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Unless Ronald Volkman was actually a better player in the Parramatta District competition than Jake Arthur, but Jake Arthur got picked in junior representative sides ahead of him in any case?
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Unless Ronald Volkman was actually a better player in the Parramatta District competition than Jake Arthur, but Jake Arthur got picked in junior representative sides ahead of him in any case?
Are you suggesting Jake Arthur would get preferential treatment? We would never do such a thing! Certainly wouldn't have him sit on the bench in the GRAND f**kING FINAL with no plans to play him at all!
Dont be silly.
It’s true - parasites rarely pay rent, especially the ideological variety.
Well how can financial assets help on the field if they're not being spent on football operations?
Yep, and this is part of the reasoning behind the NRL salary cap, as well as the FIFA FFP regulations. Just having a lot of assets doesn't mean they have the cash flow to spend more on staff or facilities, and even if they did, it doesn't mean they would want to max out their spend in that area.
How could you show this rich-clubs-run-by-dummies is what's happening? If they're run by poor decision makers, why are they so rich?
I think there is just a lot more competition in the Premier League than there used to be. Some of these competitors have won titles since 2013 and they all managed it without Alex Ferguson.
It's not like it was at the expense of anyone better. He spent most of his time as injury cover off the bench.
Do the reasons matter? If it could be fixed, the weaker clubs would catch up.
If you knew 'how to read financial statements', you would show us how. I'd love to see the proof that our club should be getting better results than the ones we've achieved over the past 40 years. Blaming Brad Arthur or Mark O'Neill just seems lazy, and a very clear example of recency bias.
Of course Volkman was a better player. He was so good the Roosters paid for him to move to the Eastern Suburbs at 16 and go to school at Waverley College. He played all his junior reps at Easts, from Harold Matts through to Jersey Flegg.
Why is the merkin even notable? For having a bald father?
He’s not notable. He’s was only signed for 2025, so he’s already on the market.
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His not notable he has just had smoke blown up his arse since he was 8 years old and knew that he was the golden child that would always get a rails run to the top no matter how good he was.
Well pretty much in JA and RV first year of junior reps in Matt's, back in 2018...eels finished 2nd and lost in the GF, while Roosters didn't even make the finals and finished 12th...maybe the eels did pick the better players...
Sean Russell, Will Penisini, Jake Arthur, Trey Mooney are the only 4 players that made FG from that side.
