watt price tully wrote:BucksIsFutureCoach wrote:Gee, some over reaction here. Thankfully he didn't hurt anyone.
A few days ago people here are calling him a star and now the same people are calling on him to be sacked.
Reality check please. De Goey is no star, not just yet anyway. He serves penance and then we all move on when the main season starts up.
As a suggested punishment I think he should visit some of the causality wards of our public hospitals and witnesses some of the damage that alcohol causes amongst the community.
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Mostly agree. Like almost all here I'm pissed off at his actions.
Last year he was suspended: it hurt him and hurt the club. In my view that was shooting ourselves in the foot.
The punitive way to ban him, suspend him or trade him is reactive and a knee jerk reaction & achieves little.
DeGoey has now lost his license, lost credibility, been shamed publicly & has invited shame & oppobrium to the club.
There needs to be a more creative way to deal with this so
1. He learns
2. We develop him into being a better player & person
3. That we don't harm him and the club's intersts by suspending him
Accordingly (given the punitive approach didn't work last year) we try:
ideas such as:
1. Making him experience what it is like for victims of drink driving - forcing him to sit in a wheelchair, be fed, showered, have your teeth brushed placed in and out of a bed etc, by others for ? a weekc / two weeks
2. Making him work for victims of intoxicated drivers (if they agree) make him wipe their backsides, feed, clean etc see what it is like etc, & talk to the families of said victims etc of drink drivers.
3. Make him go to jail & speak with inmates who have been done for injuring and maiming others while dring driving
4. Other similar ideas
All of or some of the above for an extended period of time will be incredibly powerful and confronting and can serve to make a start in his rehabilitation and help regain the trust of others.
Punsihment through suspension is mere anger being amplified and does not assist him & the club to grow.We want to get the most out of him & this wil not occur as has been already demonstrated by his supension last year notwithstanding his "broken hand"