You leave the henhouse unsecured you can't complain when the fox attacks. If the fox can't get anything, he looks elsewhere. When he keeps getting results, however, you are the first place he looks.
But he doesn't get results. He simply makes stuff up and then it's out in the open for general conjecture and scrutiny. Any journalist can say 'sources' and hide behind it without having to justify the lies.
Remember when Sanyo announced that they weren't going to sponsor Penrith after a 12+ year association? This was the same year that Gould came back to Penrith and Rothfield wrote that Gus lost the longest serving sponsor for the club.
The truth was, Sanyo was pulling out of Australia. Rothfield never reported that. It was more convenient to say something to make Gould look incompetent.
Now we've supposedly got Jimmy on the nose with Nathan and the club. It is just an angry little and insignificant man trying to square off with an old foe. This guy does more harm to the sport than anyone else (besides Andrew Fifita) with his negativity and bias towards whatever his agenda suits at the time.
I could not tell you one thing he has ever done to enhance the sport that he has made a living off.