Poupou Escobar
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Also, whoever was in charge after the Fitzgerald period was constantly white-anted by whichever merkins weren’t in charge. Just like in state and federal politics.
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Also, whoever was in charge after the Fitzgerald period was constantly white-anted by whichever merkins weren’t in charge. Just like in state and federal politics.
I think it would absolutely be something like this. The bean counters and governance merkins are there to make sure the footy SMEs are asking all the right questions and considering all the relevant facts.
Surely that is part of the job of the Head of Football? If they don't trust the Head of Football to do his job, then maybe they need to find someone else they trust.
If they can't delegate all of that to the Head of Football, then they need to find a Head of Football they can delegate it to.
Maybe there aren’t enough such people to go around? Alex McKinnon alluded to this in his recent article.
You have cherry picked what Mr Burns said and taken it out of context. As did eveyone else. I recall these pages repeatedly echoed the words “he said it”, each and evey time that I tried to justify context.
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MON is very good at his job. He would be all over it!!!
and wanted to merge with another team wasn't it panfers not sure
Tigers, Fitzgerald had prototype caps already made
Small sample size?
Jamie Lyon hated him.
I think when you consider the rest of Anderson's career (Warriors and in England) those other 3 half seasons could be seen as the outliers.
Fitzy hired Hagan, because he beat Brian Smith in the 2001 gf. Not only that he killed the 2006 season by hiring him a whole year early. He deserved to get rissoled on that alone.You have cherry picked what Mr Burns said and taken it out of context. As did eveyone else. I recall these pages repeatedly echoed the words “he said it”, each and evey time that I tried to justify context.
It was 2008 and the government of the day was proposing a significant increase in poker machine turnover tax. Mr Burns was the spokesman of all NSW pokie den leagues clubs and was lobbying hard against it, as (they claimed) it would spell the end of the NRL teams.
Bulldog Ritchie then made the lack of confidence by Mr Burns in the NRL and specifically the Eels future as the headline, as it was the time that the Telecraps fav Spagnolo was about to make his move.
The rest is fish n chip paper. Up to you to decide if Spagnolo riding in on his white horse was to save us or ultimately f**k us for nefarious means. Who ultimately, for better or for worse, had the club’s interests at heart ?
DT - Denis Fitzgerald: Eels are not certain to survive for more than another 5 years
Denis Fitzgerald: Rugby codes should merge June 20, 2008 12:00am http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23890527-5001023,00.html DENIS Fitzgerald is the longest-serving CEO in rugby league history. The man known as The Emperor of Parramatta is about to clock up 30 years at the...
Was that a merge or a takeover? Facts matter.
That's a fair point. He wasn't Wayne Bennett or Jack Gibson. I think he was more like Terry Fearnly tbh; but my point is, most commentators will tell us that Parramatta rode on the coat-tails of Jarryd Hayne to reach the GF in 09, whereas I think Anderson got us there and never received credit for it.
Anderson famously responded to the Qn "can you pinpoint what turned the team around ?" By saying "I don't know".
The Ambush in the semi at Kogarah was definitely DA.
Who gives a shit , we are the EELS not the Tigers!!! sounds like u we’re one of the stooges that was pro MERGER….
Originally Tiger
