Team playing

I pontificated in the past about team spirit when Wayne Carey was picked up by The Adelaide Crows after having been dumped by the Kangaroos for, amongst other things, bonking his captain's and alleged best-friend's wife.
Why, I wondered, would any team want to recruit someone who obviously threatened the cohesiveness of the team. The answer (though not simple) is of course talent. Carey, it seems to me, was not such a great pick-up; was never happy in Adelaide; and is now a rather pathetic picture. The game of football was diminished (I think) when it said that we can forgive anything if we can get someone who will kick goals.
So here we go again, Collingwood have had a little spat this week. And bad though it is that who ever was driving was also drunk, the issue that has caused dismissals is not the event itself but the lying about it. So Alan Didak (who appears to have been a passenger) is being disposed of for lying, to management and others.
This seems to me not totally unreasonable, since you should expect your team to have a certain loyalty and honesty.
Is there also a certain opportunism in getting rid of a rotten apple? Possibly
Eddie McGuire, the mega star and Collingwood President, was being grilled by principal idiot Sam Newman last night (I wonder if it really was hard hitting or if it was just meant to look so). It looked sort of convincing, but did he actually breach confidence by talking hypothetically about generic "Player's background", whilst engaged in a conversation abotu one in particular. (I mean he alluded to things that may have happened to some players when they were children which may explain why they were difficult...was he talking about Didak? I don't know! But he could have been, and it sort of seemed like that, but I don't know.
Eddie is alleged to have told the boys in the dressing room when berating them "I have sacrificed everything for this club, I have given up the chance of three Gold Logies!!" (Strewth!!)

Any way, moving on, it was fascinating to see that no sooner had Didak the loose cannon been released that there were murmurings about whether or not the Power would pick him up.
The ability to kick goals conquers all reservations.
So it was good to see Captain Tredrea and others (here), let's hope the Crows (for the team's sake) don't make the Carey mistake over again