Davey,
can you claim a perfect life?
Have you always done what the teacher told you... your parents told you? Did you ace every school test?
Please everyone in your life?
Have you made the most of every opportunity given to you?
Me... I have stuffed up countless times. Made mistakes daily... let alone all my life.
We all have baggage mate.... all sorts of backgrounds.
Maybe the kid has had it tough?
Maybe he wants to succeed... but struggles with his past?
Nothing new to me,
Have failed many times in life,
Give the kid a go
We all deserve second and maybe third chances..... maybe many chances before we succeed,
I defended Troy on this forum and BF quite a bit shiner, but stuff me, how many times you give someone another chance?
If he wasnt on an AFL list he would most probably be in jail now.
Unlike most indigenous kids from up this way he actually has good role models in his life. His mum works in the education department, his uncle, ernie dingo keeps in contact and tries to point him right.
His mum moved from Darwin to Alice in an attempt to get him away from the bad influences that saw him spend time inside, in the first place and to be near family that hopefully would guide him.
When he first joined the club you could get a good insight from his facebook page. The thing that concerned me was the constant desire to get back up to Darwin. He got leave of absence last year and now he just goes awol. It all gets a bit hard so he leaves town and shoots back up here. Just to hang out with the same stuffwits that saw him end up in the clink?
He didn't even answer calls from his mum or the club. " He goes like this every now and then" or similar was what his mum said at the time.
He has the world at his feet and he simply peees on it.
To make the grade in AFL requires an enormous strength of character, something it is starting to seem Troy just hasnt got. He needs to show he wants it and he aint doing that at the moment. FFS, sooking the club wont give him a house.
Time to shut that page on this chapter and give someone else a go IMO, but perhaps the fact that the talent pool is shallow due to GWS may see him given yet another chance. If that happens then good luck to him and hopefully he takes the chance with both hands.
I'd be betting we dont see him again though and sometime in the near future he gets a mention in the old footballers thread about being locked up again.
I do hope I'm wrong on this one.
