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Matty Bhoy

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Agreed, but my fear if this doesn't go to well is that we end up with a hand full of new players that haven't measured up and the older lot that haven't fired again due to injuries and or form issues that may have been somewhat negated if we kept the 3 we let go and we end up at the bottom of the ladder for a 3rd straight year.

If this happens and we have a rookie coach who is perceived to not have hit the ground running and doesn't have a Gus Gould to keep the ship sailing straight and sure and to keep the press, player managers and players all still believing in the plan then we will become a very, very unattractive destination for current and future targeted players. Early success is vital at this stage in my opinion.

We don't want to be the new Tigers, I'm to old to wait for another 10 year rebuild to make the top 4 again. Life's to short and Parra have stolen enough of my best years. They need to deliver ffs! Otherwise I may just do a little cheating on the side and from where I'm sitting, those warm waters seem very inviting where the Dolphins swim.

Who am I kidding? I'll die doing high dives at that swamp they call Parramatta River.
Fair points. Ryles just strikes me as a bloke who knows what he wants and is going to go after it.

You’re right, I am optimistic but I feel my reason for being so is validated by his actions so far, the face he’s done his apprenticeship with two well run clubs not to mention England rugby and the fact he didn’t just jump into the Dragons job.

Anyway; we’re obviously all onboard so fingers crossed. We win the comp under his tenure and I’ll be jumping in the river with ya.
 

Soren Lorenson

First Grade
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Maybe with the new government things might change??? Because i know may neighbourhood isn't safe to walk after dark anymore. Mainly kids running amok.
You strike me as an Alf Stewart type who would hand out a bit of discipline to your local neighborhood hoons.

(No but seriously that's f**ked and you can't do anything cause next minute you've been stabbed or hit with a bit of wood or worse)
 

84 Baby

Referee
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Agreed, but my fear if this doesn't go to well is that we end up with a hand full of new players that haven't measured up and the older lot that haven't fired again due to injuries and or form issues that may have been somewhat negated if we kept the 3 we let go and we end up at the bottom of the ladder for a 3rd straight year.

If this happens and we have a rookie coach who is perceived to not have hit the ground running and doesn't have a Gus Gould to keep the ship sailing straight and sure and to keep the press, player managers and players all still believing in the plan then we will become a very, very unattractive destination for current and future targeted players. Early success is vital at this stage in my opinion.

We don't want to be the new Tigers, I'm to old to wait for another 10 year rebuild to make the top 4 again. Life's to short and Parra have stolen enough of my best years. They need to deliver ffs! Otherwise I may just do a little cheating on the side and from where I'm sitting, those warm waters seem very inviting where the Dolphins swim.

Who am I kidding? I'll die doing high dives at that swamp they call Parramatta River.
You’ll need to jump in the river to cover up all the piss stains.
 

Gronk

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^^^
The Board had already agreed that should Gutho receive an offer elsewhere, they would not hold him to his 2025 contract year. But we are not paying out anything to him.
So really, I should have said - crickets from the Dragons. Interesting times.
 

hineyrulz

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You strike me as an Alf Stewart type who would hand out a bit of discipline to your local neighborhood hoons.

(No but seriously that's f**ked and you can't do anything cause next minute you've been stabbed or hit with a bit of wood or worse)
Well i was walking home from a friends place a few years back, pretty pissed and it's less than a k away so i've always walked it. Almost a corner from place about 6 or 7 young blokes jump out from nowhere and threatened to roll me. I sobered up pretty quick, they said "give us your phone and wallet and we'll let you go". All i had on me was an almost empty bottle of Kraken so i broke it on the kerb and said come and get it. I think back now and i say to myself you idiot but in my defence was was pretty pissed. They sort of backed away called me crazy and said we were only joking". Gutless little merkins, i'm sure they wouldn't have pinched my shit if i didn't go full mad merkin.

Flaming Galah's!!
 

Poupou Escobar

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I'm to old to wait for another 10 year rebuild to make the top 4 again.
A rebuild never takes that long. If a club hasn't made the top four at least once in a five year period it lacks the resources to do so consistently, and hasn't had any luck either.
 

Soren Lorenson

First Grade
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Well i was walking home from a friends place a few years back, pretty pissed and it's less than a k away so i've always walked it. Almost a corner from place about 6 or 7 young blokes jump out from nowhere and threatened to roll me. I sobered up pretty quick, they said "give us your phone and wallet and we'll let you go". All i had on me was an almost empty bottle of Kraken so i broke it on the kerb and said come and get it. I think back now and i say to myself you idiot but in my defence was was pretty pissed. They sort of backed away called me crazy and said we were only joking". Gutless little merkins, i'm sure they wouldn't have pinched my shit if i didn't go full mad merkin.

Flaming Galah's!!
You didn't come down in the last shower mate.
 
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Well his success seems to be based on getting a billionaire to throw unlimited cash at a club.

Agree, that after that significant cash injection he can restructure a club good.

Panthers didn’t have a billionaire. They have a great LC. We have a good LC. And it’s not like we don’t have funds.

He can set up a club with proper Junior ID pathways as well as a great scouting network. He can build a club. Then we have our f**king Jim guy who’s an accountant.
 

Gronk

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Panthers didn’t have a billionaire. They have a great LC. We have a good LC. And it’s not like we don’t have funds.

He can set up a club with proper Junior ID pathways as well as a great scouting network. He can build a club. Then we have our f**king Jim guy who’s an accountant.
You can't re-write history merkin.

In Gus, I trust: the Panthers needed $10m, Packer stepped in to save the club​

Andrew Webster

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April 27, 2019 — 12.00am

 

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