Rumours and Stuff

[Gary Gutful]

Seinfeld is the Vance Joy of sitcoms tbh

Not a big Seinfeld fan at all but AFI is the Blossom of music bands tbh.

 

[Bazal]

Not a big Seinfeld fan at all but AFI is the Blossom of music bands tbh.

Well luckily for you I left any defensiveness over the kind of music I enjoy back in high school, given you listen to a band called Pungent Stench....

 

[hindy111]

Anyone else struggle to take ‘stuff’ seriously?

I am going to light one of those Russian matches soon.

 

[hindy111]

Not a big Seinfeld fan at all but AFI is the Blossom of music bands tbh.

Seinfeld and Frasier best 2 sitcoms ever.....

 

[hindy111]

Hmm sitcom power rankings?

So anyone else find the matches from Russia funny? This could be a sitcom plot. A wacky Aussie and crazy Russian form this bizaare friendship.

It's much funnier then a guy living with his broke brother and his fat kid whilst wearing silly shirts.

 

[El Diablo]

A wacky Aussie and crazy Russian form this bizaare friendship.

are they poofs?

 

[parra pete]

Seinfeld and Frasier best 2 sitcoms ever.....

Haven't you seen Curb your Enthusiasm????

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Well the highest tackling forward and 3rd overall was Jake tribovij. He averaged very close to 78mins and 42 tackles a game with 136mtrs
Brown if averaged another 10 mins would be 41. 5 tackles a game and 177 mtrs.

Am I missing something?

You are.

As a player's minutes increase his per-minute output must decrease. Either that or his quality (metres per run or tackle effectiveness) drops off.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Well luckily for you I left any defensiveness over the kind of music I enjoy back in high school, given you listen to a band called Pungent Stench....

To be fair though, Gary wrote half the songs on Anal merkin’s 1994 masterpiece Everyone Should Be Killed.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

I have mixed feelings about signing Luke. None of which have anything to do with the reported offer. However I am more likely to be happy with the signing if Mahoney is still in the 17

I think Mahoney will be in the 17. Signing Luke also means our low hooker stocks look much stronger. The problem comes for 2020 onwards. We'll be trying to negotiate a contract for Mahoney throughout the year, signing Luke makes that a tougher sell.

 

[strider]

I am going to light one of those Russian matches soon.

Be sure to let us know how it goes ... maybe some pics .... or better still, a video

 

[Chipmunk]

No but to get the grant you have to tick these boxes.

https://sport.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/OOS/SIG/CentresExcellenceProgram

That media release doesn't mention the Raiders. I wouldn't be surprised if that wasnt the program that is giving the Raiders funding.

 

[Chipmunk]

No but to get the grant you have to tick these boxes.

https://sport.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/OOS/SIG/CentresExcellenceProgram

BTW...i can tell you that working in this space presently that you can come up with some pretty easy things to pass that 'community' criteria. It's actually a nothing criteria in reality. The club running one coaching course a year in the facility would meet that criteria pretty easily. All these 'community' criteria are bullshit things made up to meet a particular regulation to justify spending tax payer funds on private use infrastructure.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Well luckily for you I left any defensiveness over the kind of music I enjoy back in high school, given you listen to a band called Pungent Stench....

They are an AFI side project.

 

[Gary Gutful]

To be fair though, Gary wrote half the songs on Anal merkin’s 1994 masterpiece Everyone Should Be Killed.

I wrote “Song Titles are F**king Stupid” whilst I was in Long Bay.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It goes to show a song doesn't need to go for three minutes to be a classic. You could teach Ed Sheeran a thing or two.

 

[Hollywood Jesus]

If we have cap space that we won't end up spending somewhere else:

2019 - $500k;
2020 - $200k.

That's not a bad deal. Mahoney gets one more year to ease into first grade and Luke doesn't kill our cap in 2020.

 

[TheRam]

$300k+ is his value. If he signed for cheaper with the Warriors it was because he was already in NZ with his family (kids at school and shit), they already had a couple of dummy half options, and he was injured.

It's also worth noting that none of the figures reported are necessarily true, though they seem plausible to me. If he's recovered well from surgery then he's worth more than when he was injured with surgery pending.

Also adding to that, what some may not have factored in is that it needs to be attractive enough exchange rate wise and then getting back into Sydney house prices for him to even think of going anywhere as Pou has already mentioned he is settled over there.

The offer if true sounds about right to me, when you factor in all the real world stuff and the fact that if fit, he is a huge upgrade to anyone we have at the moment in the same position. My only concern is his fitness. I hope we have done our due diligence better this time then we did for Watmough.

 

[TheRam]

How many games you reckon?

2.

 

[TheRam]

Look, I'm not completely against the signing... The question marks for me are, Which Isaac Luke are we getting? He's your stereotypical hot/cold proposition type player. Last year was his best season as a Warrior, which coincided with his need to find a new deal. His 1st or 2nd year at the Warriors (can't remember which) was terrible, overweight, disinterested.... His tenure at Souths had similar hallmarks. I think a deal for 2019 with an option in our favour for 2020 (like the Knights were pushing) would have been more palatable

Maybe his manager told us before we tabled the offer that Luke was not willing to move unless he was guaranteed a multi year deal to make it worth to him and family, so we went with the shortest possible.