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Old bloke who played lots of sports in his younger days including Rugby, Aussie Rules, baseball & Squash .... Passionate Roosters supporter for over 50 years
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Mary if that is the case and they have an understanding of the game and some serious business acumen to go with it, I am all for it
What's the point of the ARLC mandating one female board member?
Mary, if we have women with the knowledge of the game and the business acumen to be there, then I am all for it.
I will add that there needs to be a female perspective put into the game, especially where it comes to seeing that young players coming trough the system get the best education they can get as well as how we transition players out of the game into everyday life. They all cannot be employed by Fox & 9 or end up in a coaching roll with a club.
What's the point of the ARLC mandating one female board member?
Mary, the question I ask is there any females out there wishing to be on the NRL board?
I am not one for mandates & quotas but qualified & knowledgeable fits my criteria
What's the point of the ARLC mandating one female board member?
Aspirations are best kept to ones self. There is absolutely nothing wrong or egotistical about inspiring yourself to be the best you can. In fact it is commendable. However, Latrell needs to learn keep his own counsel.
Prove yourself on the footy field is how you show how good you are and right now you are not a bulls roar from the bottom of the above list let alone the likes of Arthur Beetson and Johnathon Thurston who I do not believe I ever heard blowing their own trumpet to any extent.
Can Latrell become Indigenous Australian rugby league GOAT or is he just kidding himself?
You are only as good as the audience you attract and the revenue you generate.
However if we do not look after development pathways right across the board there will be no elite top grade in the future. I believe just focusing on the top level is a recipe for disaster.
If NRL players want more money they need to stop sulking and start strutting
well what can I say ……?
Then again some days later the NRL is not denying it so who knows at least no one can blame me for making it up 😊
Bennett says rebel league won't happen while V'landys bites back at clubs as NRL's funding feud with players gets even uglier
I can only go from the newspaper report of 415,000 per day. I took it as per week I have just gone and read it again and it says according to Mr Rothfield $415,000 per day purely on administration
If that is correct then it is $ 2.9 mil per week and $150 mil P/A
The income is generated by the clubs and yes not all clubs are run well but at least half are well run so your comment about a breakaway league not lasting may have some merit but that depends on who actually runs it. If run by 2-3 of the more highly competent and business literate club Chairmen it could be a goer.
However my point is that the money is going on huge admin and not to the grass roots to grow the game.
When any organisation becomes top heavy they generally fail or requite a huge restructure.
Bennett says rebel league won't happen while V'landys bites back at clubs as NRL's funding feud with players gets even uglier
I made a point when PVL was elected to his job that I was concerned about “empire building” well the little empire that Peter has built now costs some $415,000 per day to run in wages and administration /travel costs. That is just the NRL head office $1.6 million per month for the big boys club.
None of that is for grass roots footy but just to run the show. Reality check needed all around with the NRL in my book
Bennett says rebel league won't happen while V'landys bites back at clubs as NRL's funding feud with players gets even uglier
Also many saying that he is NOT the problem and I agree. St George is run like an old boys club and from my perspective have had a second rate administration/management side to the club for a long time.
Just because you are a footy legend of the club or a favourite son does not make you a decent manager/ administrator.
Simple hard fact of the corporate world. Incompetent boards run incompetent companies.
Why Bulldogs should hand captaincy to The Foxx after Jackson’s surprise retirement
Tom considering the work load he has carried over the years in an under-performing team coupled with the recent publicity about Paul Green and former team mate James Graham, his decision to retire has come as no real surprise. A real honest player who has always given his best.
Why Bulldogs should hand captaincy to The Foxx after Jackson’s surprise retirement
5 grand finals 3 wins
25 in 25: Best coach in NRL era - Bellamy, Bennett or Robinson the king of clipboard carriers?
5 grand finals winning three
25 in 25: Best coach in NRL era - Bellamy, Bennett or Robinson the king of clipboard carriers?
Taking your team to a grand final is the ultimate in coaching. To do so you have to be constantly winning games. So if you add these statistics the three nominated at the top of the tree are truly great coaches of the past 25 years
Craig Bellamy 525 games @ winning 69.3% +3 NRL Premierships
Wayne Bennett 888 games @ winning 62.5% + 4 NRL Premierships
Trent Robinson 258 games @ winning 64.3% + 3 NRL Premierships
Of the up and comers mentioned both Payten & Seibold are under 50% wins, however in his first season Craig Fitzgibbon has won 18 from 26 @ 69.2% which I believes rates an honourable mention.
25 in 25: Best coach in NRL era - Bellamy, Bennett or Robinson the king of clipboard carriers?
Anecdotally, I reckon there’s heaps more head to head contact and defenders shoulder to attackers head contact (as opposed to the old coat hanger style high tackle where contact was made with the forearm)
I take it Baz that you mean in the game to-day…I agree and as you stated about wrapping up the ball.
You tackle a bloke hard enough around the legs he is going to the ground at a rapid rate and is not going to get a pass away anyway.
What annoys me is that full force body contact bounces the brain around anyway and we really need to bring back the line distance to 5 metres if not 7. We have massive blokes running at each other from 10 metres.
When they introduced the 10 metres we did not have as many huge specimens playing the game as we do to-day.
Once upon a time a bloke at 17 Stone (100-108 kilo) was a big forward now we have players at 20 -22 stone (125-135 kilo) running full bore at each other.
Solomona hits Keary with a (legit) full frontal tackle Keary brain is sure going to do some bouncing around inside his melon. It all adds up over a career in the game.
Tackling head knocks head-on: dealing with concussions requires leadership not politics
Baz, Like your perspective and like me you probably grew up with hard tough Rugby league. I have a question that I would like to throw out there. It would be interesting to see the statistics for head hit numbers from the 70’s & 80’s compared to the past 10 years or so for as you say the tackling style has changed dramatically. Not only that we have huge blokes running at each other from 10 meters apart where it used to be 5.
It also should be remembered that even a decent hard front on tackle bounces your brain around pretty severely . How many have we seen self inflicted from poor tackle technique as to 20 years ago?
Tackling head knocks head-on: dealing with concussions requires leadership not politics
Tony, the first hit may have been by Radley who was sin binned not Burgess on Tedesco. Regardless, surely you have lost the plot when sin bin a bloke a second time for exactly the same thing and do not send him off.
I also not to-day that both JWH & Radley will both do extensive anger management training during the season break but I reckon the absence of Tedesco leadership during that game did not help matters much either
'I didn't think there was much in them': Burgess supports JWH after they cop bans from fiery final
There is a fine line between a sin bin and a send off. Possibly if the first illegal hit of the day, which I believe was on Tedesco had been a send off it may well have put a more sobering context on the rest of the game.
We may have differing opinions regarding the severity of the hit on Tedesco however it was always going to be a pretty volatile game and had Kline stamped his authority early in the game we may well have seen a far better game and 6 less sin bins.
'I didn't think there was much in them': Burgess supports JWH after they cop bans from fiery final
Regardless of your opinion of the only national newspaper this country still has, the comments section has nothing whatsoever to do with the sports section and the opinion of a very well respected sports columnist who also writes for the Roar.
I would give far more credence to Brent Read in the Oz than that gossip columnist Phil that writes for the telegraph.
Though I do agree about Turbo and what he said about “mates” in the team.
NRL News: Ticket fiasco enrages fans, Hasler, DCE fight to keep jobs, Bronco plays with collapsed lung, Croker faces ban
Mate there is far too much detailed information from more that one source about an internal conflict within the club it is not just about players.
The point I am trying to make is that besides the depleted roster there are other things happening that may well be distracting the players to a fair degree.
Now some of it may get “beaten up” by some of the media but there seems to be internal discord within the club.
There were specific names in an article in this mornings Australian newspaper with Brent Read’s name on it which I do not think is a beat up considering the author and the publication
NRL News: Ticket fiasco enrages fans, Hasler, DCE fight to keep jobs, Bronco plays with collapsed lung, Croker faces ban
Barry, with all due respect there is a degree of truth about the rift within the club.
Something is seriously wrong within that club and it is not just about captaincy or Hasler’s coaching.
As for Turbo, good teams should be in a position to survive without one player missing regardless of how good he may well be. Prime example was the Roosters with 2 top wingers missing last week and still beat the Bunnies.
NRL News: Ticket fiasco enrages fans, Hasler, DCE fight to keep jobs, Bronco plays with collapsed lung, Croker faces ban
I am happy if it is on your opposition number big bloke on big bloke…. as long as that is where it stays. but sadly with some everyone is a target
NRL News: Bellamy hopes NAS not targeted, Broncos deserved Walters' spray, May fined, Ponga, Mann cleared
Snowy How hard is it to fix just slow down the ruck & play the ball
Held……..Clear the ruck……mark up ……ok play the ball. Not this rubbish of playing the ball on the head of the bloke that just tackled you.
Th actual rules of Rugby league state you must not play the ball until the ruck is clear.
However you will not find that in the “NRL interpretations ” mate we no longer play to the actual rules you and I would have played by …..it’s their own set of rules …..wrong rules too
'The game's harder to watch': Sterlo's surprise backhander to the NRL
Kent, it was one hell of a team for sure and even as a Roosters supporter I still admired that Parra team. When you have a team that good and not a “big head ego” amoung them how could you not admire them. Ray Price was a neighbour down the road ay Georges Hall.
He was a bloody nice bloke
'The game's harder to watch': Sterlo's surprise backhander to the NRL
Mate, I thought he & Rabbs without Phil were a great combination.
I recall one night Rabbs took ill at the last minute and Peter called the game and did a pretty good job of it too.
'The game's harder to watch': Sterlo's surprise backhander to the NRL
I hate catch 22 questions. If I knew the answer to that then I would not have asked the question in the first place
What's the point of the ARLC mandating one female board member?