Well let me break it down for you. The current JFF admin took eight months to take any action on the issue. Any good management knows that is order to discipline you must act swiftly and decisively. Well, after they had let 8 months from the time of the incident slip by, the only way they could punish King was to keep him out of the Reggae Boyz for a protracted period of time.
When they had finally decided to act on this matter, so much time had passed and King was injured and expected to be out of the game for a long time. The JFF head honchos then figured that with the time that had passed, the player being out of commission due to injury, in order to make any punishment have any effect they would have to include the time they logged heads over making a decision, the time it would take for the player to get back in the game and the time it would take the Captain after returning to power to get things back on stream and get the Reggae Boyz any games of which King could take part in could be about 6 months after the change of power takes place. The thought is that if they cannot get any teams to play the Boyz in the 4 years they were holding office, certainly the good Captain cannot get anything in the period from November to May. So the decision was to keep King out until May.
I think that punishment should match the crime and at most King should have been given a 6 month ban if any ban at all. The fact of the matter though is that the ineptitude of the Boxhill admin coupled with the egos of the imbecilic disciplinary team who could not allow this transgression to go unpunished in the eyes of the public. They therefore contrived a two year ban to punish the player. I ask the question, which sensible management punishes a player for two years for a verbal outburst and coming in late when there were no set curfew hours?
The bottom line is that players need to be properly managed to get the most out of them. I think the problem was more one of bad management than it was the player being out of order. Good management would have established the correct boundaries from "the git go" and players could then be held accountable. Establishing the boundaries after the fact is a sign of poor management - one that lacks vision.
When they had finally decided to act on this matter, so much time had passed and King was injured and expected to be out of the game for a long time. The JFF head honchos then figured that with the time that had passed, the player being out of commission due to injury, in order to make any punishment have any effect they would have to include the time they logged heads over making a decision, the time it would take for the player to get back in the game and the time it would take the Captain after returning to power to get things back on stream and get the Reggae Boyz any games of which King could take part in could be about 6 months after the change of power takes place. The thought is that if they cannot get any teams to play the Boyz in the 4 years they were holding office, certainly the good Captain cannot get anything in the period from November to May. So the decision was to keep King out until May.
I think that punishment should match the crime and at most King should have been given a 6 month ban if any ban at all. The fact of the matter though is that the ineptitude of the Boxhill admin coupled with the egos of the imbecilic disciplinary team who could not allow this transgression to go unpunished in the eyes of the public. They therefore contrived a two year ban to punish the player. I ask the question, which sensible management punishes a player for two years for a verbal outburst and coming in late when there were no set curfew hours?
The bottom line is that players need to be properly managed to get the most out of them. I think the problem was more one of bad management than it was the player being out of order. Good management would have established the correct boundaries from "the git go" and players could then be held accountable. Establishing the boundaries after the fact is a sign of poor management - one that lacks vision.
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