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Eelementary

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Wasn't this police investigation bc of the match fixing allegations? How do we know that the cash payments have more to do with match fixing rather than salary cap dodginess ?

I'm not sure.

What I heard on the radio the other day said it was due to the cap dramas - but then, MMM have been known to get things wrong, so...
 

Eelementary

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Every team is rortimg the 3rd party tpas. Nrl know that.
Phil Gould basically admitted that all clubs are doing somthn suss.

And he's probably right, too.

But if the NRL finds evidence of it, then they simply have to punish the responsible clubs.
 

El Diablo

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Why punish the responsible clubs? Punish the bloody cheats!!
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Poupou Escobar

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With all this Manly salary cap drama going on, I hope that they end up having to release a couple of players like we did. If that blessed thing happened, Api Koroisau and Shaun Lane would be my choices and brilliant pickups for us.

On Api, I mentioned on here some years ago now, when he was 18 yrs old and playing in the lower grades for Souths that we should poach him, seeing that they had Issac Luke at the time.

As usual, some of the blind imbecile talentless fools on here mocked and ridiculed as they so often blissfully do. Well look at him now. Probably the best dummy half in the league on current form.

So many of you on here have no freakin idea about spotting talent even if Johnathan Thurston bit you on the dick, which by the way, when he was playing for the Dogs I wanted him at Parra. But some here ragged me out that he was to small and couldn't tackle, just like some said about Api. I must admit though even I didn't think that Thurston was going to become the player and future immortal that he has turned to be.

Just because I have previously suggested players that have has issues with the law and proven to be bad news, doesn't mean they don't/didn't have talent. When I made that suggestion we were in a very different situation as a club. Also, if we had given out that lifeline, you don't know if that player would have gone in a different direction or not. As we know, to rehabilitate successfully a major part of that is you need to be surrounded by good influences at the very least, not cast adrift.

Anyway...end of rant.

P.s. Watch Lane peoples...he's a goody, if he can get his work rate up, which will take time.
Lane and Koroisau are both defensive liabilities. There's a reason they have less than 100 NRL games between them despite being 23 and 25 this year.
 

Poupou Escobar

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I always liked Lane to. But Dogs and warriors happily flicked him. And in a weak manly backrow he struggled to get a spot. A year older then TEPAI.
Id rather give Tepai another 12mths and see where he is at at 22. Abput age where muscle mass really develops.
Lane only plays out wide where it's easy to look good running at halfbacks. Moeroa spends most of his minutes in the middle.
 

Stagger eel

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Well the guy is only playing first grade because Curtis Sironon is injured another bloke who probably wouldn't make too many firsgrade side.
 

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