Some interesting stuff here from the arrogant lardarse:
NATHAN TINKLER has admitted he approached Kade Snowden just hours before the former Newcastle prop was about to sign a new two-year deal with Cronulla.
That's not what they said before...
''I made that call - I don't need anyone's permission to make a phone call,'' Tinkler said yesterday. ''I picked up the phone and rung him and said, 'Do you want to come back to Newcastle - and if you do, you need to wait and let this stuff transpire'.
''Kade Snowden is going to be the best front-rower in the game. He is a special talent.
''He could hold off signing a contract until February next year and a club would still take him.
''All I see is a local player who is about to become an Australian representative and the Knights have walked away. There should be no one more important player for the club to sign than that bloke.''
Snowden is a prop. A potentially great prop, but he's still a prop. Tinkler doesn't seem to understand the game, or the salary cap.
Knights chairman Rob Tew was alarmed by reports a third party had directly approached players to entice them to Newcastle.
''If true, these actions undermine the whole concept of fair play and professional conduct which both the NRL and clubs are strongly committed to,'' he said.
Knights chief executive Steve Burraston described that action and other rumoured approaches to Jamal Idris, Michael Ennis, Darius Boyd and coach Wayne Bennett as ''complete arrogance'' and ''unprofessional'' and showed disregard for salary-cap restrictions.
All true, and all especially good reasons why Knights fans should be celebrating this outcome rather than deriding their management.
Tinkler said the ''club has to be upgraded''.
''Don't think I was coming on board to pay the existing squad to run between ninth and 12th every year,'' he said. ''Forget that. I was coming on board if we could make changes to make the club a top-four threat.''
:lol:
Seems like he doesn't rate the players the Knights have now at all.
All above quotes sourced from here:
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...s-he-made-call-to-snowden-20110222-1b2pn.html
There's also this:
Tinkler, who is worth an estimated $610m, has lent the club money in the past to keep them afloat and said he intended to call in the $500,000 outstanding debt and the Jets, the A-League club he owns, would also also pursue $250,000 in compensation from a motocross event at EnergyAustralia Stadium that forced them to relocate an A-League game to Port Macquarie.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...m-knights-offer-withdrawn-20110221-1b2od.html
What a scumbag. I have no great love for the Knights, but seriously, to not only throw a tantrum because the Knights wanted to do a little due diligence on the offer, and then try to ruin the club because of it... the block is an absolute prick. Rugby league does not need someone like Nathan Tinkler.
If the Knights members have any sense, they won't launch a no-confidence motion against the current board, because Tinkler would only be leading them on a road to ruin.