Gould the Master Spin Doctor

[Scootsie]

How does Phil Gould get a job commentating when he clearly has so many conflicts of interest?

I‘m not a Storm fan by any Means, but Gould has spent 10 minutes trying to convince the audience that the ladder leading Storm ‘are out of sync’.

Talk about mind games, but it is totally unprofessional and a bad look for the NRL.

 

[JamesRustle]

I heard the old merkin say they should revert to old fashioned chalk for line markings, so a cloud of chalk would indicate the ball was grounded on the line.... um you dumb old merkin, by that measure, a chalk cloud would occur if an arm or shoulder and not the ball tou he'd the line.. and it would be useless in the wet.

Time this dinosaur dropped the mic and farked off to bulldogs. He ain't got the balls to get on the commission and implement some of his better ideas, but he is so far past commentating and positively promoting the game on TV.

 

[PANTHERMIKE]

How does Phil Gould get a job commentating when he clearly has so many conflicts of interest?

I‘m not a Storm fan by any Means, but Gould has spent 10 minutes trying to convince the audience that the ladder leading Storm ‘are out of sync’.

Talk about mind games, but it is totally unprofessional and a bad look for the NRL.

Didnt hear, but is he wrong?

 

[McNulty]

He is spot on.

 

[Fangs]

Well he is right for one. Melbourne looked absolutely dogshit last night.

He has done this for years so I'm used to it. He used to hammer Penrith all the time in the 2000s and ride the Roosters home every week.

Penrith got pumped by Newcastle in 2011 and he wrote a sympathetic article towards our club in the SMH. It was bloody strange reading.

1 week later he was announced as GM of the club.

 

[Perth Red]

Sucks being out of sink and still being in the #1 spot lol

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Having to comment on other teams can also backfire on him because it provides motivation when they play the dogs.

 

[Fangs]

Sucks being out of sink and still being in the #1 spot lol

To quote Gus, it's a soft comp.

Easily the softest comp since 2016.

 

[Scootsie]

Well I’m gonna be listening to see how he builds speculation around Bullodogs finals rivals.
They’ve got Dolphins and Se Eagles in the next few weeks, so what’s the bet he’ll be trying to stitch up those sides by manufacturing some doubts about their play.

 

[Munky]

To quote Gus, it's a soft comp.

Easily the softest comp since 2016.

Imo 2017 was a soft as f**k comp with team 8 making the GF.

That Storm team though was f**king awesome though and would murder a huge amount of premiership teams of the era.

 

[Apey]

I don't think he's wrong at all here.

He is the man of 100 agendas though and it's funny when a few of them come in conflict with each other.

 

[Reflector]

I don't think he's wrong at all here.

He is the man of 100 agendas though and it's funny when a few of them come in conflict with each other.

He gets it right a lot of times, but his arrogance, his agendas and his ability to play Captain Hindsight (especially in Origin) all work against him.

 

[Saxon]

Has way too much influence, and the conflicts of interest are significant. The worst thing is that he uses that influence to try and mould the game to the vision he has for it.

 

[Fangs]

Imo 2017 was a soft as f**k comp with team 8 making the GF.

That Storm team though was f**king awesome though and would murder a huge amount of premiership teams of the era.

Perhaps perhaps. 2016 was a much better final for sure.

It's been a disappointing year of footy in terms of the elite teams. No one is owning this premiership yet.

 

[10$ Ferret]

He rarely gets it right. When he does its hindsight and usually something someone else has said first.
Should not be allowed in the RL media, because of his affiliation with the Bulldogs, not to mentioned because he is an absolute arrogant tosser

 

[10$ Ferret]

Didnt hear, but is he wrong?

no but my 90 yr old mother in law can see that they are a bit off and she didn't bet on the game

 

[Vee]

The worst thing is that he uses that influence to try and mould the game to the vision he has for it

... at that moment in time, it changes from one moment to the next.

 

[Warrimoo3]

Gus is always up to something. It reminds me of the story that Jason Taylor likes to tell about Gould. When Taylor was playing for North’s in 1996 he was on a hot goal kicking streak of 32 from 33 including a 9 from 9 . That night he was in a conversation with a small group of people and Gus joined in. Halfway through the conversation Gus pauses and puts his face up near Taylor’a and says “You can’t kick ‘em all you know. “He then continued the chat as if nothing had happened.

When Gould was leaving he drove past Taylor , stopped His car, wound down the window and said “You can’t kick ‘me all you know. “Norths were due to play the Gould coached Roosters the following weekend.

Sure enough Taylor’s 1st kick hit the post. He started to think about what Gould had said and started to question whether Gus had got into his head.

Gould 1 Taylor nil. Now they’re working together.

I’m sure the alleged Bulldogs’ secret dossier on Gerard Sutton as reported by Telegraph sport was a deliberate plant to get inside the heads of the officials and it’s working . The Bulldogs are starting to get the 50/50 calls from Gerard Sutton for the first time since the Good Friday bottle throwing match against Souths.