Tommy gives it to Daley

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Quite funny really.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/to...ach-laurie-daley/story-fndv2twz-1226817510620

NSW great Tommy Raudonikis has launched a blistering personal attack on Blues' coach Laurie Daley.
Raudonikis, fuming at not being invited to a NSW dinner last month, took aim at the size of Daley's nose and branded Blues' assistant Trent Barrett "the most overrated player".
Raudonikis failed to get an invite because he's not a former "winning captain" - the invites going to series winners only.
Gavin Miller (1989), Ray Price (1983-84) and Max Krilich (1982-83) also missed invites on the same grounds.
How we broke the story: Tommy on the outer
"Look, I'm a winner, I'm not a loser, and for him to only invite winning captains, well mate, I am cut to the bone," Raudonikis told Triple M's The Grill Team this morning.
"My great mate Arthur Beetson, he was invited to every State of Origin Queensland function and we kicked the damn thing off.
"Now, look mate, I'm that filthy and Laurie Daley wants to have a good look at himself and have a look at the staff.
"He also mentioned that when I go down to State of Origin or whatever, I bagged the players - well, why wouldn't I bag them? After losing for eight, for eight years, they deserve bagging."

Former NSW Origin player and coach Tommy Raudonikis. Source: News Limited





Raudonikis's spray soon turned personal.
"I'll tell you something about Laurie Daley, I think his big nose is getting in the way of a lot of things.
"Mate, he's got to teach New South Wales how to win, he hasn't done that.
"And another thing, I spoke to the New South Wales team a number of years ago and okay, they probably said 'who's this silly old bastard?' You know, if they would have listened to what I told them about hatred and winning, they mightn't be in this predicament today.
"I really mean that guys. New South Wales are very, very lucky that their supporters haven't turfed them…
"If your business is going bad, don't you sack people? Trent Barrett, he's the most overrated player. Now, I'm getting a bit nasty here, but why wouldn't I? That's the way I am."

Laurie Daley at NSW training. Source: News Limited




Daley said Raudonikis wasn't left off the invite list as a directive.
"No-one has got an issue with him in terms of a bloke, it's just that every time Origin rolls around they just cop it," Daley said.
"But it wasn't a directive at all.
"They have done all different ones and I was trying to do something a little different. I wanted to have the winning captains there.
"It wasn't a snub of anyone in particular."

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Pretty much sums up why he wasn't invited.

No one is entitled to anything Tommy. He's a caricature of a fossilised era. A joke.

 

[hineyrulz]

Cripple fight!!!

 

[Pierced Soul]

Tommy's always good for a whinge. he may be passionate but he hasn't learned that times have changed since he last played/coached

 

[TheDalek079]

Mitch Pearce > Tommy

 

[Marshall_magic]

Tommy's a good dial a quote and that's about it. I always thought he was self aware enough to realise this but maybe he isn't.

 

[El Diablo]

i lost respect for this clown when watching a Big Bash game and he said he went for Queensland in all sports except for Origin

he's a fraud

 

[betcats]

f**k I dont like Daley at all. f**king been involved in 8 series losses in a row but will have no problem writing a dozen telecrap articles on what it will take for nsw to win.

Rugby League has been very slow to learn great players rarely equal great coaches/administrators etc.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

This is the single worst thing about profesional sport.

Any ex player is deemed to have a completely valid and newsworthy opinion just because they are former players.

To be clear, these are not people with any kind of proven intellectual prowess. They became famous for repeatedly running head first into 150kg hunks of muscle, and in media circles that makes their opinion valid....

 

[latif]

At least he's right about Trent Barrett

 

[Big Pete]

Storm in a teacup but it seems like a petty move from the NSWRL on the surface.

It was just a dinner celebrating NSW - Tommy is pretty important to the fabric of NSW Origin - would an invite have really hurt?

 

[some11]

He's a caricature of a fossilised era. A joke.

Couldn't have said it better.

Cattledog.. give me a f**ken break.

 

[Puntastic]

 

[LOYAL DRAGON]

Ilol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGAqOlvp0Gs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[butchmcdick]

i lost respect for this clown when watching a Big Bash game and he said he went for Queensland in all sports except for Origin

he's a fraud

Tommy made the list ?

 

[magpie4ever]

Does anyone realise that Tommy Ridiculous is a genius. A bit of reverse psychology, bag the coach and his assistant, getting the players revved up.

Go Tommy.

 

[Hutty1986]

He might be a senile old windbag but he's spot on. Year after year we show we don't hate these merkins enough and we aren't tough enough when it matters. The streak will blow out even more until that happens and the qld arrogance will contine to soar.

 

[El Diablo]

Tommy made the list ?

what list is that?

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

f**k I dont like Daley at all. f**king been involved in 8 series losses in a row but will have no problem writing a dozen telecrap articles on what it will take for nsw to win.

Rugby League has been very slow to learn great players rarely equal great coaches/administrators etc.

I'm no fan of anything Loz has done that hasn't involved him wearing a pair of football boots.

And you're right about the last bit.

Thankfully, that all looks to be changing.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

He might be a senile old windbag but he's spot on. Year after year we show we don't hate these merkins enough and we aren't tough enough when it matters. The streak will blow out even more until that happens and the qld arrogance will contine to soar.

This just isn't true. What about Gallen's legendary schoolyard quote from a couple years back?

"People talk about how much they hate us, well we hate them times a thousand"