Wonder if it’s less particularly bad apples now, so much as players earning huge sums but not leading by example, giving 100% etc.
Gomes for example reputed to be on north of 100k per week, yet barely makes a first 11. Would someone like Grey look at that and think why should I be arsed? Does that make Gomes a rotter, Grey a rotter or both of them?
Probably easier to say who isn’t in that category tbh, likes of Coleman, Townsend, Davies, Gordon, Keane etc….. most of whom I think we could question their quality, but I would bet their commitment is exemplary.
Basically is there simply a morale issue due to mosh weighing out fortunes on wasters.