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[Canard]

People complain that the Gold Coast are a constant failure and need to go. Imagine they did all this and took 50 years to win a fkn comp?

The Cronulla Sharks. Rugby league's greatest mistake.

They were brought into the league for negative cynical reasons. Not to "expand" the competition into new areas, nor for the betterment of the game as a whole, but merely to limit the power and reach of the game's dominant club at the time. They should have gone the way of the Sth Qld Crushers.

Soon after the club was in financial strife, appointed an administrator and needed a bailout loan. The league gave them one, but didn't afford the same luxury to other struggling clubs Wests or Newtown.

Later they tried to sell the club to a celebrity quack Dr Jeff Edelstein, without NSRWL approval or advice. It was denied.

Then the CEO Paul Gow shreds a fans jersey

Then Greg Bird glasses his girlfriend and pins it on his mate

Captain Paul Gallen rips out a players stitches on the field

Peptide scandal

Salary cap cheating

CEO Damian Keogh cocaine bust

Xerri Ben Johnson


We didn't start the fire

In Rugby League terms, that's a fairly innocuous list.

Some clubs manage to tick off all those things by breakfast on Mad Monday......

 

[ACTPanthers]

I get that but spilt seconds aren’t making that much difference in rugby league. I am not saying he shouldn’t be punished just that he shouldn’t get punished the same as a swimmer, runner, cyclist, weight lifter.

Again, if you start to have selective punishments for different sports, in my opinion, it opens a whole can of worms that we don't want.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Listening to T Goon or P Gallen should also result in a 4 year ban

 

[betcats]

Listening to T Goon or P Gallen should also result in a 4 year ban

Gal is the most hard done by person in the world if you ask him.

 

[T-Boon]

I’d give him this season and half next season. Any longer than that is too harsh. He is just a kid.

 

[Frailty]

MLB seems to have its own set of rules for PEDs. I think maybe America has told ASADA to go sit on it.

I certainly hope MLB wouldn't be using ASADA....

 

[ACTPanthers]

Gal is the most hard done by person in the world if you ask him.

Or ask Sharks fans...

 

[ACTPanthers]

I’d give him this season and half next season. Any longer than that is too harsh. He is just a kid.

Just a kid (he's 19 by the way, so technically an adult) is not an excuse or reason for a lesser punishment - To suggest it is, is just plain wrong.

 

[Fufu Andronez]

Ddone well to make the focus of this situation the "conspiracy theory of the delay in results" rather than the pharmacy that Xerri is alleged to have eaten

 

[9701]

MLB seems to have its own set of rules for PEDs. I think maybe America has told ASADA to go sit on it.

ASADA is Australias Anti Doping Agency, MLB would be USADA and they are all under the umbrella of WADA (World Anti Dopin Agency)

 

[T-Boon]

Just a kid (he's 19 by the way, so technically an adult) is not an excuse or reason for a lesser punishment - To suggest it is, is just plain wrong.

It is in court. Youth is taken into account.

 

[T-Boon]

ASADA is Australias Anti Doping Agency, MLB would be USADA and they are all under the umbrella of WADA (World Anti Dopin Agency)

let’s go with that

 

[T-Boon]

What would be wrong with 18 months suspension rather than 4 years?

 

[ACTPanthers]

It is in court. Youth is taken into account.

At 19, he'd be tried as an adult, and rightfully so, considering he is an adult... It's easy to understand - The "he's a kid" statement is irrelevant and erroneous

 

[ACTPanthers]

What would be wrong with 18 months suspension rather than 4 years?

It's a lighter sentence for something that carries a longer one... Why do you feel he is better and deserves a lesser punishment?

 

[T-Boon]

At 19, he'd be tried as an adult, and rightfully so, considering he is an adult... It's easy to understand - The "he's a kid" statement is irrelevant and erroneous

it is well known that at 19 the frontal lobe of the brain is not fully developed and people make bad decisions at that age.

 

[Chook Norris]

What would be wrong with 18 months suspension rather than 4 years?

Because it sends a message that drug cheating in some circumstances is ok. It is never ok.

Once you start being soft on punishment on younger players, you're basically giving some allowance for it. Pretty simple

 

[ACTPanthers]

it is well known that at 19 the frontal lobe of the brain is not fully developed and people make bad decisions at that age.

Ok... So you're just a f**king idiot that is trolling.. Got it... Carry on

 

[betcats]

What would be wrong with 18 months suspension rather than 4 years?

You sound ridiculous, why should he get a light punishment? Every man and his dog knows testosterone is the performance enhancer of choice for athletes, he blatantly cheated knowing the rules and the risks. Are you a Cronulla fan out of interest?

 

[9701]

What would be wrong with 18 months suspension rather than 4 years?

when the sharks and essendon had their peds scandals, the punishment was 2 years during their saga WADA incresed the punishment to 4 years which makes sense, Olympics are every 4 years so you get done for doping you miss the olympics