Rumours and Stuff

[Poupou Escobar]

A TPA cannot include a playing condition.

No merkin needs to know about the condition.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Not a written one anyway.

ffs

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I'll say it again on the contract bullshit..

They need to change the way people are signed ect.

If you want to leave a club or a club doesn't resign you then you go into the NRL draft at the end of the season..

If you want to go to a certain club and don't want to go into the draft you sign and trade with your current club to the new club where they get something in return..

This will cut out all the behind the scene BS plus open up the NRL draft..

Would the players agree to this?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

We all know that for Isaac it is always about the $$$$

He is running a business.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Interesting beech and ryles were involved in setting a ceiling limit , is that not the job of O'Neill and sarantinos ?, possibly beech doesn't have confidence in those two

When the media talks about “the coach decided blah” it’s shorthand for the club deciding, much like in political reporting they talk about Washington did this, or Pyongyang said that. Consumers of political journalism like to think of states (countries) as their capital cities. Sports fans want a human face to apply to club decisions.

At the Bulldogs it’s “Gould decided…” because he has the biggest media presence at that club.

 

[Chipmunk]

How could we know?

Because the media at least knows whose interested in who. It's not in a Managers interest to keep that quiet

 

[Chipmunk]

Does resigning Moses count? Because we all had it on good authority he was f**king off to the Roosters!

I don't think that was anything more than opinion reporting from whoever.

No one could offer Moses anything other than us when we re-signed him anyway.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If he's worth more than Brown someone would've already have got him out of his current contract.

He could be on as much as Brown at the Dolphins

 

[Chipmunk]

He could be on as much as Brown at the Dolphins

Bollocks

 

[Poupou Escobar]

This is not really rocket science. If the club was smarter this is exactly how Aland should've been treated from day 1.

You think Aland sponsored us so the owner could hang around the team rather than promote their brand?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It’s not a secret that the top tier clubs know how to exploit this massive loophole.

I think plenty of fans still don’t get it though. A TPA offers very different benefits to the sponsor than a traditional jersey-style sponsorship. Not everyone who can afford a TPA wants to support the club in that way.

 

[Chipmunk]

You think Aland sponsored us so the owner could hang around the team rather than promote their brand?

Did many people buy one of their properties because they sponsored Parra? I doubt it.

Id say the same people who bought a property because they sponsored Parra, would've also purchased the property if they'd put all that money into TPAs with players, and promoted they sponsored the players.

 

[lucablight]

Not at all, we know there are reasons some players prefer our club. Two of them are playing Origin tomorrow night. But there are also reasons some players chose other clubs. There's no need to look for a scapegoat. We don't know all the facts so we shouldn't pretend someone must've f**ked up, as if that could be the only explanation.

You were the one implying that players would automatically prefer the Storm over us. I’m saying it’s not that cut and dry and we should stop selling ourselves short.

 

[JokerEel]

Interestingly enough I don't even think Arthur Laundy was previously a Dogs fan.

It's like Bouros on the board of the Roosters. He's now a Roosters fan because a richer Greek than himself tells him he is.

They are Tigers fans or were.

They even reached out to the tigers before signing up with the dogs. But got rejected.

 

[Rocket man]

This is not really rocket science. If the club was smarter this is exactly how Aland should've been treated from day 1.

I had never heard of Aland before the club sponsorship.
Sponsorship is a way to get their name out there..

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Smith at least defends at NRL level, and his attack is decent. Could definitely play second fiddle to Moses.

And is still only 22....with 40 nrl games. Has plenty of room for improvement....

 

[Avenger]

I own shares that have outperformed BTC.

Nice try dickhead

https://www.ymyl.com.au/best-performing-assets-last-10-years/

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Smith can't tackle.

84% is pretty dire isn't it??

It's better then Moses (82% and was 83% 2023, last time he wasn't injured), not far off Cleary (89%) and similar to Galvin (86%).

Additionally Smith in his first year of NRL 2023 where he played 15 games was at 92%.

 

[Gronk]

I had never heard of Aland before the club sponsorship.
Sponsorship is a way to get their name out there..

I still don’t know what Pirtek do.

 

[parra-matters]

I still don’t know what Pirtek do.

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