‘Could he have regained their trust and confidence? Perhaps. But given his history, one already riddled with team and league suspensions, on top of questions about his commitment to the team and his own body, that would have taken two monumental leaps. The first from Dareus himself, to get to a place both physically and mentally he hadn’t been and still appeared unwilling to go. The other a leap of faith in him by McDermott and Beane.’