Your old friend Chris Anderson

[chico's nose]

It has been reported that he has signed a two year contract as head coach for the newport gwent dragons welsh RUGBY UNIONteam :shock: .

 

[King of the Hill]

:shock:
NO WAY

punk?

 

[coolumsharkie]

pmsl.....@ SS

 

[Genius Freak]

Poor Gwent

 

[Punk]

It has been reported that he has signed a two year contract as head coach for the newport gwent dragons welsh RUGBY UNIONteam :shock: .

 

[The Popper]

Your right about the Welsh connection, Chico. Anderson was signed 8 hours ago.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0500...amp;headline=anderson-on-board-name_page.html

 

[andrew flap]

good riddance :evil:

 

[Wobbygong]

When is the hearing for his damages claim agianst the club going to be heard?

I read somewhere (months ago) he's after $1.3m which if successful could really damage us financially added to the new pokie tax kicking in for 2005 and beyond.

Is his action still proceeding?

 

[newman]

When I read the headline I figured hed been signed as the Welsh NATIONAL coach. Wrong. Very very wrong.

Gee Chris your moving up in the world when you can coach a team thats not in your code, is thousands of miles away in a country that some would consider a Rugby Minnow. Awesome.

 

[Dean Moriarty]

Gee Chris your moving up in the world when you can coach a team thats not in your code, is thousands of miles away in a country that some would consider a Rugby Minnow. Awesome.

Hmm, it was suggested that part of his court case was that his reputation had been damaged by the Sharks club to the point where he couldn't get a similar job elsewhere.

"Your honour, my client, a premiership-winning rugby league coach, was reduced to coaching overseas in another code. Show me the money!"

 

[Special K]

but that also goes out the window when you factor in how much he is getting paid and souths asking him about what he is doing in 2005...

 

[Dean Moriarty]

Maybe, but Souths only asked, didn't appoint him, and crossing codes would have to be seen as a risk for him. How much are they paying him anyway?

 

[Nuffs]

Hmm, it was suggested that part of his court case was that his reputation had been damaged by the Sharks club to the point where he couldn't get a similar job elsewhere.

"Your honour, my client, a premiership-winning rugby league coach, was reduced to coaching overseas in another code. Show me the money!"

if this is true, it could give him a big advantage

 

[Special K]

Maybe, but Souths only asked, didn't appoint him, and crossing codes would have to be seen as a risk for him. How much are they paying him anyway?

No idea but you would think it would cost a f**k load for a former aus coach to go to the other side of the world and teach a new game.

Souths showed interest. Which means he is still seen a man who can add to a club. Thus the sharks firing him didn't mean he was worthless.

Then again it is sharks. Who knows who they will put into bat for them :lol:

 

[Dean Moriarty]

Hmm, it was suggested that part of his court case was that his reputation had been damaged by the Sharks club to the point where he couldn't get a similar job elsewhere.

"Your honour, my client, a premiership-winning rugby league coach, was reduced to coaching overseas in another code. Show me the money!"

if this is true, it could give him a big advantage

It's just a line that they could argue. I'm still guessing that we will end up paying him some amount but nowhere near the $1.3m he's apparently claiming. Just on the basis that both sides seem to bear some of the blame for the whole fiasco.

 

[Macca]

I still reckon he will get $400k.

 

[Alan Shore]

Good - now Opes can complete the destruction of the WRU, finishing off what David Moffett has started and allow the growing RL organisations there to take total dominance.

 

[Dean Moriarty]

There's more chance of the Storm killing off the AFL in Melbourne than there is of getting rugby union out of Wales.