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2009 saw the NRL’s marketing department make some very poor choices. When selecting the faces of their advertising campaign, they determined that the masses would be best moved by the pure talent of young starlets Brett Stewart and Greg Inglis to bring a stadium to its feet with freakish football.
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Bradley A Smith is based in Melbourne
A member since September 2009
Bradley A Smith loves: AFL, League, Football, Cricket
Bradley A Smith's favourite sporting team is Parramatta Eels, Tottenham Hotspur, Sydney Swans
Bradley A Smith says:
An Eels fan still waiting earnestly for a return to the glory days of the 1980s. There's something remarkable about experiencing the heights of success when you are too young to properly enjoy it and then the barren wasteland of character building losses throughout adulthood.
I totally understand that players move around in the NRL and the idea of a one club player is barely heard of nowadays, but the fact that the Bulldogs seem to have their eyes on not 1, not 2, not 3, but at least 4 of the Eels key players (with reports of Moritimer, Mateo, Kris Keating, and Kris Inu all of interest) is either a massive media beat up fuelled by greedy player managers, or a genuine embarrassment for the Canterbury club.
If there is any truth to this, when the Eels and Bulldogs next play, the Dogs may as well roll over in defeat given their management clearly concedes that almost 1/3 of the current Parra run on side, including 3 of the key playmakers, are better than the incumbents at their own club.
And before anyone mentions the “Canterbury 4″ that moved to Parra during the Super League War, that was clearly an unusual and unprecedented set of circumstances, that saw 4 players (among others) make an ideological choice in a political war.
Daniel Mortimer should remain an Eel (8)
February 20th, 2010
You’re both right. I don’t mean to actually blame Hayne for what happened on that fateful night in the Cross. As much as I hold to the theory that nothing good happens after 2am, especially in Kings Cross, the bloke is entitled to a night out and is certainly not at fault for being shot at by some nutbag. This incident is probably not relevant to my main point that Hayne is young and needs time to get used to the fame and adulation of the public before being made into a “face of the game”.
Good guy Hindmarsh a safe bet for the NRL (22)
February 15th, 2010
set to the tune of a great old Tina Turner song perhaps?
Can’t say it hasn’t worked in the past…
Good guy Hindmarsh a safe bet for the NRL (22)
February 10th, 2010