IanHindmarsh said:
Iafeta said:
The RLIF needs a good, stern kick up the backside for allowing clubs to try and ruin the international game - clubs like Penrith and Bradford with their selfish club first, other representative teams aside from their own later should be fined.
But still, how are Bradford been selfish? when Vainikolo has ruled himself out, not the Bulls as a club.
Unlike Puletua, Penrith who have told Tony he MUST have sugery!
Bradford misinformed Lesley Vainakolo. They told him surgery was a must.
Chris Hanna, the NZRL doctor has seen these incidents for over a decade, and only once has surgery been a goer, and that was only because the athlete demanded it.
Lesley still wants to be part of the tournament
"I heard Lesley interviewed on radio and he said he wanted to play in the rest of the tournament and would be speaking to Brian about that," ARL chairman Colin Love said.
nospam49 said:
Dont be stupid.
And stop pretdnding that your personally know the situation...its rather pathetic.
puletua himself was quoted on the news as sayingt it was a nothing situation that got well out of hand.
He KNEW he could only play the one Test match and while he would like to have played in the whole Tri series, he was just happy to be able to take part in any test match at all. He knew he had to head back home after the first game, and he was fine with that.
The NZRL officials didnt understand the situation and when they found out they ran to the media like a bunch of fools.
Now a few people here have jumped on the NZRL's bandwagon.....and its not a suprise to see the NZRL has stuffed up again regarding the Vainikolo situation.
Wake up to yourselves, this is a non issue.
Just ask my good mate Tony...
Your name suits you. But take away the league part of it.
The Kiwis stuffed up on the Vainikolo situation? Have you been dousing yourself with too many needles again? Firstly Stacey Jones is soft for retiring from rep games after near on 40 test matches, but Robbie Kearns, Brad Fittler, Luke Ricketson and the like are immortalised champions in your biased eyes?
Then Penrith did the right thing, even though you can't give a single plausible answer to how come the ARL Doctor is only person for the Kangaroos who can pull a player out of a tour, the players can't. But the NZRL doctor can't do the say, but the club can? Yet your stupid argument was "The ARL play their players", so friggen what? The players have earnt their selection through meritorious efforts for their clubs above and beyond what they are paid by their clubs, they deserve the chance to live out their dream. Penrith and Bradford are so insular they believe they are at the top of the tree, to them its club, daylight, internationals, or in Penrith's case, Australia, State of Origin, club, daylight, internationals which is a biggot of an attitude. Much like everything you seem to write, actually. You sure you're not Mick Leary?
And then to top it off, you take Tony Puletua completely out of context, almost to the point of slander.
"I said I was sad to leave, but I was sure the team would do the job," he said.
"I have faith in the boys. They put in a good fight here and I'm sure they will do the same in the UK."
What he did also say, which you have taken completely out of context is this
"I didn't think it was going to blow up to that big," he said.
"I just tried to stay focussed and leave that to both sides to sort out."
What he has just said is A: he was sad to leave the tour, hence he wanted to be apart of it and B: to go with that, he can't believe both sides, and you'd have to imagine especially his club robbing him of his rights being so insular in regards to well informed medical reports. He's being as cool as a cucumber, as diplomatic as you like, but you, the kid who labelled Stacey Jones a coward, tried to put a post up taking one slice of an interview from Puletua and take away the context that he was disappointed to leave the tour.
As for the rest of your stupidity, Sel Pearson is a goose, but he's spot on below.
"When we received the medical report on Tony Puletua, we were told his recovery time would be 12 to 14 weeks," NZRL chairman Selwyn Pearson said. "We took him to doctor John Mayhew, who has worked with the All Blacks and is the best in the business. He agreed with the Penrith doctor that Tony needed [ankle] surgery but he said the recovery time would be six to eight weeks.
"When I put this discrepancy to Penrith, he [chief executive Mick Leary] said, 'I don't care anyway. If Tony tours, there will be serious legal and financial ramifications'. There you go. He should have just admitted it in the first place. He has since said that is a pack of lies but I had him on speaker phone in front of a room full of people.
"And the thing that disappoints me with Lesley is that they [Bradford] knew he was in our sights and they said nothing about surgery. They say he needs a 'major knee reconstruction'. If he needed a major knee reconstruction, would you let him play another game, against Australia? Of course you wouldn't."
