Authorities investigate medical service deal with league star Greg Inglis

[The Elephant In The room]

Who gives a f**k? I doubt he researched every nook and crannie of the agreement and why would he?

The sponsors got it wrong, not Souths or Inglis.

He might not have know that funds could be used for the purpose of paying an ambassador, but I'm sure he realises that charities are there to help the less fortunate in this world, not rich footballers. How many hours has he put into this charity work to "earn" his $$$? I wonder if he even knows where the charity is based.

He is a low life. What's next for him? Setting up the "GI Redfern charity" with him as the sole beneficiary?

 

[BunniesMan]

He might not have know that funds could be used for the purpose of paying an ambassador, but I'm sure he realises that charities are there to help the less fortunate in this world, not rich footballers. How many hours has he put into this charity work to "earn" his $$$? He is a low life. What's next for him? Setting up the "GI Redfern charity" with him as the sole beneficiary?

Do you really think he is the first high profile person to be paid by a charity? More charities do this than not.

 

[Danish]

I think people should stop being naive in expecting 100% of their money will go to on the ground outcomes.

You need to spend money to make money. You need to know about charities to donate them, for them to be well known they need to market themselves. That costs money.

The organisation is funded by medicare, and 100% of its funding is supposed to go to primary health care.

Thats besides the point, however. The point is Inglis - oft held up as a champion of doing charity work for the indigenous community - is pillaging hundreds of thousands of dollars directly out of the coffers of indigenous charities.

Do you think Thurston would demand what has added up to a quarter of a million dollars over the last few seasons just to do a bit of promo work for the local indigenous hospital in Townsville? Its a disgusting attitude which Inglis has carried his entire career (he was pulling the same stunt with local melbourne charities while at the storm)

 

[blaza88z]

Bottom line is this article is an unjustified smear on the character of Greg Inglis. He is without a doubt one of the standout citizens of rugby league. He is an asset to the NRL. We (as in the entire code) are lucky to have him.

do you write your own content, that's one of the funniest things I have ever seen you say. I know you have an obvious bias and a 3 inch hard on for Inglis but that's taking it to a new level

he should be guillotined much like Robert Lui for harming a defenceless woman, neither of them should have the privilege to play our great game, I don't give a f**k how good they are

i'm not shocked he's receiving money from a charity, how else would Souffs be able to fund him? given the Souffs club is basically a charity themselves, have you seen the appearance of half their fans?

 

[The Elephant In The room]

Do you really think he is the first high profile person to be paid by a charity? More charities do this than not.

So being "one" of "many" low life's gouging money from charities is ok, but just make sure you aren't the only one doing it?

It's only a rort if you aren't in on it.

 

[Miller was a legend]

Do you really think he is the first high profile person to be paid by a charity? More charities do this than not.

You are a first class f**kwit!

Apart from being a client, what the f**k would you know about how charities are run, their constitutions or restrictions on use of funding.

Shut the f**k up and focus on your centre link income

 

[hineyrulz]

BM the spanker providing some quality laughs in this thread as usual. Inglis a standout moral citizen in RL :lol::lol::lol:

 

[The Elephant In The room]

The organisation is funded by medicare, and 100% of its funding is supposed to go to primary health care.

Thats besides the point, however. The point is Inglis - oft held up as a champion of doing charity work for the indigenous community - is pillaging hundreds of thousands of dollars directly out of the coffers of indigenous charities.

Do you think Thurston would demand what has added up to a quarter of a million dollars over the last few seasons just to do a bit of promo work for the local indigenous hospital in Townsville? Its a disgusting attitude which Inglis has carried his entire career (he was pulling the same stunt with local melbourne charities while at the storm)

Will be interesting to see if JT, Third-man or some of the other more outspoken aboriginal players come out in the media and give it to GI over this. In fact, they'll lose a bit if my respect if they don't because the low life deserves to have his name dragged through the mud over it. No doubt his supporters will arrange a timely photo shoot (paid of course) with a homeless man tomorrow for the papers.

 

[BunniesMan]

The organisation is funded by medicare, and 100% of its funding is supposed to go to primary health care.

Thats besides the point, however. The point is Inglis - oft held up as a champion of doing charity work for the indigenous community - is pillaging hundreds of thousands of dollars directly out of the coffers of indigenous charities.

Do you think Thurston would demand what has added up to a quarter of a million dollars over the last few seasons just to do a bit of promo work for the local indigenous hospital in Townsville? Its a disgusting attitude which Inglis has carried his entire career (he was pulling the same stunt with local melbourne charities while at the storm)

1. If the organisation has broken its own rules then it is their fault, not Inglis's fault.
2. He is not pillaging anything. He is taking money offered to him. Charity sponsorship is common. The entire WA cricket team is sponsored by a charity.
3. I don't know about Thurston specifically but I guarantee Inglis is not the only one. There would be many pro athletes in the NRL and other codes who get paid for charity work.
4. Inglis is a champion for the indigenous community as his charity work does not begin and end with this organisation. He does plenty of unpaid work with schools and other organisations.

do you write your own content, that's one of the funniest things I have ever seen you say. I know you have an obvious bias and a 3 inch hard on for Inglis but that's taking it to a new level

he should be guillotined much like Robert Lui for harming a defenceless woman, neither of them should have the privilege to play our great game, I don't give a f**k how good they are

i'm not shocked he's receiving money from a charity, how else would Souffs be able to fund him? given the Souffs club is basically a charity themselves, have you seen the appearance of half their fans?

Inglis is nothing like Lui. Only someone completely ignorant or completely geniused would compare the 2. The only established fact we have on the Inglis case we have is he bruised her in a misguided attempt to help her. Have a read of the Lui case, it is on the other end of the scale. The Ferguson's and the Inglis's of the world are nothing like the Lui's of the world.

 

[Miller was a legend]

1. If the organisation has broken its own rules then it is their fault, not Inglis's fault.
2. He is not pillaging anything. He is taking money offered to him. Charity sponsorship is common. The entire WA cricket team is sponsored by a charity.
3. I don't know about Thurston specifically but I guarantee Inglis is not the only one. There would be many pro athletes in the NRL and other codes who get paid for charity work.
4. Inglis is a champion for the indigenous community as his charity work does not begin and end with this organisation. He does plenty of unpaid work with schools and other organisations.

Inglis is nothing like Lui. Only someone completely ignorant or completely geniused would compare the 2. The only established fact we have on the Inglis case we have is he bruised her in a misguided attempt to help her. Have a read of the Lui case, it is on the other end of the scale. The Ferguson's and the Inglis's of the world are nothing like the Lui's of the world.

You still don't fugging get it do you?

 

[The Elephant In The room]

1. If the organisation has broken its own rules then it is their fault, not Inglis's fault.
2. He is not pillaging anything. He is taking money offered to him. Charity sponsorship is common. The entire WA cricket team is sponsored by a charity.
3. I don't know about Thurston specifically but I guarantee Inglis is not the only one. There would be many pro athletes in the NRL and other codes who get paid for charity work.
4. Inglis is a champion for the indigenous community as his charity work does not begin and end with this organisation. He does plenty of unpaid work with schools and other organisations.

Inglis is nothing like Lui. Only someone completely ignorant or completely geniused would compare the 2. The only established fact we have on the Inglis case we have is he bruised her in a misguided attempt to help her. Have a read of the Lui case, it is on the other end of the scale. The Ferguson's and the Inglis's of the world are nothing like the Lui's of the world.

Ah the old Lance Armstrong defense. "I know I was cheating, but I'm pretty sure others were doing it, so that makes it ok right?"

 

[soc123_au]

What a joke. Taxpayer funds set aside for health being used to pay an elite athlete for doing who knows what. Inglis doesn't strike me as the sharpest tool in the box & quite likely doesn't realise where the funds are coming from. The power brokers at the Rabbits & the NRL certainly would though. I have more of a problem with them than Inglis himself.

 

[BunniesMan]

You are a first class f**kwit!

Apart from being a client, what the f**k would you know about how charities are run, their constitutions or restrictions on use of funding.

Shut the f**k up and focus on your centre link income

You've descended to unnecessary personal abuse which automatically makes you the loser in this argument.

If the charity has violated any restrictions it is the fault of the people who made those decisions. Not Inglis. It is not his responsibility to audit them.

Will be interesting to see if JT, Third-man or some of the other more outspoken aboriginal players come out in the media and give it to GI over this. In fact, they'll lose a bit if my respect if they don't because the low life deserves to have his name dragged through the mud over it. No doubt his supporters will arrange a timely photo shoot (paid of course) with a homeless man tomorrow for the papers.

I guarantee not a single NRL player will say a single word critical about this as it is a nonissue. If they do I'll quit the LU forums for a month.

 

[BunniesMan]

You still don't fugging get it do you?

I do get it. I get that Greg Inglis is not a criminal and that he took money willingly given to him in a type of business transaction that is common in the charity world.

 

[soc123_au]

The Ferguson's and the Inglis's of the world are nothing like the Lui's of the world.

Fergo? Really? What was he doing, protecting her flange from the cold? Inglis has redeeming qualities, but Fergo is a merkin of the highest order.

 

[Miller was a legend]

You've descended to unnecessary personal abuse which automatically makes you the loser in this argument.

If the charity has violated any restrictions it is the fault of the people who made those decisions. Not Inglis. It is not his responsibility to audit them.


I guarantee not a single NRL player will say a single word critical about this as it is a nonissue. If they do I'll quit the LU forums for a month.

No I have descended to calling you exactly what you are.

You do not work in the industry, apart from the dole line, yet you post in here thinking you have some knowledge that gives you some authority to tell people they are wrong.

All you have is you love of your club, the player plays for that club, so you defend this. If it was Brett Stewart you would be calling him slummy and his club too. Deny that all you like, we know better.

You mate are wrong on so many levels of this argument. And yes I know, I am in the industry at high level and this STINKS to high heaven!

Apart from wrong doing by the charity, what you don't understand is that morally it is bullshit for Ingliss or his management to do this when clubs and players all over the NRL give back to charities and donate their time, face etc. It STINKS weather you wish to accept it or not.

Now stop talking bullshit!

 

[El Diablo]

If they do I'll quit the LU forums for a month.

you already quit

I'm writing this while trying not to cry.

Part of me thinks that is the single most pathetic sentence ever written in the history of the internet. But another part of me knows how much LU has meant to me over the last 3 years. Hopefully after reading this (if anyone bothers) you might understand me a bit better as I go off into the sunset.

3 years ago I was a 125kg unemployed borderline recluse. I would easily go a week or two without leaving the house. I hated when my friends dragged me out of the house. I wasn't depressed, I was just content to spend day after day on the internet while ignoring my problems. It was during this time that I stumbled onto these forums during yet another long monotonous day on the computer.

I love rugby league and saw a rugby league forum as another great tool to help me pass the time and help me procrastinate instead of working on my issues. It become a refuge from a very shitty period in my life. As time went on and I posted more and more I began to see 'BunniesMan' as a character to role play. I enjoyed writing and so I started writing 'BM' as a person who while loosely based on the real me was exaggerated and enhanced to live the life I wanted to live.

I consciously exaggerated him towards an obnoxious angle because I genuinely did not want people to like the fake me or to make people develop positive feelings for anything made up as I thought that would be crossing the line. So instead of just making him be some loser from Liverpool, I made him an arrogant silver spoon fed spoiled brat from Mosman.

But boy did things get out of control. LU become the main part of my day. While anything I wrote about external matters (from sports to politics or anything else) were my real opinions, the personal stuff I wrote about myself was just layer upon layer of exaggeration and lies to feed the monster some forum users were seemingly obsessed in.

Eventually it all came out and the dislike many had for me exploded into an unending torrent of vile loathing and abuse from some individuals. In my biased opinion the reaction I received from some was out of all proportion to the sins I committed.

In the end what were my real crimes? I made up some dumb lies about my personal life and I strongly and passionately and unwaveringly believed in my favourite teams and players. I didn't lie to steal (eg convince people to meet me and then rob them), I didn't lie to make people emotionally invested (eg something genuinely disgusting like making up a cancer battle, death in the family etc). And I never went after and unnecessarily abused or bullied anyone.

With that in mind I think the way some treat me is unfair, undeserving and completely out of all proportion to what I did wrong. I think the bullying and abuse and unending ridicule is so much worse than the worst of anything I've done.

For quite a long time after that I happily continued on without being overly bothered by all of that. I mostly left the NRL section, limiting most of my posting to the FFB, Cricket and Soccer where in my opinion most people are far more decent. Cricket eventually became just as bad as NRL to me. But I still enjoyed FFB. I loved the Mafia games. I also enjoyed hearing all sorts of random conversations, from the weird to the wonderful, in Superthread.

But eventually it all just got too much of me. I became human, I felt the criticism (mostly still unwarranted and unfair IMO) and I got tired of it. For a long time I thought the haters would get over all the drama which is now almost TWO years ago but it is very clear some people will never treat me like a normal person. Enough people want me to go away permanently. It is emotionally exhausting. You have won.

And what I've realised very recently is my life is in a better place than it was back when I started here and I don't need this refuge anymore. In a weird way I think this place has been some sort of strange therapy because it has helped me get my life on track and I'm very thankful for that. At the age of 23 I have my whole life ahead of me. I'm starting 2014 at 94 kg (the smallest I've been since high school), a job (that's a first for me), $5000 in the bank (more than has ever been there) and a girl that might like me (that's another first) and I even have a bit of a tan (that's a first since early high school, and a bit of a difference from the famous photo floating around of me). I'm going to move to Melbourne soon to pursue my dream career (my real job will be a real estate agent but I'll be doing that to support my real passion, my writing, and my goal of moving to New York City one day) and for the first time in a long time I'm looking forward to a New Years Eve because for the first time in a long time I'm excited about what the New Year has in store for me.

I won't miss any of the full on haters. But there are a number of people I've grown to like a great deal. While I don't think I've made any friends on here because I don't think anyone really likes me I have enjoyed reading what a lot of you have to say. People like Dani (probably the only person who never said anything mean to me, you're incredibly nice), JM, Apey, Monk (people who are so funny, entertaining and whose posts I most cared about reading), Soc (even little things like inviting me to the Fantasy league meant a great deal to me) and Mis (your contribution in making the FFB Mafia tradition what it is gave me so much enjoyment over many months, at times they were the highlight of my day). There are others but being liked by me is probably not seen as a good thing so I won't make any more of you feel bad.

To the people I mentioned above as well as everybody else who has not been unrelentingly horrible to me I wish you all the best of luck in your future. I hope you achieve all your dreams and I hope you are all happy.

If anybody is still reading I thank you for making it this far and sorry for taking up your time with something as obnoxious as a forum retirement thread. But for all the arrogant wanker things I've done I have never made an entire thread about myself before today.

Good bye and good luck, FFB.

 

[Pete Cash]

It's a bit concerning that tax dollars appear to be going towards a tpa for souths.

 

[Miller was a legend]

Wish he would just go already!

 

[BunniesMan]

Fergo? Really? What was he doing, protecting her flange from the cold? Inglis has redeeming qualities, but Fergo is a merkin of the highest order.

I wasn't commenting on Fergo's merkiness or lack of. I was commenting that not everybody without a spotless record is comparable to the worst of the worst. What Lui did was disgusting and about as bad as it gets. What Fergo did was wrong but on the other end of the scale. What Inglis did was misguided and regrettable but not even in the same universe as Lui.

This hyperbole and these false comparisons is the same logic that leads to idiots comparing Aussie politicians to Hitler.

No I have descended to calling you exactly what you are.

You do not work in the industry, apart from the dole line, yet you post in here thinking you have some knowledge that gives you some authority to tell people they are wrong.

All you have is you love of your club, the player plays for that club, so you defend this. If it was Brett Stewart you would be calling him slummy and his club too. Deny that all you like, we know better.

You mate are wrong on so many levels of this argument. And yes I know, I am in the industry at high level and this STINKS to high heaven!

Apart from wrong doing by the charity, what you don't understand is that morally it is bullshit for Ingliss or his management to do this when clubs and players all over the NRL give back to charities and donate their time, face etc. It STINKS weather you wish to accept it or not.

Now stop talking bullshit!

The organisation may have brokens its rules. What they have apparently done stinks plenty. What Inglis has done does not stink to anybody except the naive and ignorant.

You don't need to be an expert in charities to know investment in marketing is common. Spending money to make money is common. If you know as much as you say you know you would see that Inglis has done nothing wrong.

As for donating time, he does donate time. He does plenty free of charge. He mentors indigenous students at Sydney Uni, he reads to school kids, he offers prizes including spending time with him to disadvantaged kids that meet attendance/behaviour benchmarks in school. He donates plenty. This financial arrangement does not mean he doesn't do anything else.