no no no. he was at a funeral in dawrin (the club knew).

He was told to take the 6 oclock flight.

instead, he had a few beers and it wasnt on his mind, so he caught the later flight, and he broke the team rules.

so he is playing for sandy this week and is out of the leader ship group!

If someone close to me died I'd probably have more than a couple of drinks with friends/family to honour their life.

Davey did the right thing by being honest to his teammates and accepting the penatly on the chin.

We only know part of what happened. We dont know if he was intoxicated or missed a flight and also "had a few drinks".

In today's Herald (yes take it with a grain of salt) it was reported that Davey admitted having a few drinks because he was upset, which the club weren't all too fussed about. It was the fact he missed his flight which meant he missed/was late for his physio appointment back in Melbourne.

(Agree with the rest of the post though)

In my opinion it punishes the team more than the individual.

Maybe for a week, but it can only help the team in the long term!

It's done, so no point worrying about rightly or wrongly. That said, I could understand the social pressures he would be under back up north with family, friends etc.

Does anyone know if he'll play in the magoos this week? If so, is that a good idea? He doesn't need to prove his form or get injured with Sandy.

Will they just rest him?

"We bought 11 new players into the club last season, we'll probably bring six or seven new players into the club after the next national draft, and we've got to make sure we've got the right culture, the right values, and are bringing our players through in the right way." CC

This quote makes me happy!

45hotgod, that quote is a bringer of much joy to us all, I reckon.

but perhaps the suggestion is that if we were in a position to play finals we wouldnt be having this sort of problems with offfield behaviour and culture?

hopefully they are attempting to instill a new culture around the place that will see the players professional in their approach on and off the field. and hopefully this will have a flow on effect for on field results.

good point deanox, i hope the club sticks to its guns with this policy, at least our playing group and coaching staff can show some professionalism. lets face it we needed to show it. ta

If the quote a few posts back is accurate, I'm not sure how you get that.

"Given where we're at as a Club, the suspension was appropriate"

ie. Given we're building a new team, with new Coach, and are bottom of the ladder...

That's how I read it, anyway.

what i was saying is that to some extent playing and winning finals is as much about talent as it is about doing the right things off field, and playing for each other.

obviously you can muck up off field and still play well on field, but in these cases, the teams still play for each other and have the 'team mentality' on field. missing sessions and jepodising your performance on the match day isnt a team thing, and would affect our chances of actually playing finals.

ie instilling the right culture will o a long way to helping us make and win finals.

Put for Deanox's case: West Coast