: Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:16 pm
Marcus Jones wrote:
So why are people like yourself having a pop at Clarke? Did he force Ashton to employ him?
The buck stops with the player, not the agent.
Both players and agents want to make money. No problem there at all. They need to live.
But agents who advise their players to go to Union are still damaging RL. Sorry if this truth hurts them. But they can't have it both ways. If they send their players to Union - which many of them seek to do, because there is more money there - they are going to be disliked in League. End of.
For the record, those players who opt to go are guilty of the same thing. Though at the end of the day they are usually young men, or even lads, who are acting on the advice of their agents, who they see as mentors, father figures, etc. I had an agent, and I very rarely went against his advice.
So for me, the agents are slightly more guilty.
I can see why they do this. I understand it. But I still don't care. As a die-hard RL fan, I bitterly resent anyone, whatever their reason, who damages RL. Sorry, but that's all there is to it.
