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    Eliminate risk and it will be game over

    Kirky stop speaking so much truth; your interrupting all the necessary praise these wonderful people are offering Gus for the fresh insight & intellect... Sorry cant keep a straight face. I had a similar reaction - he is an old man trying to understand a changing world but making no sense of...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Yes. Every single nrl club doctor all gave their permission to your anonymous player to stay on the field. They all left their respective clubs and flew to the anonymous game where they all sat huddled together just in case a decision by all of them at once would need to be made. And then it...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Your completely missing the point. You cannot separate the messenger from the message when it is an opinion piece, it's someone's opinion it belongs to them. They own it. They expressed it. I'm happy for you that you so identified with his message, as self interested and conflicting as it was :)...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    No need to separate the message from the messenger when Mr. Gould's article is an opinion piece. In contrast, the position that NRL club doctors had on the shoulder charge is not anyone's opinion, its a fact: they were all calling for it to be banned. Seems they don't share the inane...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Stop worrying bout the messenger and pay attention to the message.
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Yep Gallen ruined it by being a wank. And if D. Smith had come out and said the refs were wrong and should have binned Gallen he would have the sydney media and NSWRL calling for his head, let alone put the SOO concept in jeopardy with claims of sanctioned bias to one state. So instead he...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Well according to Gould's frame of reference everybody not a player or ex-player is an outsider. And I think its pretty safe assumption that there a lot of people who have not played the game who pay clubs and the NRL money to have their businesses receive something from the game in some way...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Thanks for the Gould article. I get the impression he is still trying to put all the pieces together but in the mean time is more than happy to grumble. He is part of the media that he rallies against - he mentions the toughness of the game in the 70's but then admits it shouldn't be like...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Here we go. Another pompous claim backed up with vitriol and little substance. It must be BS cause every mum who (never) considered RL was aware of the document and choose otherwise :sarcasm::lol: Gallen fighting without a sin bin in Origin speaks louder than any piece of paper & some words...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Hahaha and you do know. Oh God. You actually think you can tell the future. Remember how you called me a clown? :lol: Hate to break it to you... most people don't watch for the blues. You know that half a million Victorian's you mentioned earlier. There proxy QLD supporters. I suspected you...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Oh wow. Thanks for such enlightening views on how to spot when sponsors walk away. I said how do you know what sponsors are saying behind close doors. But thanks for sharing your intellect who knew that when a sponsor is sponsoring one minute but not the next - that is when a sponsor has walked...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    I'm ignoring that Origin is important to growing the game? LOL Let me make it simple for you: You claim the nature of Origin has been so horribly altered by D. Smith that it will lose viewers over time. I don't happen to agree. I think Origin will only get stronger, and will continue to draw...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    If it happened again yeah maybe it would. So I presume administration stepped in to make sure it wouldn't. Cause you know sponsors giving up on NRL clubs is totally unheard of; take your head out of Gallen's @rse. How do you know what sponsors tell administration behind closed doors? Oh you...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    So I must have NFI if I think the 400,000 odd Victorian viewers will not bugger off once they realise fighting is no longer sanctioned. Let's say Game 2 may get the same numbers (or more) because they are still expecting a fight. But Game 3 - lets revisit this and see who is right. I have...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    So the nature of Origin is punching on without immediate sin binning. That's why 400,000 Victorian's watched SOO 1? I think most would have been too impressed with all the drop ball of the first half. Even if you step back & say fighting is part of the nature of Origin, the immediate sin bin...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Maybe. Society is becoming very sensitive. Apparently Tom Waterhouse, with his white pasty complexion and slightly creepy grin was too much of a role model for the kids who couldn't spot the difference between him & Inglis. Don't remember too many people who complained about society...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    That's all good if you never want League to grow beyond its current supporter base, but fortunately for us the administration has a bit more perspective than yourself. Maybe, maybe not. We'll see in a couple of years time when RL junior numbers go up cause the grubbiness has been eradicated...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Thats great; wonder what MMA participation levels are. You do know Rugby League wants to be both a tv product & a sport that children actively participate in right? Right back at ya! :)
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    Wrong. It may not have deterred a network run by a proven @rse clown who then had to subsidise the coverage with Mr Waterhouse to get he's money back, but it has deterred plenty of sponsors. Look at the sponsors the AFL has. They have big businesses & international brands like Emirates on...
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    Dave Smith is the greatest administrator in RL history.

    ahhhhhh I think ur more twisted than a pretzel. LOL. Regardless of whether your condemning or condoning fighting, your still acting the Helen Lovejoy if your concerned about its effect on children. I'm sure the children you enlighten with the rights and wrongs of the world are totally...

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