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Not really about the rules,although they many, and lots of grey areas.
Yes no doubt. Murdoch is pulling the strings. He says jump....NRL says how high.
Murdoch is the architect of so many things around the world in many fields - politics is his baby. That is the biggest problem when you have a rich bastard controlling much of the media and as he is part owner of Foxtel he has the lions share of what that pay TV channel should be doing as he is the puppeteer.
Yep its because the top 5 teams are way ahead of everyone else ...... the rest just fumble and stumble around .....
Partly that yep. But the way the rules are enforced is infuriating.
It's an unpleasant thought, but a distinct possibility.
No club is going to loan out one if their top players - it is only for players that have been unable to get much game time. Zac is contracted for 4 more years I think. Please people, stop perpetuating this rubbish that Zac might go to the Rorters. It is not happening!
Who said they are not in the forum any longer? They probably dropped out because we are getting our arses handed to us every week.
Green shoots mate, green shoots.
Wrong thread?
Just as a point of interest, Michael Beattie was done for firearms, (and possibly drug) offences. So it is even worse than the writer believes!from the SMH yesterday
Saints and sinners
I said to you that if ever you wanted to see an example of a famous club that had lost its moral compass then there was no better example than the St George Illawarra Dragons?
This was the club that pursued Israel Folau long after he was a byword for religious nutterdom and extreme homophobia; who gave Jack de Belin a $200k pay rise on a new four-year contract while he was dealing with seriously grave rape charges.
Also, the club that had been so untroubled by serious allegations of sexual assault made against Jarryd Hayne from his time in America, that they went after him and that contract was only derailed when – by the footballer’s account – on the day he was to sign he was charged with the rape in Newcastle, which eventually put him where he belonged, in prison; although Hayne is appealing the conviction.
With that kind of leadership coming from on high, that kind of tone set, is it any wonder that a couple of months ago the players were so boneheaded as to try and have a barbecue on the sly in breach of their NRL bubble regulations? And then, the latest news: coach Anthony Griffin was close to giving de Belin the captaincy. Seriously!
“Jack is a good person and leader within our group,” Griffin said by way of defence.
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‘Jack is a good person’: Griffin defends de Belin amid captaincy storm
Seriously! Listen, coach, good blokes do not behave towards young women the way de Belin demonstrably did, though I entirely accept that in the court case the law did not find him guilty of rape.
And behaviour like that is no more captain material than attending a bubble-breaking barbecue and reportedly hiding under the bed when the police came. Nup. Nup. Nup.
Seriously, how hard is this?
Give me a club any day which picks on good character, which wants players who wear their jersey to be bywords for decency and good bloke-edness the way St George used to have with the likes of Mark Coyne, Brad Mackay, Michael Beattie and before that players such as Craig Young, Reg Gasnier and Kevin Ryan. Right now, the Dragons seem to pick on nothing more than raw playing ability, with no reference to character, and it is a bad mistake.
Ask Canterbury whether Adam Elliott was worth it, the Gold Coast whether Hayne was worth it, or Cronulla whether Dugan was worth it.
Interesting comments on our club.
Hes probably right about a lot of it.
Serious lack of leadership !! - over to you The Board of Directors.
Plus Coyne for assault in Singapore.
