Independent means there is Love to be lost
Roar Guru By ScottWoodward.me, 18 Jan 2010 ScottWoodward.me is a Roar Guru
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I have known John Ribot since 1980 when he used to feed the ducks in Ashfield Park and also play on the wing for Roy Masters’ Wests Magpies. Fast forward twenty years and Ribot’s resume is fat and impressive.
But you will not read in his long list of achievements what really sits with me.
He is incredibly passionate about rugby league and despite what you may read in some sections of the media, he is not egotistical.
Super League would never have happened had the players been paid properly and the game was not going backwards. Right or wrong, Reebs did something about it.
He is a big fan of the proposed independent commission on rugby league.
There is no question that he would be the best qualified person to chair the commission. But for it to work and have the respect and credibility that it needs, he is the first to admit that the chairman and all members must be independent.
The Commission will not be able to carry the word “independent” if ARL chairman Colin Love keeps putting his hand up.
All the key stakeholders meet in Sydney on Monday to start the ball rolling.
Make no mistake, this is about politics. It is almost impossible to turn three or four RL’s into one as influential players have to lose their seats and expense accounts.
Ribot and Love do not swap Christmas cards, we all know that. But the game is bigger than feeding ducks and misguided egos.
Lets get it right, independent should mean INDEPENDENT.
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January 19th 2010 @ 11:41am
Matt S said | January 19th 2010 @ 11:41am | Report comment
Wagga League’s wasn’t too happy under Ribot’s ownership. Infact, they lost Eric Weissel oval as a result i think.
January 19th 2010 @ 2:57pm
ScottWoodward.me said | January 19th 2010 @ 2:57pm | Report comment
Matt I think u will find there was a third party involved, but regardless, it is not ideal to make those accusations without all the facts and the guy not defending himself.
I dont understand your point anyway. Thats fine if you choose to pick out a negative and isolate it, but you should offer balance and the positives are overwhelming.
January 19th 2010 @ 3:44pm
Col the Bear said | January 19th 2010 @ 3:44pm | Report comment
i’m sorry Scott, but I hope you understand, if I don’t comment further..I look at the vision at an empty stadium at gosford….and my club out for 10 years.. through no fault of our own….
January 19th 2010 @ 3:57pm
ScottWoodward.me said | January 19th 2010 @ 3:57pm | Report comment
Col
I do understand and it must be heart breaking to not have your team.
I am not sure what team should have gone but the Bears and Sea Eagles were too close and one had to go. That is just a fact of growth. The facilities inc parking at Manly are a disgrace and without private backers they would be broke so u have every right to feel peeved.
Surely the CC Bears will come out of hibernation one day.
January 19th 2010 @ 4:16pm
Col the Bear said | January 19th 2010 @ 4:16pm | Report comment
O.K one more post can’t have you gaining on my article
it’s not only my loss it’s rugby leagues loss not having us there.. I can’t agree that Manly and Norths were too close geographically, it was mooted back in 1991 for the Bears to relocate to the Central Coast, .it was Manly who were scratching for a partner Not the Bears.. I recall reports that the Bears were safe at gosford in the press in ’98 as they were considered a regional team on the Central Coast.. Manly were even looking at a merger with the roosters to become the eastern eagles.
and the NRL team that would have been out, if the Bears survived on the CC at the time was Penrith.. they were next in line and the Bears saved them..and they are the first to admit that in their Book about the Panthers..
so these clubs owe us something now..expansion has to happen.. otherwise clubs like Brisbane, gold Coast, N Qld, Canberra, New Zealand ,Melbourne,and even Newcastle owe expansion for their existence..and if they don’t back it ,put them down for complete hypocrites..
we were told by the vision that NSO wasn’t up to NRL standard.. you can’t play there for the NRL..and then after we had gone 2 NRL games were played there in the mid 2000s.. I could go on.. but most has already been said.. now I have to look to the future and make sure we get back as the Central Coast Bears.. and wearing our 102 year old colours of Red and Black..
January 29th 2010 @ 11:18pm
Realist said | January 29th 2010 @ 11:18pm | Report comment
“so these clubs owe us something now..expansion has to happen.. otherwise clubs like Brisbane, gold Coast, N Qld, Canberra, New Zealand ,Melbourne,and even Newcastle owe expansion for their existence..and if they don’t back it ,put them down for complete hypocrites..” — Col The Bear
While I believe North Sydney Bears were treated unfairly, I don’t think the expansion clubs in Queensland owe the Sydney-based clubs a cent. The only reason the Queensland-based expansion clubs are in a Sydney-based competition is because Sydney’s clubs used the revenue they collected from pokie machines to kill off the BRL — the BRL clubs weren’t allowed to have pokie machines at their Leagues clubs until 1992, whereas the Sydney-based clubs has them for decades. So in a sense, you could say that the Sydney clubs owe Brisbane and Queensland for killing off the BRL.
January 19th 2010 @ 6:41pm
ScottWoodward.me said | January 19th 2010 @ 6:41pm | Report comment
Col as an unbiased observer I have to say if the Central Coast really want a team at Gosford, then they should turn out and watch the games played there. To date they haven’t.
January 19th 2010 @ 8:36pm
Springs said | January 19th 2010 @ 8:36pm | Report comment
The Central Coast have had to put up with Roosters games that would struggle to draw 8,000 at the SFS. If Roosters vs Titans came to my town I don’t know if even I would want to go to it.
January 19th 2010 @ 8:41pm
Dogs Of War said | January 19th 2010 @ 8:41pm | Report comment
I would. Now Sharks vs Roosters circa last year, no chance!
January 19th 2010 @ 9:14pm
Springs said | January 19th 2010 @ 9:14pm | Report comment
Well it was an exaggeration cause I definitley would. But the Central Coast had 5 games last year, but two involved the Storm and two involved the Roosters. Typically enough the two games that didn’t involve them drew over 15,000. Their average crowd was around 11K. I doubt Illawarra would get much more than that.
January 19th 2010 @ 10:27pm
ScottWoodward.me said | January 19th 2010 @ 10:27pm | Report comment
Point taken but if you want to send a message to the NRL or maybe the IC, it would not do your cause any harm if everyone turned up regardless.
Failing that, you should push for a Bear as a Commissioner on the IC, but then that wudnt be independent