Richards decided to come here early in his career before he had a family as he wanted to go overseas and saw doing that at this time in his life as ideal. He is using his profession to help him fulfill that particular ambition as many people do.At last" YOU GOT IT the guy signed up on big bucks to play centre. The money was all that he desired. The fact he could not do the job was not in his mind set. He is STEELing MONEY
This seemed a very mature way of looking at it to my mind as rather than wait until he was 30 or so he made a concious decision to leave a Grand Final winning side with whom he was doing well to move to Wigan to fullfill his desire to travel.
He had a settled career in his team but chose to move on not stay in the comfort zone.
This was all well documented before he came so to say he is only here for he money is stupid.
Yes he was signed as a centre and it has not worked out but I thought we had all decided that was a mistake made by the club and had moved on. We can't change it so why bother going on about it?
I don't suppose he enjoys being dropped and he will know if he does not play well he won't get in the team. Seems fair enough to me given Boble has praised his attitude while in the U21.
While we have struggled at centre due to the poor form of DV and Richards when played there, at least we now have competition for places on the wing.
Dave