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The Bronco’s stake holders have been infighting since 2006??? It must be just a coincidence that after we lose the coach who would been intimidated by the ball boy that we are now spending money on backs coaches and are finally spending money in our pathways. We might finally be a powerhouse?? It would be very exciting!!
Cut the BS out we all know the reason he was playing in a different position in reggies and it had SFA to do with utility value.
How did that happen? Just bad luck or is their governance structure fundamentally flawed? How can such shit people end up in charge of such a rich organisation?
Just coincidence that we had to improve the business side of the club before being able to spend more on the football side of things? You don’t think there might be some cause and effect at work?
This is the Matt Cameron who brought Phil Gould to the club, with his access to Australia’s wealthiest rugby league fan? Or was it the other way around, with Gould hiring Cameron?
Every club has money. They just don’t all have the same amount. Penrith had their Centre of Excellence eight years ago ffs. Ours still isn’t finished.
Awesome that no other clubs are allowed to compete for business in Parramatta. Just like how they’re not allowed to recruit juniors from our district. How good being a one team town!
Ryles and his massive staff will be a vindication of increased spending, not the cause of it. And when we eventually have a poor season under Ryles I look forward to every merkin claiming vindication of whatever pet issues they have with him. “He sounds like a bogan!” “His tactics are shit!” “He gave jobs to all his mates from St George!”
Plenty of merkins here thought he was the next big thing a couple of years ago.
Agreed. We were the best team all year in 2001. Meanwhile our 2009 and 2022 opponents were demonstrably better than us. Just compare the points differential after 24 rounds.
And this is true. We were the better team, but they were better on paper, which is what mattered on the day. We dominated the regular season due to Smith’s tactical brilliance. Unfortunately on the day Newcastle negated that by laying all over us and daring the ref to ruin the spectacle with penalties. Their superior class shone through on the back of that.
How about just one that is our equal?
Eighth would be nice. Or the Storm without their best player.
Pou is an excuses type of guy...
I visually acted this whole scene out which I assume most did.
It's the heat, mate. And to make it worse I hear that Pondi out the 'riff way is closed. Just turn your A/C off now and save Sydney.
Are you on your lunch break?
It is an interesting take, and particularly a very melodramatic, media-driven take on a fairly normal contract clause in the NRL.
Option madness: Why Eels have hamstrung themselves on 2026 transfer market
The Eels recruitment policies are hurting them again.www.zerotackle.com
interesting take on our moves on contracts and recruitment,
Why else would the R&R team agree to them? More to the point, why don’t all our players have them? If you can’t answer these questions your theories aren’t worth much even if you got them from such quality sources as zero tackle dot com.
They are not supposed to be favourable to the club, they are supposed to be favourable to the player. No different to paying the player more money. It suits the player not the club. What suits the club is getting the player to sign as cheaply as possible. One way to do that is to offer other incentives instead, including player options.
Melodrama!!! Why the f**k wouldn’t we come out the other side? We just had our worst season since 2018, without a single PO coming due. I’ll bet you $100 we go better in the years these POs are activated than we did this year. They are a non factor, intended to protect the player in the event of injury or loss of form. They are not intended to cripple the club, which is why there’s so few of them.
Maybe Scott Pryde from nuffies.com can have a word with the people who get paid to actually make these decisions.
It’s not rocket science. Nothing is free, including contract options.
