Brett Morris Best Club

[Dragsters]

He could very well be 100% right but what else is he going to say whilst still contracted to them.

I saw the interview and thought exactly this...

 

[since77]

other teams have a worse record the last decade

Dude. You sound like Brian Johnson last year when he gave Mary a pass mark for 2019.

 

[Old Timer]

Good luck to B Moz and I wish him well and hope he goes out a winner.
If he as a mature player thinks that what he has in front of him at 33 is better than that he had when 19 then he is the best judge not us.
We could have had him as a 1 club player and decided not to, so he owes us nothing as was the case with is father.
A glorious thing it was to watch him tear away for a length of the field try and then give an attacking player 10m - 15m start and real him in before our 20m line.
Our club decided that was somehow no longer required.

 

[VodkaSaint]

Good luck to B Moz and I wish him well and hope he goes out a winner.
If he as a mature player thinks that what he has in front of him at 33 is better than that he had when 19 then he is the best judge not us.
We could have had him as a 1 club player and decided not to, so he owes us nothing as was the case with is father.
A glorious thing it was to watch him tear away for a length of the field try and then give an attacking player 10m - 15m start and real him in before our 20m line.
Our club decided that was somehow no longer required.

Im so dirty at our club and yet Im still here

 

[possm]

Good luck to B Moz and I wish him well and hope he goes out a winner.
If he as a mature player thinks that what he has in front of him at 33 is better than that he had when 19 then he is the best judge not us.
We could have had him as a 1 club player and decided not to, so he owes us nothing as was the case with is father.
A glorious thing it was to watch him tear away for a length of the field try and then give an attacking player 10m - 15m start and real him in before our 20m line.
Our club decided that was somehow no longer required.

Peter Doust and Mary were the ones responsible for B Mos and then Merrin leaving the club. Both decisions big mistakes in my opinion.

 

[VodkaSaint]

Peter Doust and Mary were the ones responsible for B Mos and then Merrin leaving the club. Both decisions big mistakes in my opinion.

They promised them more than they can give then sold them out, back stabbed them is what I call it

 

[Gareth67]

I just sooooo glad that the roosters finally got their man , more so after their recent run of dud signings - Cronk , Keary , Tedesco etc. etc . etc.

 

[blue bags]

I just sooooo glad that the roosters finally got their man , more so after their recent run of dud signings - Cronk , Keary , Tedesco etc. etc . etc.

fitzgibon, gourley, flanegan, craig wing , and so on

 

[Forbes Creek Dragons]

He could very well be 100% right but what else is he going to say whilst still contracted to them.

Hit the nail on the head

 

[This Year?]

It's only a matter of time until a Roosters fan sees this thread and uses the salt from it to add flavour to their back to back premiership with one of our favourite sons.

 

[SBD82]

Peter Doust and Mary were the ones responsible for B Mos and then Merrin leaving the club. Both decisions big mistakes in my opinion.

I’m pretty sure it’s millwards fault.

 

[True_Believer]

I’m pretty sure it’s millwards fault.

He is the Anti-Christ after all...

 

[muzby]

He is the Anti-Christ after all...

Hey! Don’t bring me into this..

 

[SGMax]

I'm getting tired of people blaming the club for forcing out B.Morris and Merrin.
Brett was tried at fullback and didn't quite fit. The Bulldogs came and offered him fullback money and he left.
Trent was offered the biggest deal for a forward in Dragons history and left because Panthers offered more.
Josh is the only one that was unwanted (by Bennett?).

 

[Old Timer]

I'm getting tired of people blaming the club for forcing out B.Morris and Merrin.
Brett was tried at fullback and didn't quite fit. The Bulldogs came and offered him fullback money and he left.
Trent was offered the biggest deal for a forward in Dragons history and left because Panthers offered more.
Josh is the only one that was unwanted (by Bennett?).

My understanding is that wasn't just about FB money or the FB position because B Moz and others took pay cuts or maybe if not cuts didn't get upgraded because of Gasnier.
Gasnier shit on the club by going early and it rightfully left a very bitter taste in our very loyal players mouths.
B Moz was the greatest winger in the world and had been for some time and was our greatest strike weapon and well worthy of an upgraded contract but the club baulked and came up with a limp excuse. You cannot absolve them from the mess they created in losing B Moz.

Re Merrin the statement of the biggest contract ever offered for a forward in the clubs history was to try an invoke images of Proven, Ryan, Raper etc all from an era where SFA money was paid and that was a deliberate ploy. The simple fact is that he was a good player and making his way towards rep football in a time where big money deals are the norm and we didn't offer enough and used emotional tactics / arguments to try & defend it.

If the club had really wanted to retain their services then the club is guilty of penny pinching on both counts.

 

[LINESPEED]

It's only a matter of time until a Roosters fan sees this thread and uses the salt from it to add flavour to their back to back premiership with one of our favourite sons.

Ah yes, but we’ll rise again - maybe Anzac Day with our new coach

The Rorters fans are gifted their air of Entitlement by an Establishment (yes Toddy, on yer bike) that’s now overseen the development of the most unequal competition in memory

-via a systemically corrupted cap and transfer system and a widespread erosion of culture from mismanagement at the top.
(Thanks Beattie for doing that number on our Jack)

And we now have players blithely cherrypicking clubs most likely to deliver the ring.

No hint of course of the old district loyalty that bound a few to the old notion of striving to improve & win - and the enormous pride in that

Nah - the ring’s the thing

Just gotta have it

.... instant gratification

..... the most money & limelight for the least effort for some

And of course their stories serve an obliging & lazy media

- to the detriment of wider rugby league culture & interest level.

Fu*k the fans & especially the kids who are still predisposed to family, locality & jumper.

So on Fox we have the smirking ones extolling the likelihood of Rorters back-to-back-to-back with not a hint of ‘hey is this healthy’?

Nah - just a self congratulatory basking in the given certainty of the top 4 (with an apologetic nod to the Eagles perhaps)
...
and the rest can go fu*k themselves.

Nah the notion of favourite sons is not often reciprocated (or perhaps even understood) by the players now.

Off they go - or pushed in our case

....anyway boys we’d’ve won a couple more titles if you’d stayed

...but then again we messed it up too

 

[SGMax]

My understanding is that wasn't just about FB money or the FB position because B Moz and others took pay cuts or maybe if not cuts didn't get upgraded because of Gasnier.
Gasnier shit on the club by going early and it rightfully left a very bitter taste in our very loyal players mouths.
B Moz was the greatest winger in the world and had been for some time and was our greatest strike weapon and well worthy of an upgraded contract but the club baulked and came up with a limp excuse. You cannot absolve them from the mess they created in losing B Moz.

Re Merrin the statement of the biggest contract ever offered for a forward in the clubs history was to try an invoke images of Proven, Ryan, Raper etc all from an era where SFA money was paid and that was a deliberate ploy. The simple fact is that he was a good player and making his way towards rep football in a time where big money deals are the norm and we didn't offer enough and used emotional tactics / arguments to try & defend it.

If the club had really wanted to retain their services then the club is guilty of penny pinching on both counts.

Its true that Gasnier was selfish with his decision to leave so soon after being welcomed back but he did provide strike in the centres that was important in our march to the GF.

The contract I recall for Brett was $700K and he didn't last long as a fullback there either. He is a specialist winger and not worth anywhere near that even in today's market.

With Merrin, the contract was either $600K or $700K and was a very good offer and with the decline in Merrin's game at the Panthers was proved to be more than reasonable.

I'm not saying that the club hasn't been diabolical in forcing a few others out, but I can't cop these 2 as examples....the club could not and should not have done any more to keep them.
Sometimes you just have to let go.

 

[thebigredv]

He could very well be 100% right but what else is he going to say whilst still contracted to them.

Exactly.
Of course he'll say that. He'll probably play for another 3 clubs before he's done because it's all about the coin but then again, Roosters seem to do a lot more things right than we do, whether within the rules or otherwise.

 

[WepnutV]

He says that the Roosters are the best club he has played for. He backs this declaration up by saying "I think the people within the organisation, they want to see you succeed and do well. The professionalism, the staff we have here are incredible. I think it's the best staff I've worked under probably in my career.

"Those guys, the amount of work they put in, you want to do the same thing on the field, and you want results for those guys."

"No offence to the others, I enjoyed my time there, but I'd have to say this (Roosters) club is up there".

From this it is obvious that our club has been badly run for years even before the Bennett era. I think the business acumen of Nick Politis and the Roosters administrators are of high standing and know how to look after their players - the main component of the the big wheel that keeps churning out success for the club. If your players are well looked after and happy then they repay the club by winning games. Are our guys looked after and happy? I doubt it!

It's all money mate.. Nick politis has half a billion dollars had his disposal to hire the best of the best.. dragons don't have that luxury

 

[Dragon David]

It's all money mate.. Nick politis has half a billion dollars had his disposal to hire the best of the best.. dragons don't have that luxury

Yes, you are right. It is a money thing. So how come our organisation does not have that luxury at it's disposal the big coin to hire the other best of the best, if the Roosters has the best of the best, when we have Mr Gordon as one of our "trusted" businessmen?