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John Matheson

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Anyone else see this tossers column today ?

I am certainly not in the Price = God camp, but the full on attack on him today was unwarranted
 

JB

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meh, ratings must be a bit low and he's hoping a few controversial remarks can create some interest.
 
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Can't find it online at the Sunday News site, which is a shame because he would have been hammered. He doesn't seem to place his columns on line at all

The guts of it basically is that Price is a selfish player and a big noter

Selfish because he puts his metres gained stat ahead of the teams needs, such as a quick play the ball, and he finished the article off giving him a serve because the rest of the blokes are growing beards in tribute to Ruben and Price is too selfish to participate

The big noter part about how he always claims in interviews that he "changed the clubs culture", Mathesons point being that blokes like Guttenbeil, Betham and Jones set a good culture for the club, and they were solid in defence before Price arrived, and under his culture they are soft in defence
 

Fast Eddie

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Haha you have to be f**king kidding me. What a f**kwit.

Price said only a couple of weeks that he does his upmost to not be put on his back during a tackle so he can get quick play of the balls.

Also Pricey said last week that he has a tradition of shaving every game day and I'm Rubes wouldn't mind too much.

And what about last years defense? Thought it was pretty good.....and our defense has been pretty sh*t this season......and oh wait Pricey has been out injured for most of it.
 

Micistm

Bench
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It's great that we're getting some good out of that paper with Sponsorship to the NZRL/Kiwis, but the bottom line is that the Sunday News is just out and out trash, it really is. Any one's entitled to an opinion for sure, but if anyone in sport are big noters, selfish and ego driven it has to be some of the idiots writing for that rag.
IMO it would be a deliberate attempt to get some ratings boost and a writing backlash for publicity. Lol, usually I get wound up and fire emails off everywhere, but don't think I'll bother giving them the satisfaction, I'll just vote with the wallet and stick to the other one for good. And from a personal point of view our friend on the forum here from the Star-times helped as much as he could with the Warriors/Budget Sky debate...Sunday News just did not want to know, far too many of them affiliated with Sky.

Matthew Ridge can wind you up at times with his column- Sometimes fair, sometimes very unfair and even hypocritical- But this guy takes the cake. I think I've heard all I want to about his literary diarrehea and certainly won't be buying a paper to find out any more.
 

Micistm

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B.H, you should post the gist of his column on the One Tribe Forum. If they wanted to entice feedback, they will certainly get it in droves
 

Hatzy

Juniors
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Wow. I just read it.

That is possibly the biggest piece of trash I have ever read.

I know it is only a column, but the guy is firing blanks.

The guy is a freakin' idiot.
 

Dr Crane

Live Update Team
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Price is responsible for dodgy defence? Does he remember the small matter of 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999....well, you see where I'm going.
 

shiznit

Coach
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ive been saying it for ages... John Matheson is an idiot of the highest order...

his personal attacks on Graham Henry last year were truly pathetic. it reached an all time low when he made up some story about henry passing out in a public toilet... absolute rubbish...

seems pricey might be on his dart board now that everyone is over bagging henry...

if your reading this Killer you should write something to back pricey... or atleast to show how much of a worthless merkin Matheson is...
 
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B.H, you should post the gist of his column on the One Tribe Forum. If they wanted to entice feedback, they will certainly get it in droves

Have seen it on there already mate

I will continue to buy the paper coz 95% of there league stuff is pretty good, don't mind that Lawton bloke, and i usually enjoy most of Ridge's columns as well.

Matheson is just a bloke you read and laugh at tbh, I found it funny how he went on and on and on for years about Graham henry using rotation and how evil it is, and when Robbie Deans does it in Australia not a mention :lol:
 

Micistm

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Little update today which should give everyone a laugh- Firstly, it's quoted in various circles he 'wrote' a book on Stacy Jones. Guess which one! Yep- it's the Keeping the faith book-Basically a picture book with various quotes from Leagueys through it. Nothing wrong with it, quite a nice wee lightweight read...but how anyone could suggest they 'wrote' it is a joke! And HE calls others glory seekers! ;-)

Secondly, had a good clean out of the cupboard where I keep papers for lighting the woodburner, and I stumbled upon a couple of Sunday News papers from last year. Made for fun reading! Aside from the Cheerleading about how we were going to kill all in the Rugby World Cup, there were some interesting comments about Price at that time from Mr Matheson- 'Inspirational Warriors Captain' and so on! I may just post those to him, so he can see those 'Leagueys' as he disses us are not nearly the hypocritical tosser he is, just to plug his new Monty book!
 

Micistm

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Spill the beans man, I could do with a laugh this week, between Scummy Bill and watching all these poor Sods battling the storm round the country
 
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