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Goodbye Gus? Phil Gould to depart Penrith

The_Frog

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He was a Parramatta junior (Wentworthville) who grew up in Greystanes and went for St. George.
Back in the 70's they has a system where clubs were "married" as regards their junior districts. You had to have so many local juniors in your side. So Parramatta's juniors could join Penrith and vice versa and be regarded as local juniors. But yes, he came from Parramatta's junior system originally but Parramatta in around 1976 had little need for a young Phil Gould.
 

T-Boon

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Gould should be bared from any administrative role in the game for his role in the Ivan Cleary debacle while he was coaching Tigers. There was nothing wrong with his involvement from a club level but that brought the game into disrepute in terms of the bigger picture and he should not be allowed to step foot into headquarters due to it.
 

ACTPanthers

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Gould should be bared from any administrative role in the game for his role in the Ivan Cleary debacle while he was coaching Tigers. There was nothing wrong with his involvement from a club level but that brought the game into disrepute in terms of the bigger picture and he should not be allowed to step foot into headquarters due to it.
T-Boon: Hey Mum! Come look what I wrote! It’s sooo funny
 

The_Frog

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Wasn't Cleary returning one of the reasons Gould ended up on his way? Cleary wouldn't cop working under Gould again.
Haven't heard that. Gus was trying to get Wayne Bennett, but the board going with Cleary was indicative of a power shift away from Gould. His days at Penrith were numbered from the time Griffin was sacked really.
 

Fangs

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Gould should be bared from any administrative role in the game for his role in the Ivan Cleary debacle while he was coaching Tigers. There was nothing wrong with his involvement from a club level but that brought the game into disrepute in terms of the bigger picture and he should not be allowed to step foot into headquarters due to it.

This is la crap, as they say in France.

Will do well for NZ. Though it will be a far more limited role in comparison to his job at the Panthers.
 

Cockadoodledoo

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Haven't heard that. Gus was trying to get Wayne Bennett, but the board going with Cleary was indicative of a power shift away from Gould. His days at Penrith were numbered from the time Griffin was sacked really.

Well indirectly, as you said Gould wanted Bennett and when that didn't happen, Penrith was only going to be big enough for one one of them and it was obviously going to be the incoming coach. No way would he want to work with Gould again.
 

The_Frog

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Well indirectly, as you said Gould wanted Bennett and when that didn't happen, Penrith was only going to be big enough for one one of them and it was obviously going to be the incoming coach. No way would he want to work with Gould again.
Maybe he was assured that Gould was on the way out, but he left Wests and joined Penrith at some cost to his reputation when Gould was still there. It was Griffin and Gould who hated each others guts.
 

roofromoz

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Gould should be bared from any administrative role in the game for his role in the Ivan Cleary debacle while he was coaching Tigers. There was nothing wrong with his involvement from a club level but that brought the game into disrepute in terms of the bigger picture and he should not be allowed to step foot into headquarters due to it.

Well, they are words that are formed into sentences and that's about it.
 

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