melon.... said:
Its easily rebutted. If you measure success by trophies alone, then we are by far more successful than Penrith to the tune of 6:1. Why count 2003 only? Lets count 2002, 75, 74...!!! But Im not like you.
I measure a successful club by how it has endured. Easts has been there from day 1 matey. No one else has. Easts hold a proud tradition that includes various records. Highest winning margin in a Grand Final. Highest pointscorer in a game, most 1st Grade Victories and the list goes on.
But I also look at the way they conduct themselves in the league. Their professionalism is second to none. Their training and coaching regime second to none. The ability to take unwanted fringe players and turn them into regular Ist Graders and Internationals. Their ability to improve over the years to the force thay are today, appearing in 3 out of the last 4 Grand Finals...they are the benchmark of the new millenium to date. After having their junior areas stripped from them by Souths in the 50s...thats right 50 years of only 4 local juniors whilst Souths rape and pillage clubs like Coogee and Randwick that are Geocentric and synonimous with Eastern Suburbs, and still manage to produce junior talent from their limited resources. This is success. But wait there's more...a real relevant factor. They can pay their bills. They dont need to borrow money to pay their players. They dont need chook raffles, they dont need marches down Sydney's streets. They attract Big Sponsorship for a reason...they are a Marketting force, a true professional outfit and value for the sponsors dollar.
They have proven their loyalty to the League. Even now Penrith fans amongst other forget to soon that their clubs broke away to start a rebel competition for their own gains. Yet now you condemn Easts for looking after their own interests, as anyone else in their positin would.
Mate KEEP ON BRINGING THEM!! The more you doubt I can rebut your ridiculous factless and baseless comments, the more I can turn you inside out and upside down with data.
I cant wait until Round 4, when the Roosters put the cats in their places, and prove 2003 was a fluke.
Easts to Win!!!
Well you should show something for 95 years in the competition. Considering you started almost 60 years before Penrith, you should have more successes. Considering you've been there for 95 years, you should have accumulated a lot of victories.
And keep remembering that the team you were referring to and belittling in your 3rd paragraph has still won more grand finals than you. They have more to show for it than you did. Let's see what kind of public support you would generate with your attacks on the NRL. Judging by the vast majority of the posters here, not much apart from Rooster "Fountain of Mis-Information" Cogburn, Renowned League Fraud, and your other rooster buddies. Proving their loyalty to the league??? Now they want to bite their hand with this threat of legal action??? Don't give me that bulldust.
With your last line about 'ridiculous factless and baseless comments' - you're now saying that Penrith didn't win the Minor Premiership in 2003, or the NRL Premiership in 2003?? If you read my first paragraph, I was saying that you don't have anything to show for 2003. Penrith has.
You keep on referring to "Easts" being there from day one. Who in the blue hell are "Easts"????? I thought you were known as the sydney roosters. "Easts" no longer exists except in the form of a leagues club. In other words, there IS NO EASTS!! If your club is so proud of it's tradition, why change it's name??
You blab on about this and that in your 3rd paragraph about professionalism, training and coaching regime, etc...blah blah blah. Gee that professionalism and coaching didn't help them much in Grand Final 2003 did it??? :roll:
And here's a quick fact for you. Try and disregard this one.......
PENRITH PANTHERS 18 - sydney roosters 6. The biggest losing margin for the roosters this year, but in the GAME THAT COUNTS - GRAND FINAL 2003?? How embarrassing
Oh and by the way, that's Penrith's biggest winning margin in a Grand Final!!! All at the expense of your so-called "professional outfit".. :roll: :lol:
