The Back Page is an utter disgrace

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

There are only two professional sporting sides with swear words in their name

Arsenal and f**king Manly

Smerkinhorpe

 

[The.X.Factor9]

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Is this the show where they have a timer and they talk about all sports and their issues ?
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[Charles Bronson]

The Bear-back Page...

Fair dinkum.

Mike Gibson and Paul Kent have lost whatever journalistic credibility they had left after last night's gibberfest. We get it, you hate Manly, you don't have to go on five minute tirades trying to remember ancient histories vaguely related to what you are trying to say. The organization who are paying you did just as much if not more to nuke your beloved Bears than what you claim Manly did.

It was embarrassing to watch, especially with so many other things going on at the moment, not just in League but all sports.

Billy Birmingham did himself proud defending the area he grew up in. And the AFL guy was reasonably ok too.

Anyway, serenity now.

I never watch that show cause gibson is a f**kwit

 

[Green Machine]

I've hardly watched the show since Chippy passed, to much bullshit from Victorians and Gibbo has lost the plot. And i can't stand that knob Craddock.

I'm surprised the show is still running. When Craddock came on the show, I stopped watching,

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Try the Brisbane Courier-Mail as rubbish journalism. Yesterday some clown called Ben Dorries stated tabloid trash in an inside back page article called "Let's embrace black day for league, bro".

He listed 10 inane points of conjecture and came out with placenta all over his face.

No. 6 was a beauty...

BRONCOS BOOST

A win for the Warriors would be a win for the Broncos. Just a few weeks ago the Broncos smashed the Warriors 40-10.

Honestly what drugs is this dude on?? Since when have the Geldings been anywhere near a GF this week??

Maybe cork sucking and ice hole drilling??

What you need to know about Dorries is he is the weasliest, moronic, f*ckwitted, snivelling lil merkin in the media. And that's like having the best tan in Africa. It's quite an achievement.

A win for the Warriors is a win for the Broncos. Haha, whatever. Think any of the players will raise a glass on Sunday night if we win and say 'well we beat em twice, we're basically premiers!'. That old 'they didn't beat us, so they can't call themselves champions' line is the lamest one in sport.

 

[Marshall_magic]

They get way too many clowns on the show these days,
-Brian Taylor is a massive AFL apologist who will defend every single indiscetion whole heartedly yet lay the boot into almost anyone else
-Crash is a gibberer who bashes the NRL every chance he gets yet will stick up for the likes of Brendan Fevola
-Kent is alright but believes he knows everything about everything (just ask him) but is probably the only one on the show with any idea about the NRL (apart from Marto who has some idea)
-Billy is okay I guess although he doesn't have the same knowledge as the rest of them, the others are okay I guess
-The AFL guy (Anderson?) on last night at least tries to talk about other sports (even if he doesn't have much idea) rather than just bash them like Taylor seems to do
-Marto is pretty good
-Gibbo is going senile

Didn't Warren Smith have a spot on their a year or so back for a few weeks? He's better than some of the "experts" they have. Whenever they go away from NRL, AFL, Rugby or Cricket they all seem pretty clueless, evident last night when they spent 5 minutes talking about Kewell and Emerton playing in the A-League opener, yet none of them knew if the game was in Syd or Melb.

 

[Michael Bishop]

I used to enjoy watching it. Happened to have it on last night and caught Paul Kent and his anti-Manly rant. The guy's an idiot and Gibson is not much better. Thankfully Billy Birmingham is there to stop it being a complete farce.

 

[blaza88z]

The Bear-back Page...

Fair dinkum.

Mike Gibson and Paul Kent have lost whatever journalistic credibility they had left after last night's gibberfest. We get it, you hate Manly, you don't have to go on five minute tirades trying to remember ancient histories vaguely related to what you are trying to say. The organization who are paying you did just as much if not more to nuke your beloved Bears than what you claim Manly did.

It was embarrassing to watch, especially with so many other things going on at the moment, not just in League but all sports.

Billy Birmingham did himself proud defending the area he grew up in. And the AFL guy was reasonably ok too.

Anyway, serenity now.

What did Paul Kent say that wasn't true?

 

[_Johnsy]

The organization who are paying you did just as much if not more to nuke your beloved Bears than what you claim Manly did..

Not true.

When the Northern Eagles were formed it was no surprise that Manly Warringah had more board members than North Sydney did.

As a result the board had it written into the constitution of the Northen Eagles, that if the club went bust the licence would revert back to Manly Warringah. Imagine the shock and horror when the Northern Eagles were run into the ground.

The Northern Eagles was nothing but a mechanism to ensure Manly survived after a short hiatus and North Sydney died. Either you are too young to remember this occurring, or you have a selective memory.

 

[Brutus]

The Manly arrogance against the Bears can be heard in all its glory on a Sunday morning on 2KY.

In the form of that beach ball Zorba.

 

[Jason Maher]

What you need to know about Dorries is he is the weasliest, moronic, f*ckwitted, snivelling lil merkin in the media. And that's like having the best tan in Africa. It's quite an achievement.

A win for the Warriors is a win for the Broncos. Haha, whatever. Think any of the players will raise a glass on Sunday night if we win and say 'well we beat em twice, we're basically premiers!'. That old 'they didn't beat us, so they can't call themselves champions' line is the lamest one in sport.

King oath on that last point. Plenty of people have claimed we weren't really premiers last year because we didn't beat Melbourne. Coincidentally, every person I've seen make this claim has been a Saints hater. Such claims are nothing more than a coping mechanism for the vanquished (I recall the odd Saints fan making the same claim about the Roosters in 02).

 

[firechild]

There's rarely a team that wins a premiership that hasn't failed to beat at least one team in the comp. If that was the case St Merge would have to put the white flag up in March each year if they were scheduled to play the Raiders in Canberra.

 

[Lambretta]

The Courier Mail: it's like the Telegraph, but written solely for QUEENSLAN-DUH!!!!!!'s with a massive chip on their shoulder.

Well at least it's inclusive

 

[Lambretta]

Not true.

When the Northern Eagles were formed it was no surprise that Manly Warringah had more board members than North Sydney did.

As a result the board had it written into the constitution of the Northen Eagles, that if the club went bust the licence would revert back to Manly Warringah. Imagine the shock and horror when the Northern Eagles were run into the ground.

The Northern Eagles was nothing but a mechanism to ensure Manly survived after a short hiatus and North Sydney died. Either you are too young to remember this occurring, or you have a selective memory.

True, but Manly's hand was forced when the Bears tried to take a coup on the board and get more Bears people in there than Manly people to try and do the opposite.

Let's face it, it was a shit hook up from the word go and was bloody unworkable. Had they both gone up as stand alone entities, are you certain that both would have succeeded with entry to the NRL?

Manly did what was best for Manly. Is that surprising? Every other club at the time of the creation did what was best for themselves. No mergers were done without some form of benefit. The Steelers and Magpies would probably acknowledge that without the Dragons and Tigers they would be no more and it seems pretty bloody obvious that the Dragons and the Tigers increased their supporter bases (and got other benefits) from their relationship with the Steelers and the Magpies.

Manly got nothing from their merger with the Bears other than a hostile partner and reduced gates at all their games. Manly fans didnt want a bar of the Bears and the people of the Coast didnt like the Manly part of their club. It was like being hungry and being offered a dog shit sandwich. Everyone turned their nose in the air and started looking for other options.

The merger was a stay of execution for both clubs and both were looking to kill the other off as quickly as possible. Manly won. Don't hate them for it.

 

[meltiger]

Not true.

When the Northern Eagles were formed it was no surprise that Manly Warringah had more board members than North Sydney did.

As a result the board had it written into the constitution of the Northen Eagles, that if the club went bust the licence would revert back to Manly Warringah. Imagine the shock and horror when the Northern Eagles were run into the ground.

The Northern Eagles was nothing but a mechanism to ensure Manly survived after a short hiatus and North Sydney died. Either you are too young to remember this occurring, or you have a selective memory.

Why should any of that be a shock?

Manly owned the license that the JV was operating on, Norths had been punted from the comp prior to the JV. Why would they go into any agreement that would put them at risk?

Over the years North Sydney people have tried to re write history with mistruths and lies but the fact always has been that they were punted from the comp. Manly were awarded a license which they brought to the JV. The NE JV agreement was always a different beast to the other two who had the license awarded to the JVs not the founding clubs.

They could have stood with South Sydney, instead they tried to pull a swifty on Manly and have done nothing but cry since it backfired on them.

I hate the scums as much as anyone BUT people look far too harshly towards Manly over the NE debacle when they should be looking towards the red and blacks when apportioning blame.

 

[Mr Saab]

Billy Birminghams image has altered in recent years on the show, hes sport knowledge is terrible and his humour is not was it was either.

Billy stopped being funny 10 yrs ago. He absolutely kills the show with his so called "input". The other panel members could be having a good discussion and this 25 yr old wannabe gives his 2 cents in the form of a wise crack or a joke and it is as funny as watching re runs of Hey Dad.
As some have said, the show went downhill since the passing of Frilingos.

 

[_Johnsy]

I am not saying it is a shock, nor is it a surprise.

The disappointing thing is that they could not be fair dinkum from the start and have an equal number of members on the board. IMO it was designed to fail so Manly would obtain the NRL licence, that is very disappointing, and is a blight on the Manly club. Nothing more nothing less.

 

[Hutty1986]

Billy stopped being funny 10 yrs ago. He absolutely kills the show with his so called "input". The other panel members could be having a good discussion and this 25 yr old wannabe gives his 2 cents in the form of a wise crack or a joke and it is as funny as watching re runs of Hey Dad.
As some have said, the show went downhill since the passing of Frilingos.

I agree, it's definitely not the same is it... Chippy was terrific

 

[firechild]

I am not saying it is a shock, nor is it a surprise.

The disappointing thing is that they could not be fair dinkum from the start and have an equal number of members on the board. IMO it was designed to fail so Manly would obtain the NRL licence, that is very disappointing, and is a blight on the Manly club. Nothing more nothing less.

The 2 clubs were forced through scaremongering by the NRL (read: News Ltd) to merge. Both clubs were always going to do their best to protect the best interests of their own club. They both wanted to protect their heritage and history and do what was best for their fans. It comes as no surprise that Manly was doing their best to pretect Manly rather than pandering to the wants of a club they had hated for over 50 years. The simple fact is it should have never happened but it was always going to be ARL aligned clubs that were forced to merge or die.

 

[meltiger]

I am not saying it is a shock, nor is it a surprise.

The disappointing thing is that they could not be fair dinkum from the start and have an equal number of members on the board. IMO it was designed to fail so Manly would obtain the NRL licence, that is very disappointing, and is a blight on the Manly club. Nothing more nothing less.

North Sydney had failed and Manly saw an opening to try and take Gosford. Of course the coast wanted nothing to do with 'em and back to stand alone they went but Norths were equally self serving and did nothing but whinge the entire time.

The only shame in the whole scenario is that the whiners haven't gone away. Hopefully 2015 sees Perth & BNE2 & we can forget all about this failure club.