If you're referring to your redemption angle, I kind of have to disagree.
Giving players a 2nd chance for relatively minor transgressions that will blow over after a press conference or two isn't a huge deal. Mactavish is a much more serious case, but his incident happened so far back that I doubt most players know about it, and reporters aren't going to be harrassing them about it either.
Bowman's issues are much higher profile, much more recent, and has a chance of turning into a side show every time they go to a new city and a reporter wants to dig for a fresh quote.
I think the present players are immune and above such vitriol. They have accepted Kane, Perry, others with open arms. They will be fine with this and will have been consuted on this. The team are not milquetoast players that will be harmed by views and increasingly we're seeing a cancelling of cancel culture. Winds have changed and are changing.
Bowmans issues happened a longtime ago as well and they were not his sole transgressions. At worse he was the manager that looked off, looked away. he was not the perpetrator, or primary perpetrator.
In anycase I feel with that I might have gone too far on a slippery slope. Just saying.
It is my take the players like a challenge and like being stalwart and taking on the world. Consider it that way and McD's whole penchant for stating "none of you guys believed in us and here we are, we love proving doubters wrong" Thats the same energy they will bring forward.
