Southernsaint said:
You know what I think is funny?? All you Souths fans whinged in the late 90's when you were getting the arse from the NRL, saying that footy "transcends business" and is about mateship and doing the "right thing", but now that your club f**ked up and signed a player for too long and for too much, you want to put the squeeze on Joe in order for him to quit.
It's a hypocritical stance...
We had officials at the club that thought footy transcended business and look how far that got us circa 2002-06.
I don't know if any Souths fan has said that they don't believe we are trying to get him to quit. But some of the suggestions from a lot of you are simply outrageous. Anything from the club deliberately sobotaging our chances to win by not playing him to forcing him to live in a roach infested motel. Their is clearly an agenda amongst a lot of you. Sweet as.
The club does want him to walk away and are doing everything in their power to do so. I could've sworn that the Sharks had just done a similar thing. Again I ask, where was the outrage then? Canberra sacked a chap because he is mates with an imbecile. Where was the outrage then (and I'm pretty sure Irwin wasn't on $7000 a week)? Joe has dug his heels in and refused to move on despite the best efforts of the club. Now we are playing hard ball. Like I have said adnausem, his form is not up to PL standard, so rather than send him to play with Kensington or Maroubra this weekend he will play in what some of you claim to be an even better standard comp than the one he not fit for now (the QLD Cup is not the same standard of the NSW PL, it is worse).
We are damned if we do and damned if we don't. I am behind the club 100% because as a financial member I don't want part (or any) of my fees going towards paying out a bloke that is an imposter of a footballer.