Rumours and Stuff

[Gronk]

Haven't read ASX listing rules lately but with only 2% free shareholding there is a lack of liquidity. They would delist you and you become private company.

ATM there is 10% held by minnows.

 

[TheRam]

The Chairman is worth near 800 million!! That's next level wealth and power. Every other club in Sydney is behind the 8ball going up against that.

I'm sure our leagues club and its assets are worth upwards of at least a couple hundred million, so we aren't exactly paupers either.

The issue is what have we done with all the tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions that our very, very profitable leagues club has made over the past 30+ years? Sure millions have been spent on a terribly run football club, but what about all the other millions of dollars?

All I ever saw were investments in bad club and real-estate ventures, that produced no profit or very modest profit at best. The way I see it, if you have a leagues club that is year on year in the most profitable top 10 leagues clubs list in NSW, then you should be way deep in solid to major asset acquisitions that, in Sydney, should have seen huge growth over the same period.

Instead, we are just now redeveloping our leagues club with hotel and parking lot upgrades in the tune of around $110-120m. This is a great first step, but well and truly overdue. After this development is complete and things settle down a little, maybe a couple of years and our football department stops the bleeding, I would hope to see the leagues club invest into major real estate projects and acquisitions. We have one of the leading bankers in the country on our board ffs, surely he would/should have the good oil on what to invest in?

But, this doesn't excuse the fact that we have as a club, squandered many years and 10's of millions on who knows what. Lets hope we can improve substantially from here on in. But I won't be holding my breath.

 

[TheRam]

Fencehuggers.

What about Fencewishy-washies

or my preferred option

FenceStraddlers

 

[Twizzle]

Or not.
Might depend on the reason for elimination.

but........but........its still an outrage

wtf would our club know ?

 

[TheRam]

I reckon he’d go better than he did last time. Failure is the best teacher.

So is talent. Without it it doesn't matter how many failure teaching moments one has.

 

[El Diablo]

fencef**kers

 

[Matty Bhoy]

2001 Grand final replay on now for anyone who wants to put themselves through the misery.

 

[El Diablo]

2001 Grand final replay on now for anyone who wants to put themselves through the misery.

go f**k yourself

 

[T.S Quint]

2001 Grand final replay on now for anyone who wants to put themselves through the misery.

I don't remember there being a Grand Final played in 2001.
I'm pretty sure they cancelled it and everyone went home happy, right?

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I don't remember there being a Grand Final played in 2001.
I'm pretty sure they cancelled it and everyone went home happy, right?

That's a bit disappointing tbh. I fell asleep before the game and just assumed that we won.

 

[Matty Bhoy]

go f**k yourself

First time I’ve ever watched a second of it. It’s time to exercise some demons. Completely forgot about Bobcat being held up early in the game. Things like that change matches.

 

[Bolgeel]

Yep, we need a HoF strong enough to sack a finals bound coach a few weeks out.

Gus is a joke, no way we need a egotistical wanker like him. O’Neill will be a good appointment who will compliment the coach and ceo moving forward IMO

 

[Joshuatheeel]

“The most intriguing whisper doing the rounds though centres on the Eels’ Bevan French and suggestions the club is considering off-loading him. French has been talked about as a potential fullback option at the Knights should he become available.”

https://www.theherald.com.au/story/...s-who-is-on-the-knights-recruitment-hit-list/

 

[El Diablo]

they can have him

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If he’s not going to play fullback there’s no point keeping him.

 

[Eelogical]

If he’s not going to play fullback there’s no point keeping him.

But, to cover our bases he could do with a good working over before he leaves. We don't need him scoring five tries against us when he first plays against us. How embarrassing would that be?

 

[Eelementary]

“The most intriguing whisper doing the rounds though centres on the Eels’ Bevan French and suggestions the club is considering off-loading him. French has been talked about as a potential fullback option at the Knights should he become available.”

https://www.theherald.com.au/story/...s-who-is-on-the-knights-recruitment-hit-list/

So perhaps they do see Ponga's future in the halves...

If it was up to me, French would be our first choice at fullback.

 

[Avenger]

So perhaps they do see Ponga's future in the halves...

If it was up to me, French would be our first choice at fullback.

That is his best position but I think we have two players (Hayne and Gutherson) that are better than him at NRL level.

 

[eels_fan]

I just feel French is too scared of the collisions in the game to be a successful fullback. Maybe he can be coached out of it, but he hardly contests in the air when he has someone steaming down on him, which is pretty vital fullback play

 

[Eelogical]

So perhaps they do see Ponga's future in the halves...

If it was up to me, French would be our first choice at fullback.

Let's run with this. Care to share your full 2019 team ( taking into account what we have available to us atm)?