I'm fine with telling a player he isnt good enough - what gets me pissed is that they've taken a kid who is passionate about football, and passionate about being a waratah, and instead of telling him "work on this, or work on that asperct of your game. We will help you out" they told him he would never make it. too bad, see you later. it's just poor attitude and poor management. even if they had said "we dont have the space to keep you in the system, but work hard and come back next year" it would have given him a shot at coming back in, instead of saying "you will never make it"
"I wasn't physically anywhere near Super standard and my skills weren't good either. Some guys straight after school have that confidence to take on the world, and good luck to them. I just didn't enjoy my time there because I wasn't confident."
McCabe chose to leave the Waratahs and spend a year training on his own and playing for the Warringah Rats.
they offered to keep training him, he chose to leave.
by his own admission he wasnt up to scratch and what the waratahs did for him was enable him to see this and work on it. if by your opinion they destroyed his passion or drive he wouldnt have made it at all.
not every player is on the same development path, its very easy to stand back and say that player is good now, the Tahs stuffed up, but when there 18/19 year old kids, untested, making the call on who and when is much harder.
shows how passionate he was to be a Tah though that he never considered coming back, if he never thought he could make it in True Blue, we shouldnt want him anyway.
