I still remember in the dark days of NQ football, he used to deathride my club like a beaten favourite. ‘Who would want to go up there and play, they bring nothing to the comp, why are they in our comp??.....’ in perticular I remember he was very vocal on one Sunday footy show episode.
we managed to jag a win not long after against Canterbury at ANZ in 2000, Paul Bowman, as he got subbed off with the Cowbs holding a decent lead, went over to an onfield mic and shouted into it ‘Shove that up ya f$@@ing ass Gus!’ Or words to that effect.
Gould is a piece of know it all shit that actually knows f$@& all about our game. Listening to him brag that ‘i said this at halftime...... blah blah and they’re doing it!!!!’
Shut up Gus.
Gus has a weird relationship with the Cowboys. In the 2011 pre-season, Henry tried to hire him as a consultant and flew Gus up to get his take. Gus walked out on the deal, criticized the Cowboys and said something to the effect that they were beyond saving. It was a strange statement as well given how well the Cowboys had recruited and just how strong their junior stocks were looking. At the time you had Jason Taumalolo, Michael Morgan, Kyle Feldt, Chris Grevsmuhl, Felise Kaufusi, Moses Pangai among others coming through and it looked like the Cows were going to turn a corner after a horrid 2008-10 period.
Ever since then, whenever he can get away with barracking against the Cowboys, he'll take it. When he used to be active on Twitter, he'd often talk up the opposition even when the Cowboys were clearly the better team on the night or were going to get their second win in the final quarter of the game.
The only thing that rivals Gould's bizarre Cowboys bias is his Melbourne Storm salt. I still have memories of him sooking big time after Melbourne beat Sydney in Week 1 of the 2015 Finals. That extended to last season where he just kept death-riding the Storm all week leading up to the Grand Final and refused to give credit to the Storm's defence which had done incredibly well to limit the Sharks scoring. And it's resurfaced once more and he's been beating the same drum since the Eels game even though Melbourne were the better side.
It wouldn't be a problem if he wanted to carry this persona on some panel show and they presented it as some sort of shtick but as a main caller and general manager of a rival club it just comes off as unprofessional. It's a shame because when Gus isn't getting caught up in his prejudices he's easily the most insightful media personality in the game.
