Better we guide them; than make excuses for them

It is well and good for the players to show their discontent if they are not happy with something. I have always been one to say the welfare of the players is not adequately taken care off in most instances, but that is the old age problem that we all know about. What seems to be happening nowadays is that there are some elements of some ill-discipline creeping in and it is always justified by the same old excuses that their welfare is not adequately taken care off.

For a long time, some Zebras players have played with our emotions and abused our sympathy. Everytime they go off the rails, they know we will make excuses for them and justify their bad behaviour with the usual; ‘they are not well taken care off’, ‘They are paid late’, ‘Their allowances are too little’, ‘the BFA this and that’, and all that other hogwash we always come up with to defend them and shift the blame elsewhere.