These guys get paid in a day, more than I make in a year I'd say, they get paid more than the likes of cops and doctors, or your soldiers, who's average pay I've found out there the other day, and it's a bit of a disgrace, espeically if they do what your lot are asking them to do. But anyway.
Giving someone that much money, they wont fight for it. They wont fight for anything.
They'll never be in the position where your heart is in your mouth when you know your loosing and the whole team knows, and there's a collective feeling that it can't end now, or at half time after running your socks off, and be called in and given the talk that we didn't fuckin work as hard as we did and as long as we did to loose now. We've our 9-5 to go to, they've the cushion of all that money, they've nothing to push them, for us it's pride, it's the passion to fight for it, to avoid the agony of loosing, and if we're honest, to make the awful winter training count for something.
With that much money, you wont fight for anything, ever. And that is what's so wrong with half these players, they dont' have the stomach for the fight and they don't have the desire because they are too self obsorbed, and to comfortable with the rest.
The fear of loosing. The fear of failure, of not bringing the cup back..again. It doesn't affect them, because they at the end of the day, don't really care, at the end of the day, they go home with their pockets full, whether or not we go home empty handed.
A friend told me this story before, John O Shea was in a pub in Waterford in the summer with a few of his friends and a Waterford hurling game was on, and they won, and at the end some lad turns around to him and says, you know John you'll never truely earn the heart and respect of the people of Waterford and he replies, true, but you'll never earn 80,000 a week..(or whatever it was.)
It was only a bit of craic and a joke. But the point is still there. Do 90% of them really care at all, at the end of the day, whether we like it or not, it is all about the money, and which club they play for, once it pays well, is now a days, irrelevant.
