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Delboy

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As someone else said, Dawn Fench ran a club that finished 11th, has crazy back ended contracts, is being sued for millions, possibly asked to move on.

But is good enough to run the whole yawnion show, and Fitzdickbrain takes aim at rugby league. Amazing
 
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Sloppy seconds again for the rah rah with Castle and now producing a near identical women's league. If you took out all the thieving of IP from rugby league since 1996, union would be a hollow shell with the name William Webb Ellis stamped on it (another myth too for the record).
 
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axl rose

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https://tinyurl.com/ybuyyus2

Now NSW Government wants to offer $40m to NRL clubs

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Well, specifically, that $40 million is going to NRL clubs, to refurbish their gyms, and expand their facilities!

O'Keefe reports that the $40 million is "expected to be handed over to six clubs ... to help clubs build 'Centres of Excellence' . . . It is expected South Sydney will be handed money to build at Heffron Park in Maroubra, Canterbury Bulldogs at Belmore, Sydney Roosters at Moore Park, Cronulla at Shark Park and Newcastle Knights at Hunter Stadium."

I have no clue why I appear to be close to a lone voice on this, but let me say it loud and proud, regardless.

Friends, this is a DISGRACE.

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In 2013 a 20 million dollar training facility for the ARU funded by the NSW Government and not a peep out of him.


Historic funding for Australian Rugby for world class development centre


Australian Rugby Union today announced it will develop a world-class training facility and community sporting hub in Sydney, following a $20 million funding commitment from the Federal Coalition and the NSW State Government.

The facility – to be known as ‘Australian Rugby Development Centre’ – will be located at TG Millner Field, Marsfield, in Sydney’s North West.

https://tinyurl.com/yacqe54x
 
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Hold on to your hats, sports fans, this is getting more outrageous by the day. You will be aware, I know, that there is an issue at the moment over whether or not it is a good idea for the State Government to go through with its plans to knock over three relatively new Stadiums – at Parramatta, Homebush and Moore Park – and rebuild them at a cost of $2.5 billion.

The pro-bulldozer mob have on their side all of Alan Jones, the wider SCG Trust, Venues NSW, most of News Limited and most importantly the controlling half of the NSW Government. The other half think, to use the words of one: "It's the dumbest f--king idea I've ever heard. It screams largesse and the public won't buy it."And while I have respectfully asked Premier Gladys Berejiklian three times now, to justify her claim that the $2 billion outlay will be made back in two years, as yet there is only radio silence ... and the rather unpleasant guffawing of economists who point out that with that kind of a return, private equity would be rushing to finance it, and there would be no need to call on the public purse. And even the government's own figures do them down, as originally revealed by my colleague Jacob Saulwick, concerning the insanity of the SFS project alone, which noted the advice of Infrastructure NSW that there would be "no economic benefit to the state of NSW ..."
  • But still, we have not come to the most stunning development of the last two days. For in the middle of all this – which has included Sydney City Council, followed by Randwick and Waverly Council, passing strong motions against the stadium rebuild – we have it on the authority of Channel Nine's state political reporter, Chris O'Keefe, that the NSW Government is about to make another announcement concerning their sporting largesse, concerning an allocation of $40 million to sport.


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    Venue of contention: Aerial views of Allianz Stadium in Moore Park. Photo: Wolter Peeters
    Well, specifically, that $40 million is going to NRL clubs, to refurbish their gyms, and expand their facilities!

    O'Keefe reports that the $40 million is "expected to be handed over to six clubs ... to help clubs build 'Centres of Excellence' . . . It is expected South Sydney will be handed money to build at Heffron Park in Maroubra, Canterbury Bulldogs at Belmore, Sydney Roosters at Moore Park, Cronulla at Shark Park and Newcastle Knights at Hunter Stadium."

    I have no clue why I appear to be close to a lone voice on this, but let me say it loud and proud, regardless.

    Friends, this is a DISGRACE.

    To make a statement of the bleeding bloody obvious, the NSW Government has no business handing out taxpayer funds to elite sporting BUSINESESS, that make their own money already – the NRL itself is a billion dollar business – at a time when community sport is crying out for resources!

    And yes of course the government is dressing up their largesse with the plan that the new centres of excellence will also be open to local communities.

    No, really! You'll wander along, and right next to you, as you do the leg press, Greg Inglis will be doing bench presses! In the manner of classic trickle-down economics – let us spend billions knocking down and rebuilding elite stadiums, and the wealth will trickle all the way down to struggle street – this has it, that by putting this money into NRL clubs, the poorer people will benefit, too.

    Who is going to stop this madness?

    Instead of yet more trickle-down nonsense, if this money is earmarked for sport, why not put it directly to where it is most needed? Instead of putting that money in the middle of money-making operations that are already well resourced, why not put it to one of the "674 priority community sport projects" recently identified by the NSW Office of Sport, which are CRYING OUT for funds?

    Netball courts! Tennis courts! Basketball courts! Green fields! Velodromes! Skateboard rinks!

    Just how obvious is it that if the NSW Government has a spare $40 million to give to sport, these are the kind of projects that need it, NOT elite sport? I have told the story before, of how at Northern Suburbs Basketball Association, a couple of decades ago, we were able to raise, with the help of North Sydney Council, and a little from the NSW Government, $3 million to build the Crows Nest Sports Centre with four basketball courts, that can also be used for netball and many other community activities – that go from 6 am to 10.45 pm. It is a fantastic resource, totally self-sustaining as it is now funded by our 5500 members, of all ages, from 5 years old to 85 years-old. As well resourced as it is, it now has a long waiting list.

    Why can't that be the model for community sport across the state?

    But $40 million of taxpayers' money so that rugby league clubs can upgrade to having "Centres of Excellence?" It is madness and electoral suicide – and more and more in the NSW Government know it. Let us see if sanity might prevail sometime between now and next Tuesday, when the Premier is set to announce the $40 million hand-out.

    And let us see if she will still maintain the demonstrable nonsense of the $2 billion being paid back in two years.

    Who stops this madness gets to be Premier – and if it is Ms Berejklian herself, all good!

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...o-offer-40m-to-nrl-clubs-20171213-h046tb.html
 
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Hold on to your hats, sports fans, this is getting more outrageous by the day. You will be aware, I know, that there is an issue at the moment over whether or not it is a good idea for the State Government to go through with its plans to knock over three relatively new Stadiums – at Parramatta, Homebush and Moore Park – and rebuild them at a cost of $2.5 billion.

The pro-bulldozer mob have on their side all of Alan Jones, the wider SCG Trust, Venues NSW, most of News Limited and most importantly the controlling half of the NSW Government. The other half think, to use the words of one: "It's the dumbest f--king idea I've ever heard. It screams largesse and the public won't buy it."And while I have respectfully asked Premier Gladys Berejiklian three times now, to justify her claim that the $2 billion outlay will be made back in two years, as yet there is only radio silence ... and the rather unpleasant guffawing of economists who point out that with that kind of a return, private equity would be rushing to finance it, and there would be no need to call on the public purse. And even the government's own figures do them down, as originally revealed by my colleague Jacob Saulwick, concerning the insanity of the SFS project alone, which noted the advice of Infrastructure NSW that there would be "no economic benefit to the state of NSW ..."
  • But still, we have not come to the most stunning development of the last two days. For in the middle of all this – which has included Sydney City Council, followed by Randwick and Waverly Council, passing strong motions against the stadium rebuild – we have it on the authority of Channel Nine's state political reporter, Chris O'Keefe, that the NSW Government is about to make another announcement concerning their sporting largesse, concerning an allocation of $40 million to sport.


    1513169525544.jpg

    Venue of contention: Aerial views of Allianz Stadium in Moore Park. Photo: Wolter Peeters
    Well, specifically, that $40 million is going to NRL clubs, to refurbish their gyms, and expand their facilities!

    O'Keefe reports that the $40 million is "expected to be handed over to six clubs ... to help clubs build 'Centres of Excellence' . . . It is expected South Sydney will be handed money to build at Heffron Park in Maroubra, Canterbury Bulldogs at Belmore, Sydney Roosters at Moore Park, Cronulla at Shark Park and Newcastle Knights at Hunter Stadium."

    I have no clue why I appear to be close to a lone voice on this, but let me say it loud and proud, regardless.

    Friends, this is a DISGRACE.

    To make a statement of the bleeding bloody obvious, the NSW Government has no business handing out taxpayer funds to elite sporting BUSINESESS, that make their own money already – the NRL itself is a billion dollar business – at a time when community sport is crying out for resources!

    And yes of course the government is dressing up their largesse with the plan that the new centres of excellence will also be open to local communities.

    No, really! You'll wander along, and right next to you, as you do the leg press, Greg Inglis will be doing bench presses! In the manner of classic trickle-down economics – let us spend billions knocking down and rebuilding elite stadiums, and the wealth will trickle all the way down to struggle street – this has it, that by putting this money into NRL clubs, the poorer people will benefit, too.

    Who is going to stop this madness?

    Instead of yet more trickle-down nonsense, if this money is earmarked for sport, why not put it directly to where it is most needed? Instead of putting that money in the middle of money-making operations that are already well resourced, why not put it to one of the "674 priority community sport projects" recently identified by the NSW Office of Sport, which are CRYING OUT for funds?

    Netball courts! Tennis courts! Basketball courts! Green fields! Velodromes! Skateboard rinks!

    Just how obvious is it that if the NSW Government has a spare $40 million to give to sport, these are the kind of projects that need it, NOT elite sport? I have told the story before, of how at Northern Suburbs Basketball Association, a couple of decades ago, we were able to raise, with the help of North Sydney Council, and a little from the NSW Government, $3 million to build the Crows Nest Sports Centre with four basketball courts, that can also be used for netball and many other community activities – that go from 6 am to 10.45 pm. It is a fantastic resource, totally self-sustaining as it is now funded by our 5500 members, of all ages, from 5 years old to 85 years-old. As well resourced as it is, it now has a long waiting list.

    Why can't that be the model for community sport across the state?

    But $40 million of taxpayers' money so that rugby league clubs can upgrade to having "Centres of Excellence?" It is madness and electoral suicide – and more and more in the NSW Government know it. Let us see if sanity might prevail sometime between now and next Tuesday, when the Premier is set to announce the $40 million hand-out.

    And let us see if she will still maintain the demonstrable nonsense of the $2 billion being paid back in two years.

    Who stops this madness gets to be Premier – and if it is Ms Berejklian herself, all good!

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...o-offer-40m-to-nrl-clubs-20171213-h046tb.html
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Peter, why in the world should the Premier of NSW be answering to you, who the f**k are you? ..... just some loud mouth do gooder.

On behalf of my vote that I am FORCED to make in this FREE country, I'll be voting against anything you are for, hell, even if it's pro life, as I know there would be some elitist catch involved to protect you and your like minded moronic "friends". Get stuffed!
 

Delboy

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Just saw an example of what NSW has to look forward should the Labour left win an election, they are currently standing in front of banners that read " schools and hospitals before stadiums". It's all about point scoring, so frustrating and led by the left elite

This is despite being aware that stadium expenditure is 1% of the total to be spent over the same period on education and health. Nothing was done under their last reign, they are just political machines. I remember Bob Carr saying that the Sydney to Brisbane road would be dual carriage within 10 years of his election as a core promise. Repeated at each election and nothing done until they were out of office

Could be a sad day if they get back in for the states future and economy.
 

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