You could also interpret as ARU/ Super Rugby franchises decline to sign "overweight, unfit rugby player who won't stop eating shit or improve his own fitness (like amateur era international players somehow managed on their own time) unless he gets paid to."
Australian rugby teams have demonstrated an inability to help the big rigs trim down. I can't speak first hand of how under funded the Super Rugby teams are when it comes to nutrition.
Without doxxing this person, I was told how Reds players would go to have a bite to eat after a training session and there either was no food, or not enough food. They'd then have to go to subway/Nandos at Kelvin Grove to go and get a fed. Compare that to the gold standard NFL/Soccer and there are chefs that feed 100+ people without batting an eye lid, where they get exactly what they need.
When you're a rugby player, especially a large player trying to trim down, its not as simple as putting the fork down and having a salad. There's a pretty big balancing act to work at a calorific deficit but ensuring you're fueled for your training session and able to recover. If you don't have the knowledge, it's bloody difficult and not as simply as "don't swing by the KFC drive through after training".
Also read as regular millennial entitlement attitude.
You couldn't have missed the mark any further.
He's clearly demonstrated the attitude you want in your players. He was told no in so many different clubs, travelled overseas to a foreign country where he doesn't speak their language, applied himself both at training and in the kitchen and now Australia is complaining about missing out on a gem.
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