Wayne Bennett recommended Steve Price didn't he?

[R2K]

Not unless I'm plastic and can be blown up

:lol:

 

[STG-MACCA]

Well said!

 

[Minh]

Not unless I'm plastic and can be blown up

or can be blown up and plastic.

 

[RedVee]

Yes, I took a much closer look at things from the Easts merger time on. It was a watershed moment in our history.

 

[Minh]

Merging with Easts would have been the end.

 

[big pat]

Father Ted, thanks very much for your comments. Things haven't always been good. Hardly a Utopia! I agree with you that the Eastern Suburbs incident was critical. I remember I was visiting Brisbane at the time and read the cover of Rugby League Week - it featured a photo of a St.George player with the caption of "Bondi or Bust". I was disgusted and began taking an active interest regarding the off-field issues, when before I was only interested about what happened on the field. It was a defining moment in my life and led to the R2K campaign in later times and is probably a major reason why I'm a Kogarah Councillor today. I began taking a very active interest in the St.George community on many levels.

I lost faith in officialdom at the time when Super League happened and there was a campaign in the News Ltd papers to move us to Adelaide and Melbourne. I recall living in Hurstville in 1996 and receiving all the Cronulla junk in my letterbox that they would be the only team in Southern Sydney and they were the "Pride of the South".

Like Father Ted, I used to volunteer my time to the Club to the original "Red Vs" (volunteers) to do the mailouts about season tickets, put up posters and sell bronze season tickets on game day. Father Ted and I answered a call from the St.George Club in their magazine where they said that from now on it's either "excellence or extinction". We used to deal with Michael Beattie at the Football Club until he seemed to be on the outer with others there.

The decision to leave Kogarah Jubilee again in 1999 (after St.George merged with Illawarra without a supporter vote) was too much to take. That led to the R2K movement and we haven't wavered on the importance of St.George since. The future of the Dragons isn't in Melbourne or Adelaide or Homebush or Moore Park in the Eastern Suburbs. The future of the Dragons is in Kogarah in the St.George District.

Long live St.George!

To read more about the history of the R2K movement, please have a look at this webpage:

http://r2k.info/history.html

r2k a true st george legend, and teds not bad either.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Robinson is far too entrenched.

All the old fogies proxy their votes to him.

I remember last board elections in 08. We all wanted change. Danny got 80% of the vote.

Oldies don't like change. They like Bingo, cheap Roast's and the pokies.

Danny knows his customers. He gives them all they want.

It old school, but its the way it is. Its much like the Raiders and you've the blow ups down there.

The only thing on our side is that we are, if not THE, then at least one of the BIG THREE, Sydney clubs with a huge, entitled, fan base and a ravenous media who loves to stir us up.

That at least keeps the pressure on the faceless men to produce.

 

[64 Dragon]

Merging with Easts would have been the end.

It was the end for Geoff Carr at the club.

 

[Elias1983]

It was the end for Geoff Carr at the club.

I still remember those rallies on Kogarah oval after home games!

At one of them a lady started off on the microphone with "In 50 years time, most of us won't be here...." only to be cut-off by none other than the Skull with "I WILL".

Cracked everyone up!!!