The Return of Gasnier?

[Thomas]

Fairly certain he's back to sign a chunky contract with the Melbourne Rebels S15 team. He has said in the past he wants to play for Australia in the 2011 RWC.

 

[gronkathon]

The salary cap isn't perfect. It doesn't mean the Melbourne Storm club as an entity are not cheats though.

The issues are very seperate

 

[maccattack]

The salary cap isn't perfect. It doesn't mean the Melbourne Storm club as an entity are not cheats though.

The issues are very seperate

True they are separate issues but I dont think you can say the club as a whole are cheats.


The whole thing is a farce anyway. This Gasnier thing highlights it. Rugby League needs to grow up and accept that sportsmen need to be paid the market rate. If not they will go elsewhere. They dont believe the same things the fans do, like loyalty.

Rugby League is the number one game in the most populous areas of Australia. There is no good reason why it doesnt have the most money. The shackles need to be thrown off and the game allowed to breath. All the other club officials saluting the penalties of the Storm are just looking out for themselves. Same old story and the reason why after 100 years rugby league has barely moved an inch.
The fans have been thrown a dummy. Someones getting rich and its not the players. The fans are being dudded by the admin letting quality players go off to strengthen competitor sports.

The current salary cap is so damaging. It has lost us enough players to field teams in Adelaide and Perth but we are led to believe its a good thing. There has to be an alternative. Its the administrators that are to balme, not the players.

How much does a CEO get paid? Nobody would dare suggest a CEO is overpaid "we need to pay well to get the best" That maxim doesnt apply if you are a rugby league footballer.

 

[Doug2234]

We offered $250k for Poore who left us for more $$$. We havent replaced him with anyone so there has got to be some cash there....

Additonally its more the likely his contract would be backloaded to next year so he would be paying for sh*t all this year...

if that doesnt work how about the Dragons throw in a free boat.. Im sure there is one in Melbourne that would be up for sale soon.... Cash only of course...

 

[petetheileet]

^^rofl^^

 

[$$Poor Boy Blues$$]

I want Gaznier back

 

[gronkathon]

The Melbourne Storm as an entity are cheats. Whether all parties of that organisation are complicit to that act of cheating is another matter. The player roster is illegal therefor it is fraudulent. It is not a hard equation. This does not change that the organisation known as the Melbourne Storm cheated everyone in the game for in excess of 4 years of competition.

I am of the opinion that the matter of Rugby and AFL threats will be virtually non existant within the next few years. In regard to AFL they are a PR excercise and the reality is that very few NRL players are even suited to the game. That and they will find themselves in the position that the ARL has in that they know that the signings of Sailor, Tahu, Rogers and Tuquiri cost them alot for little return not only in terms of cash but in the harming of their junior base.

As for CEO's the Ceo is normally paid a wage fitting the companies ability to pay. It should tell you something that Gallop earns much less that any other administrator in the major codes.

Yes the pot should grow but until it does so this issue is an excuse for bitter old fools like Gould and Masters to hack in while offering no solutions because it's "not their job" to offer a possible sollution for the improvement of the game they say they love so much and a excuse for Storm supporters to tell themselves they were simply acting against an unjust system so they are not cheats. Perhaps some fans view them as revolutionaries

 

[Doug2234]

Why are we talking about the Storm cheating. I didnt know Gaz was looking at going to Melbourne Storm??

Perhaps point out where in the topic subject line "The Return of Gasnier?" it points to the Storm....

stop living in the past.

 

[gronkathon]

Apologies. Got more than a little side tracked

 

[Doug2234]

its all good man.

 

[Moffo]

I wouldn't mind getting him to come and dig a pool in my backyard with his chin

Hahahha and fill it with his sauce

 

[STG-Dragon]

True they are separate issues but I dont think you can say the club as a whole are cheats.


The whole thing is a farce anyway. This Gasnier thing highlights it. Rugby League needs to grow up and accept that sportsmen need to be paid the market rate. If not they will go elsewhere. They dont believe the same things the fans do, like loyalty.

Rugby League is the number one game in the most populous areas of Australia. There is no good reason why it doesnt have the most money. The shackles need to be thrown off and the game allowed to breath. All the other club officials saluting the penalties of the Storm are just looking out for themselves. Same old story and the reason why after 100 years rugby league has barely moved an inch.
The fans have been thrown a dummy. Someones getting rich and its not the players. The fans are being dudded by the admin letting quality players go off to strengthen competitor sports.

The current salary cap is so damaging. It has lost us enough players to field teams in Adelaide and Perth but we are led to believe its a good thing. There has to be an alternative. Its the administrators that are to balme, not the players.

How much does a CEO get paid? Nobody would dare suggest a CEO is overpaid "we need to pay well to get the best" That maxim doesnt apply if you are a rugby league footballer.

Yeah lets just throw away the cap and let Melbourne, Brisbane and the Rosters have all the best players in the comp! :crazy::lol:

 

[STG-Dragon]

The Melbourne Storm as an entity are cheats. Whether all parties of that organisation are complicit to that act of cheating is another matter. The player roster is illegal therefor it is fraudulent. It is not a hard equation. This does not change that the organisation known as the Melbourne Storm cheated everyone in the game for in excess of 4 years of competition.

I am of the opinion that the matter of Rugby and AFL threats will be virtually non existant within the next few years. In regard to AFL they are a PR excercise and the reality is that very few NRL players are even suited to the game. That and they will find themselves in the position that the ARL has in that they know that the signings of Sailor, Tahu, Rogers and Tuquiri cost them alot for little return not only in terms of cash but in the harming of their junior base.

As for CEO's the Ceo is normally paid a wage fitting the companies ability to pay. It should tell you something that Gallop earns much less that any other administrator in the major codes.

Yes the pot should grow but until it does so this issue is an excuse for bitter old fools like Gould and Masters to hack in while offering no solutions because it's "not their job" to offer a possible sollution for the improvement of the game they say they love so much and a excuse for Storm supporters to tell themselves they were simply acting against an unjust system so they are not cheats. Perhaps some fans view them as revolutionaries

Agreed!

 

[Godz Illa]

btw looks like Slothfield may not be talking out of his anus for once. Dragons confirm interest...

http://www.dragons.com.au/default.aspx?s=article-display&id=25527&dragons-interested-in-gasnier

 

[gaterooze]

As a Knights fan, I say bugger off Gaz. As an NRL fan, I say the same.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Dragons would be crazy to take Gasnier and pay him a sh*tload of money.

 

[maccattack]

Yeah lets just throw away the cap and let Melbourne, Brisbane and the Rosters have all the best players in the comp! :crazy::lol:

like thats what i said.

There is a better alternative to the clearly unworkable in its current form salary cap.

 

[gregstar]

if he asks for a dollar per square inch of mandible, we'll be bankrupt.

we don't need spasnier, we need thurston.

 

[Pierced Soul]

and who do the saints bump for this guy?

does he come back to make some spare cash whilst waiting for the rebels to get up and running?

if he wants to come back to league and commit for a few years then thats fine, if he wants to make some cash for 6 months before pissing off again then he can go f**k himself

i believe the nrl is better with him in it, but he's gotta want to come back and play the game

 

[shiznit]

Its pretty obvious what hes doing... hes gonna sign with St's for the rest of the season then sign with RU for the start of next season.

it makes perfect sense... the money's not really important for this proposed stint in RL because he wouldnt be able to get a RU contract until next year anyway.

so its all really bonus for him... instead of sitting on his arse as a free agent and waiting for next years super15 he can have 3/4's of an NRL season... earn some money... and potentially pick up that premiership that eluded him while he was here... and lets be honest... with the storm now out of the running the dragons would be an attractive club to have a one off stint with.