20 Years Ago Today

[Vic Mackey]

Rugby League has its greatest day in its beautiful history

 

[This Year?]

Meh, the emotion in those pics were a weekly occurrence for dragons fans in 2019.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Has it been 20 years?

Maybe Vic was confused about the tigers last finals appearance.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Or maybe he meant the death of Balmain.....

Here I'll post some reactions to that........
















Or that's right.

No one gave a sh!t.

 

[King hit]

That super league stuff really disgusts me but it’s the way the world works. Rich get richer and everyone else suffers.

 

[mozza91]

Meh, the emotion in those pics were a weekly occurrence for dragons fans in 2019.

After making the 2nd week of the finals in 2018. Talk about long suffering.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Rugby League has its greatest day in its beautiful history

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A bit of background info please, was this when the government brought in work for the dole?

 

[Bazal]

A bit of background info please, was this when the government brought in work for the dole?

Pokie laws maybe?

Or the higher taxes on RTD bourbon?

 

[Someguy]

Guess the irony being that the 1908 season and the effectively the start of what we now call NRL was a breakaway competition motivated by money.

 

[Lambretta]

That super league stuff really disgusts me but it’s the way the world works. Rich get richer and everyone else suffers.

Worked really well for News didn't it?

How much did they sink into the War?

 

[Mr Spock!]

Vic still has nightmares about 1909.

 

[Rooster8]

Has it been 20 years?

Maybe Vic was confused about the tigers last finals appearance.

Only 1? That's cute

 

[Mr Spock!]

Only 1? That's cute

Goes well with the other 20.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

It was twenty years ago today
That Sergeant Murdoch said you can't play
They had been out of the finals for awhile
And they're guaranteed to give a toothless smile
So may I introduce to you
The rabble you've known all these years
Russell's hopeless team's fans....

 

[Captain Apollo]

 

[Vic Mackey]

Don’t worry Souths fans we all know you got your team back for 5 years before you sold your sole to become Russell Crowe FC

 

[SBD82]

Don’t worry Souths fans we all know you got your team back for 5 years before you sold your sole to become Russell Crowe FC

A step up for Rusty.

Usually the FC at the end of his name stands for something very different.

 

[axl rose]

Don’t worry Souths fans we all know you got your team back for 5 years before you sold your sole to become Russell Crowe FC

The best part was all the players who left pretending they were Souths boys again. Jim Serdaris, Roberts, Sean Garlic, Mario. There is no Rugby League without the Rabbitohs blah blah. They got the hell outta there (wisely) as soon as they could.

 

[dogz08]

we need alien back for threads like this..

 

[PARRA_FAN]

The best part was all the players who left pretending they were Souths boys again. Jim Serdaris, Roberts, Sean Garlic, Mario. There is no Rugby League without the Rabbitohs blah blah. They got the hell outta there (wisely) as soon as they could.

I remember Serdaris blowing up saying he'll walk away from the game, I think he was keen to go back to Souths after Manly didnt offer him a contract.

If I recall leading up to the decision by the NRL, there were players like Iro, Wing, Brasher training with only a few other players. Its like some of the squad members didnt bother to show up knowing what was going to happen or they jumped ship.

After their last game against Parramatta, it was Mark Carroll and Sean Garlick's last game, both were pretty emotional not just because they were retiring but they feared Souths might not be around. They did a behind the scenes on the Footy Show and Craig Coleman's speech sensed something might occur, either merge, relocations or kicked out.

This had been hovering for a while, the end of the 1998 season, Neil Whittaker was interviewed and hinted Souths were one of the clubs for a merger, along with Balmain, Wests, Norths.