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It depends which narrative we accept. And which came first.I don’t blame Garcia for looking elsewhere. Little justification to have VDM, McNeil and Gallagher in the side over him. There comes a point where talent wins out over ‘coachability’, and imo Garcia compared to those two - especially McNeil and Gallagher - is clear cut.
If he’s being dropped for brain fades and to learn to adapt to the rules I’d like to see Bailey Williams pay up for his 50m penalties.
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Bevo says he's in the twos because he copped some bewildering umpiring decisions and it affected his confidence. I'm calling BS. First time in my life I've heard of a player being dropped for that. It's laughable.
The other story doing the rounds is that he's being punished for having the temerity to tour Kat Park in the middle of the season. That's not been substantiated but it's more plausible to me than dropping a player because he had a couple of bad umpiring decisions go against him.
If so, he was looking elsewhere before these other blokes were playing in the seniors (and he wasn't). So being dropped couldn't have been his motivation for exploring elsewhere. And if it was true (I repeat that it's still not substantiated) it would have been pretty dumb of him to get caught doing that.
It's fine to give him a lecture. Maybe even drop him as a disciplinary measure for one game. But let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. Unless he is rehabilitated soon we would almost certainly be in the process of pushing him out the door, intentionally or otherwise.
He's just the sort of busy tier 2 player Geelong would love and would turn into a success. Perfect age too, 23 years. Thanks for priming him for us, Doggies.
Let's not turn ourselves into a feeder club FFS.