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HE'S long gone as Parramatta chief executive but Denis Fitzgerald refuses to let old wounds heal.The former Eels supremo turned up for the club's annual general meeting last weekend, bounced up on to the stage and took the microphone to launch a scathing attack on the football club board. Fitzgerald was upset over the board's decision not to accept a life membership nomination for his mate and former employee Andrew Hill. He also attacked chief executive Paul Osborne for not attending a recent NSWRL meeting as one of the Eels' delegates. The shot at Osborne was in particularly poor taste as his mother is suffering from cancer and is gravely ill. He was visiting her in hospital on the night of the NSWRL meeting. Board member and old Fitzgerald enemy Ray Price was furious over the attack on the directors. "What the hell has Andrew Hill done to deserve life membership anyway - he only played in juniors?" Price said. "Apart from that he was just an employee. You don't hand them out to everyone. If Denis doesn't want to help the club, he should stay away. One day he's going to have to move on."
THE NRL wouldn't allow Parramatta Eels cult hero Fuifui Moimoi to fly his son to Sydney to watch him play football unless it was included in the Eels' salary cap.But they will allow South Sydney's blockbusting new forward Sam Burgess to stay rent-free in Russell Crowe's Potts Point apartment until he finds his own pad. NRL chief David Gallop denies it's a case of double standards with the Great Britain Test forward. "It all comes under relocation costs - I wouldn't think it was unreasonable for a club to provide accommodation for a player who has come all the way from England until he finds his own home," Gallop said. "I don't think it is a salary cap issue."
WE continue to hear rumblings from Parramatta about the future of Kiwi forward and club stalwart Nathan Cayless as Eels captain. Cayless can no longer be guaranteed a starting spot, with Fuifui Moimoi and Justin Poore the logical favourites to wear the front-row jerseys. Under normal circumstances, coach Daniel Anderson would hand the captaincy to Nathan Hindmarsh, but he is Cayless's best mate and would never take the job under these circumstances. Whatever happens, it shapes up as a real test of the coach's ability to make sometimes unpopular and tough decisions.
WHO said rugby league clubs need poker machines to make a profit? We're told the South Sydney Rabbitohs are about to announce a small operating profit for last season on the back of a hugely successful membership campaign. This is a big performance considering they failed to make the finals.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...independence-bid/story-e6freye0-1225812034497
THE NRL wouldn't allow Parramatta Eels cult hero Fuifui Moimoi to fly his son to Sydney to watch him play football unless it was included in the Eels' salary cap.But they will allow South Sydney's blockbusting new forward Sam Burgess to stay rent-free in Russell Crowe's Potts Point apartment until he finds his own pad. NRL chief David Gallop denies it's a case of double standards with the Great Britain Test forward. "It all comes under relocation costs - I wouldn't think it was unreasonable for a club to provide accommodation for a player who has come all the way from England until he finds his own home," Gallop said. "I don't think it is a salary cap issue."
WE continue to hear rumblings from Parramatta about the future of Kiwi forward and club stalwart Nathan Cayless as Eels captain. Cayless can no longer be guaranteed a starting spot, with Fuifui Moimoi and Justin Poore the logical favourites to wear the front-row jerseys. Under normal circumstances, coach Daniel Anderson would hand the captaincy to Nathan Hindmarsh, but he is Cayless's best mate and would never take the job under these circumstances. Whatever happens, it shapes up as a real test of the coach's ability to make sometimes unpopular and tough decisions.
WHO said rugby league clubs need poker machines to make a profit? We're told the South Sydney Rabbitohs are about to announce a small operating profit for last season on the back of a hugely successful membership campaign. This is a big performance considering they failed to make the finals.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...independence-bid/story-e6freye0-1225812034497
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