Raiders appoint club historian

[The Voice of Reason!]

The English do some great IRL books -- Australia not so much. I've got a great one on the history of every RLWC. Check the Book Depository. There is some gold in there.

 

[gUt]

The publication will have to begin "once upon a time"

 

[macca_saint]

Ok, as the first derailer of this thread, I will ask a serious question: don't all clubs have histories written? I was genuinely surprised that Canberra is doing this because I suppose I had assumed that such a book would exist already. I guess I was thinking that other clubs would have things like Jack Galloway's excellent "Broncos - The Team To Beat" book.

How many club history books are there?

There is a great book called "Never Before, Never Again" about St George winning 11 premierships in a row.
Written by a bloke called Larry Writer funnily enough..

 

[roostersrule2]

There is a great book called "Never Before, Never Again" about St George winning 11 premierships in a row.
Written by a bloke called Larry Writer funnily enough..

Guess you could say he was born a Writer.

 

[The Voice of Reason!]

Guess you could say he was born a Writer.

"Champagne Comedy!" :lol:

 

[Raiderdave]

I think Raiderdave should be appealing this decision. Canberra are missing a unique opportunity to put Raiderdave's unique writing style to good use and widespread acclaim.

 

[Brutus]

Hopefully this historian can write a book on Damon Booby's career.

 

[Raiderdave]

I hope he manages to interview both of the Raiders' 2015 season members and the other dozen members of their home crowd. It would be good to get the average fan's perspective.

:lol:
Raiders 10,000 members / 400k people
Broncos .. what.. 17,000 from 2 million plus :lol:

 

[Raiderdave]

Or their alleged salary cap issues during thr golden years of the late 80's and early 90's.

Sweep sweep.

:sarcasm:

:lol:
Well your certainly no Historian . Are ya :crazy:

 

[Bobby DIGital]

So much automatic and predictable hate for a club which has given so much to the game. I don't understand it.

 

[madunit]

Great move by the Raiders. All clubs should have an in-house full time historian imo.

(Might also mean I get a gig lol)

 

[madunit]

Ok, as the first derailer of this thread, I will ask a serious question: don't all clubs have histories written? I was genuinely surprised that Canberra is doing this because I suppose I had assumed that such a book would exist already. I guess I was thinking that other clubs would have things like Jack Galloway's excellent "Broncos - The Team To Beat" book.

How many club history books are there?

Prior to this decision, no club had an employee who was an official historian.

Most clubs either hire Middleton as a consultant, or they have unofficial historians (mostly fans of the club volunteering their time)

 

[JamesRustle]

Which of the Furner clan has been appointed to the role?

 

[madunit]

Or their alleged salary cap issues during thr golden years of the late 80's and early 90's.

Sweep sweep.

This recent history stuff isn't what I focus on, so I'm happy to be corrected here.

Pretty sure the cap was introduced in 1989 and Canberra were deemed to have exceeded it for the 1990 and 1991 seasons (not 1989 though), during the 1991 season. This saw them loose a heap of players for 1992.

If memory serves correct, they copped a fine too.

The cap back then was a different beast to what it is now. Back then, it only covered marquee players, or full-time professionals I think.

The NSWRL were just as much to blame for the Raiders cap issue in 1990-91, given the cap they introduced had loopholes so big it was practically pointless.

At the end of the 1991 season Canberra shed 19 players and bought 3 with 16 making their first grade debut

At the end of the 1992 season Canberra lost a further 18 players, bought 0 with 10 making their first grade debut

The only player they signed from another club between 1993 and 1997 were Peter Benson and David Shaw

It wasn't until 1998 that they became active in the player market again.

From 1992 until the end of Superleague, Canberra had to rely entirely on young players with no first grade experience and whoever they had left over that hadn't retired along the way to see them through.

In comparison the Bulldogs lost 6 players after the 2002 cap cheating
The Storm lost 11 players after their 2010 cap cheating

 

[roofromoz]

Ok, as the first derailer of this thread, I will ask a serious question: don't all clubs have histories written? I was genuinely surprised that Canberra is doing this because I suppose I had assumed that such a book would exist already. I guess I was thinking that other clubs would have things like Jack Galloway's excellent "Broncos - The Team To Beat" book.

How many club history books are there?

Penrith have 2 - Bound For Glory released in 1992, and Men In Black released in 2008.

 

[ACTPanthers]

Penrith have 2 - Bound For Glory released in 1992, and Men In Black released in 2008.

LOVE this book - Any Panther fan who hasn't read it needs to now

 

[nomis88]

Heard on the grapevine that the Sharks are to appoint a curator for their trophy room. Good to see otherwise things may go astray.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

hopefully they do a few docos as well, maybe partnering with the NRL Films division.

 

[steggz]

Heard on the grapevine that the Sharks are to appoint a curator for their trophy room. Good to see otherwise things may go astray.

Need to get the perspective of that AMCO Cup just right...

 

[madunit]

Need to get the perspective of that AMCO Cup just right...

...which happens to be their second First Grade trophy