Honest Willie...LOL

[innsaneink]

Willie right not to toe the line

Congratulations to big Willie Mason for having the courage to stand up and tell the truth about the injury he sustained playing for the Kangaroos against the US in Philadelphia last month.

Mason has no doubt the injury was caused by the artificial turf the guys were made to play on, giving a further boost to the argument that the game was poorly organised.

Mason has had surgery on his right foot after separating the first and second metatarsal bones and rupturing the ligaments that hold them together. He is expected to be sidelined until June.

The silence has been deafening from the NRL and other media organisations since Mason's comments. It is the last thing they wanted anyone to say publicly.

I applaud Mason and thank him for his honesty. Fans want honesty in reporting. Not misrepresentations and agendas. Just the facts.

Mason and the Bulldogs are entitled to heavy compensation for this injury. I would support any claim they made against the NRL, whether for financial restitution or concessions under the salary cap to replace Mason and injured teammate Mark O'Meley for the time they are unavailable.

Our elite blokes play too much football as it is, without subjecting them to a game such as this, at the end of a long season, on an unsuitable surface. To pass it off by saying injuries are part of the game is treating the players with disrespect.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/League/Rahrahs-put-us-to-shame/2004/12/18/1103312787494.html

What a suck.

Mason .......................honesty?? :lol:

We all know Masons good deed stories so I wont re-hash em.

How the hell can Mason tell it was the artificial surface that contributed to his injury?
Whos to say it wouldnt have happened on a grass surface?

Plenty of other players there that night got through the game with no problems.

I wasnt aware Willie became a doctor, mustve been between the GF celebrations and leaving for the tri-nations

I thought I heard Mason say hes not talking to anyone (media) anymore. :lol: Yeah right!

Gould thinks Mason/Bulldogs should be heavily compensated huh?
Geee...if that happened it could set a precedent, couldnt it Gus. Bet he wasnt thinking along those lines.



Gould has the hide to say.......To pass it off by saying injuries are part of the game is treating the players with disrespect..............


Mason compensated????


Mason should be fined and rapped over the knuckles
for the contempt he and others showed during and before that game, for the disrespect he showed his country.

And why would the NRL have clains made against them? I wouldve thought if a claim was madeagainst anyone it would be the ARL.
Ooooh looks like god himself makes mistakes.

 

[Detox]

#-o Being honost about an injury?

They are entitled to heavy compensation? #-o

 

[Timmah]

*Swims away from pathetic bait* :roll:

 

[Rusty]

Goulds got his head so far up Willie's arse it aint funny :roll:

 

[innsaneink]

*Swims away from pathetic bait* :roll:

Translation= You agree with every word I wrote.

 

[Timmah]

#-o

Sorry ink, my response to the whole issue is in the other thread mate. IMO this is just another thread launching one on Canterbury. Don't see why we need multiples on it.

 

[innsaneink]

#-o

Sorry ink, my response to the whole issue is in the other thread mate. IMO this is just another thread launching one on Canterbury. Don't see why we need multiples on it.

That thread you posted in has nothing to do with Goulds article.
Goulds article has two topics, one about Perths super 14 inclusion and the other about Phils love for Mason & Willies diagnosis of his injury.
Everyone was and is replying to the union part so I seperated it.
Your paranoid, my post is not about the Dogs, its about Goulds opinion mainly, and Mason partially.

 

[Timmah]

What a suck.

Mason .......................honesty??

We all know Masons good deed stories so I wont re-hash em.

How the hell can Mason tell it was the artificial surface that contributed to his injury?
Whos to say it wouldnt have happened on a grass surface?

Plenty of other players there that night got through the game with no problems.

I wasnt aware Willie became a doctor, mustve been between the GF celebrations and leaving for the tri-nations

I thought I heard Mason say hes not talking to anyone (media) anymore. Yeah right!

Gould thinks Mason/Bulldogs should be heavily compensated huh?
Geee...if that happened it could set a precedent, couldnt it Gus. Bet he wasnt thinking along those lines.



Gould has the hide to say.......To pass it off by saying injuries are part of the game is treating the players with disrespect..............


Mason compensated????


Mason should be fined and rapped over the knuckles
for the contempt he and others showed during and before that game, for the disrespect he showed his country.

And why would the NRL have clains made against them? I wouldve thought if a claim was madeagainst anyone it would be the ARL.
Ooooh looks like god himself makes mistakes.

I counted Mason mentioned a lot more times. Seems to me you're better at spinning words and opinion than Gus himself because I can see that post was more or less aimed at Mason and the punishment he should receive in your not so humble opinion.

Your paranoid, my post is not about the Dogs, its about Goulds opinion mainly, and Mason partially.

:lol: whatever you say ink...

 

[Matt M]

Gould is really starting to go insane.

Injuries ARE part of football, it has been that way all the time and will always be that way, how the hell does this treat players with disrespect? If we didn't want injuries then they wouldn't play football would they? I'll just quote Wayne Bennett here "They're footballers, they play football"

Why should the NRL or anyone compensate the Bulldogs? Injuries happen. It had nothing to do with artificial turf, if anything it had more to do with Mason treating this game as a joke and not playing properly. The turf that they used is far newer technology than the old sort of turf, it is basically the same as grass. How does Mason know anything about what caused his injury? I started to grow soem respect for Mason until this. What if next season the Roosters get an injury at, lets say Townsville, will the Roosters be looking for compensation from the Cowboys?

I don't think the season being too long is as simple as some people make it seem. The British players have more games than the Australians and they aren't complaining. The main problem the Australian players had this year was that they were away from home for so long, something which can be fixed up with different fixturing.

I usually have agreed with what Gould says in his articles but its more and more often now that he comes out with rubbish like this.

 

[God-King Dean]

Gould just wants to get in the paper, so he's just saying something to stupid so he can. Way if Gould :lol:

& what Mason said is very very stupid

 

[Big Mick]

GOD!

Your joking.

what a stupid idea.

Gould will adequately compensate Willie when he heads to the Roosters in 2006 however.

 

[KFC]

You got it Big Mick. The suck up is stepping up in intensity.

 

[Big Mick]

I think Gould wants Willie's willie ;-)

 

[innsaneink]

They better be careful if they sign him.....they may just find theyve signed Craig Fitzgibbon again.

 

[Timmah]

Willie's already won his Clive Churchill and would rather stay at a club that doesn't choke 3 years running. Thanks anyway

 

[Raider_69]

Gould will adequately compensate Willie when he heads to the Roosters in 2006 however.

exactly my thoughts
watch for some salary cap victums to emerge and Willie Mason to be signed to a bucketload by the chooks

 

[Southernsaint]

They better be careful if they sign him.....they may just find theyve signed Craig Fitzgibbon again.

LOL, two "Raw Boned Lads"...

 

[wittyfan]

Apparently the astro-turf is virtually like grass so I don't think Willie's reason really washes. :?

 

[God-King Dean]

Could explain how the hell the material could effect the insides of his body? #-o

 

[RainMan]

Gould will adequately compensate Willie when he heads to the Roosters in 2006 however.

Its a done deal supposedly.