Rumours and Stuff

[Tiger5150]

Yeah… precisely…. Which means you agree with me? And drawing from there, just because provisions in a players contract would be a restraint of trade, does not mean that restraint isn’t likewise allowable.

Mate your post that I responded to was you raving about the Federal Court case and how it was a beacon that everyone should study with regards Restraint of Trade.

The High Court ruled that the case you were spouting as recommended reading was bullshit.

 

[TheCrowe]

whatever helps you sleep at night

If we had Bunji as our coach Id be having nightmares every night.

 

[Tiger5150]

If we had Bunji as our coach Id be having nightmares every night.

he has 24 more NRL games experience than your guy......

Seriously you would swear Parra won the comp rather than spoonbowl the way you guys climb into the Tigers. Literally one game away from the spoon.

 

[Gronk]

Umm

https://twitter.com/nospam49/status/1869580105498124633?s=61&t=q0pzBgfp65RbZZanL3hgyw

 

[Vic Mackey]

he has 24 more NRL games experience than your guy......

Seriously you would swear Parra won the comp rather than spoonbowl the way you guys climb into the Tigers. Literally one game away from the spoon.

in my lifetime I’ve seen parra and us win the same amount of spoons, yet I’ve only seen one of us win a comp

 

[TheCrowe]

he has 24 more NRL games experience than your guy......

Seriously you would swear Parra won the comp rather than spoonbowl the way you guys climb into the Tigers. Literally one game away from the spoon.

And hows that working out for you?
Fair enough, will stop going to your forum and giving you shit.....oh wait!

 

[DaveMc]

in my lifetime I’ve seen parra and us win the same amount of spoons, yet I’ve only seen one of us win a comp

In my lifetime, I’ve seen us win four times as many comps as you. Congratulations, you’re younger than me. We both support shit footy teams, though.

 

[Vic Mackey]

In my lifetime, I’ve seen us win four times as many comps as you. Congratulations, you’re younger than me. We both support shit footy teams, though.

but that’s been my entire point this whole time

 

[JokerEel]

Serious question, why would they come to the Tigers if they arent paid more? because they like the colours?

In Richo we trust. He is taking out the trash, I think all will make sense in the next couple of months ;-)

And of course all that matters is where we all are in October.

You paid 700k for Bud just to come last.

Would will Smith make you come laster?

 

[DaveMc]

but that’s been my entire point this whole time

Your point being that both teams are crap? Who could possibly argue - I don’t see many Eels supporters here suggesting anything other than that last season was a debacle.

 

[Vic Mackey]

Your point being that both teams are crap? Who could possibly argue - I don’t see many Eels supporters here suggesting anything other than that last season was a debacle.

old mate above talking like it’s 1983

anyways it’s late for me, think the Mrs is asleep now so it’s safe for me to go and have a wank in bed, Vic out

 

[Tiger5150]

And hows that working out for you?
Fair enough, will stop going to your forum and giving you shit.....oh wait!

Mate you can go to whatever forum you want.... I dont give Parra shit. I follow a team that has won three spoons on the trot

 

[Tiger5150]

You paid 700k for Bud just to come last.

Would will Smith make you come laster?

The year after we had Will Smith we signed Bud Sullivan. The year after we signed Bud we signed Luai.....its an evolution, lets see where it ends....its very exciting.

 

[TheCrowe]

Mate you can go to whatever forum you want.... I dont give Parra shit. I follow a team that has won three spoons on the trot

You dont?
Yes u do follow the perennial spooners.
Lighten up Bunji boy.

 

[JokerEel]

The year after we had Will Smith we signed Bud Sullivan. The year after we signed Bud we signed Luai.....its an evolution, lets see where it ends....its very exciting.

Very very exciting especially now you have the pommie dud off your roster!

 

[TheCrowe]

Very very exciting especially now you have the pommie dud off your roster!

And have 2 decent 5/8s

 

[lucablight]

Arthur has moved players on before, including Tim Mannah who Arthur initially kept as co-captain after Stuart gave him the captaincy in the final three games of 2013.

We announced this year that we wanted to replace Gutherson at fullback, while Arthur was coach, and it later came out that we wanted to use Talagi there. This explains his selection at fullback in reserve grade to start the year.

But even if it was going to be harder to convince Gutherson, Sivo and RCG to f**k of while Arthur was coach, it doesn’t say anything about his coaching ability. It just means his relationship with them was getting in the way of roster management, not that he couldn’t coach. In fact after 11 years in the NRL he would be a better coach than when we signed him. He’s certainly not too old.

Ricky Stuart deserves credit for the 2002 premiership. He had the Roosters playing very well that season. The Knights were just a better team than the Roosters in 2001. Murray also got a relatively average Cowboys side to a grand final against a much stronger opponent (ironically against Parramatta). Brad Arthur never achieved any upsets of that magnitude during his coaching career (although he came very close in 2021 against the Panthers).

I agree that Arthur did show a ruthless side on occasions when it came to roster management. Nathan Brown and Fui were dealt with pretty harshly. Would he have done the same for Gutherson and RCG tho? I have my doubts because they were obviously two of his favourites. If he let his personal feelings get in the way of what’s best for the team then you can certainly say that’s a weakness of his as a coach.

As far as finals records go we have to look at the outcome at the end of the day. If people are calling Penrith a dynasty now despite two of their grand final wins with a victory of 2 points then would we be saying a similar thing if they had lost them? No we’d be looking at the outcome and saying they’re chokers. You can say our two point loss in 2021 was because of bad luck but at the end of the day we weren’t clutch (despite the dubious refereeing) and Penrith were clutch for two of their grand final wins.

 

[T.S Quint]

No. But so far he's a lot more exciting than Arthur ever was.

I dunno.
I was pretty excited when BA took over from Stuart as well. Was even more excited when we didn’t finish last that year.