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He cut out the dead wood. Doing that is always going to tread on toes. The Knights weren’t spending any cash during his tenure and the year after he left, were able to make some astute purchases which lifted the team. He lost the dressing room, and that’s on him, but once he saw it, he stepped down. It would’ve been interesting to see how he could have gone had the Knights spent some money to give him a decent squad. The money grubbing Ramien, who signed a contract and 6 weeks later regretted it, was no huge loss. He’s a talented player but it was poor form on his part. I’m glad Brown told him to hit the road. Will be interesting to see what he can do with a promising squad at the Warriors.
Picking my 2021 NRL top eight
What do you have against Nathan Brown? He’s an excellent coach. Just because players don’t always like to be told the truth and their poor little feelings get hurt, doesn’t mean he’s a bad coach. I think the Warriors will be on the fringe of the 8.
Picking my 2021 NRL top eight
No, it’s warranted alright. They have no juniors. Aubo, Butcher and Radley are their only true juniors I believe. The rest have been poached. I will say they are very good at identifying talent…at other teams. Then they swoop in and offer more than the club that developed him as a junior can afford. Suaalii is just the latest in a long, long line. Matterson from the Eels, Keary from Souths, Flanagan from the Sharks – I could go on. Even if they were bench players, all three were slated to be first graders at their parent clubs in short order. Like I said, this is only a very short sample of a much longer list. Yes, they seem to be good at managing the cap. So good, that conservative estimates of the market value of the players estimate that the true value of the team far exceeds the salary cap. Hence the sombrero. Are we to believe that every player takes pay cuts to play there? Because every time I see Cronk getting a million, Teddy getting a million etc, I don’t see players taking a cut to play there. This is why there is so much innuendo surrounding the way the Roosters do business. Nick Politis has WAY too much influence with the NRL.
The only way forward I see is to publish the salaries of players. I know the players association is dead against it, but it works in the NBA and NFL. You want to see how much a player is on? Just a click away. Someone taking unders? Being paid overs? It’s all right there on your screen. If we could see how much every player is being paid, there would be no confusion as to how the Roosters are getting such an expensive team under the cap.
The hate for the Sydney Roosters is real – and unwarranted
I have serious doubts as to the veracity of the NRL coming out and saying the Roosters were robbed by those three incidents. Honestly, how was Cronk’s sin binning the wrong call? The only people that think that are Nick Politis and all 14 of the Roosters supporters. I can also imagine The NRL and Annesley sitting in a room somewhere, thinking…
NRL: “How can we deflect attention away from the fact that we effed up by allowing trainers on the field?”
Annesley: “I know, how about we make up a penalty in the lead up? That way, we can say the Roosters were not advantaged!”
NRL: “Great idea! Let’s do that!”
Having said that, I’m one of the ‘conservatives’ that never wanted two referees on the field at the one time. The more people we can get off the field (trainers, superfluous referees) the better.
Correct decision or follow the process: What's a ref to do?
So James Tamou playing for Australia was OK? Civoniceva too? Karmichael Hunt choosing Qld and Australia over NZ? There are many, many others I can’t remember off the top of my head. Or how about New South Welshman Greg Inglis choosing Qld? People have been choosing their country of allegiance for years and Australia has been the absolute worst at it. I don’t care if Austin plays. Let him. If he’s better than what they have, it should drive the local players to up their game.
Blake Austin playing for England is a disgrace
So, you must either support Souths or the Roosters, because merging them is what makes the most sense. You suggest they leave a club like the Roosters, with few supporters and even less juniors, as a stand alone entity? You said end the star players as protected species, how about the teams? Roosters are as protected as they come. Is it because of Uncle Nick? Is that why people are too afraid to have these hard conversations and mention the Roosters for fear of… what exactly? If the Roosters didn’t have seemingly endless financial resources, they’d be down with the Titans. NRL needs to stop protecting them first and foremost. People like you need to include them in the difficult conversations of mergers and relocations. Otherwise they remain protected.
Seven steps to save the NRL
The key point in all this is your very last line – he was almost stopped in the tackle. If he was allowed to keep running, he would have been ahead of the ball and it would have LOOKED backwards as well. It only looked forwards because he was stopped. Nearly every single flat pass from a player at speed is forward by the rule of “is the ball caught in front of where it was passed?” because of momentum.
Rugby league's demand for consistency means rugby league is consistently wrong
So you’d rather they be hypocrites…
“Don’t do drugs kids!” all the while smashing the nose beers in the privacy of their own homes.
I’m angry at their abject stupidity. They earn more money in one season than I’ll earn in five years to a decade, yet they decide to spend it on illicit drugs and engage in an illegal act. In a room where people have their phones out filming the whole thing. It’s just dumb. Like Sheldon, it makes me sad when people are stupid. These two are more stupid than most.
The 'white powder' dilemma: Why the NRL has no business sticking its nose in