fly on Nick.
"I think Nick and I will have a pretty good discussion next week," Roos said.
"He's reasonably fortunate I am standing here in WA as we speak. It is very un-Sydney like and it is certainly something that we pride ourselves on, having a team that plays for each other and thinks about the team first. I haven't spoken to Davis since I read his refreshing comments this morning, and I don't plan to speak to him until next week. But we don't look too kindly at players that think of themselves before the team."
So there you have it we now have Roosy the relaxed one, the reserved one, the one who didn't even responed to the AFL CEO's comments regarding his game play last year in one comment, called Nick Davis - un-Sydney like and think of himself first before the team and even stated that Nick was lucky he was on the different side of the country.
Even Barry Hall got in on the act
Swans captain Barry Hall said Davis should follow the example of Mathews. "Nick was in a similar situation, and it is probably how a player goes about it tells a little bit about his character," Hall said. "Benny went back to the reserves, had a really solid couple of weeks, and he's back into the side."
Nick has dug his own grave here and now he can only do two things:
1. Admit to the media he was wrong to make the comments, go back to the ACTAFL for the next few weeks work his arse off and get back to peak form and fitness. Then once back in the senior prove to the coaching staff and the rest of the team that he is a worthwhile member of this club by producing more efforts like we have seen from him on nights like the Geelong Final or even the match against Freo a fortnight ago.
or
2. Keep believing he was hard done by and never get the respect of the coaching staff and players back. Stay in the ACTAFL for the rest of the year and then find himself being traded away to a club against his will.
Your decision Nick
Posted by robbieando at July 13, 2006 09:45 PM
Comments
Is the author of this blog so small minded that he must use language such as fuckwit to describe a player. Surely you can air your thoughts without such revolting and insulting language.
But then you go on to call Ben Mathews a hack. It would be interesting for you to share with us the details of your own playing career before you have the audicity to question the ability of a premiership player.
Big thumbs down for you robbieando.
Posted by: Stephen W at July 23, 2006 02:12 AM
Me Small Minded??? Sorry you must have the wrong person. The language that I used in the heading of this article came about after I decided to use what came to mind when I first read the article 2 weeks ago and yes, I at first though "gee Nick you are a fuckwit".
Now you and others might think that is extreme language to use on a blog but to be honest I'm not here to make friend's with what I write, just to express my opinions and my first opinion in this whole sorry saga was that Nick was a "fuckwit", pure and simple.
As for calling Ben Mathews a hack, well you'll find I'm not the only person on the internet forums to do so over the last few months and his form certainly doesn't prove otherwise. As for my playing ability, well I'm not going to lie. It take a hack to know a hack.
Posted by: theauthor at July 26, 2006 04:51 PM
Robbieando you are being a bit harsh on ND he is not a "Fukwit" just misunderstood.
Posted by: swantastic at August 6, 2006 09:27 AM
ben matthews a hack? i think the nick davis is a fuckwit
Posted by: terry at August 10, 2006 11:53 AM