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"Can't be bagging players that are under contract & want to leave the club when the club does the very same. I think Matto has a lot to offer & if trained right he would be an asset. "
"Been gone for 2 years almost and he's still living rent free.Got to move on sometime.Obviously some never will."
"Yeah BMS took over Stan Fox's horses from Jack Denham after he resigned as their trainer.
Nebo Lodge was their stable."
Nebo Lodge was their stable."
"Spot on I reckon with the trainers."
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Good on him, win for the little guys 🤣
Interesting on the back of the Ponga TPA drama, social media lit up about investigating the Roosters and now this.
"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys" Emma Bull
Roosters are losing heaps of players next season but, so doubt it has anything to do with the salary cap. Fifita just wants to stay in QLD
If you gave your top 30 each $100 , 000 in TPAs registered or otherwise while paying $100,000 unders on the salary cap you'd have the equivalent of 4 state of origin players left on your cap.
The issue is not how much the Roosters have on the cap but how much more they can squeeze out of it.
The NRL are reactive and with TPAs in the media with Ponga and fans in an uproar ,undue interest highlighting shady TPA deals is bad for business.
Bup, Great post & quote by Bull. She's right: The truth is often hidden in the shadows of the night. Stranger than fiction.
The thing is, if Politis were the Eels' Emperor, our Tall Poppy, would we want his head as much?
Should we cut all the Tall Poppies down to help the rest, or lift the rest to lift the game?
Bear in mind, the NRL's and clubs' golden goose, TV and Pay TV, rely on a high-quality product that could thin as the talent is spread more thinly (helping elite clubs even more) in the Vlandy's expanded universe all about speed and attack, attack, attack.
The NRL's tight-as-a-chicken's-arse hard-line cap benefits smarter-run, elite clubs that can be more "creative" and "adaptive" outside the hard-line cap - more intelligently with greater resources behind them.
Clubs like us who may have been able to put more money into buying players (2016 style) are too dumb to execute it well.
Again, if the system allowed money that wants to flow into the game, flow into the game for dumber clubs not just the elite who already do it cleverly - it would help more clubs.
That coupled with a softer cap that would line the NRL's coffers with some elite taxed money (most hidden of course) for going over the cap or having one too many internationals and Origin players - would be better allround for more clubs.
It would also help make the NRL more efficient. Stop wasting time and resources being like part time Nazi stormtroopers of the Empire.
Bup, Fox sports reported manly had $1.5million spread over 15players of unreported TPAs in 2018-2019 I think. That is 100k each so there is precedent for it.
The penalty was only $650,000 onto salary cap for few years but it avoided major media scrutiny. I was surprised Fox sports even reported it but it was hidden in the Kalyn Ponga story.
Bup - you get it. Nothing overt, nothing crazy, all of it in house and all of it controlled exclusively by Uncle Nick so there's no paper trail. One would imagine they would limit the payments only to the elite so the workers probably get market rates. (Butchers, Tupinoua, Watson etc)
NRL is the formula one of rugby league. A 5% increase in speed is the difference between first place and last. 3-4 Rep players (Tedesco, Manu, Young, Sualii) vs 3-4 non-rep players (Lane, Cartwright, Simmonson, Harper etc) The Roosters always have that unfair advantage.
Apparently he expressed some cold feet and then they said forget it. They have jumped in to say they ended it not him. I doubt that, unless this Ponga drama spooked them. But even then, the Ponga situation is nothing really either. No rules were broken in NRL terms, the NRL have basically told Ponga and Newcastle this is between you two as the TPA is legally registered. Anything to do with payment is on them.
Wow. If media reports are true about Fifita expressing "doubt" about the move to which the Roosters who withdrew their offer in the best interests of their club (good move), it makes you wonder what the doubt was and what is about the Titans that kept him coming back for more. Was it just about extra dosh and their coastal lifestyle, staying in a comfort zone? I wonder...
If this were a love story and not a footy story, it would have fabled Mills and Boon potential.
The long-suffering stud of a man, Prince Hercules, desired by many but unattainable for most and decent fella by all accounts, was married to Princess Tatiana for years living in a castle by a sunny beach enjoying their great spoils and riches. They had a decent marriage despite the occasional hurricanes they faced in sea-side luxury.
Looking for greener pastures and something more, somewhat curious and enlivened by the taste of newness and promise of romance, he has a few selective one-nighters with the hottest mistresses on the books. The highly-urbanized, mesmerizing Polly and rural-set Ivanka. The latter, is known for being the most sought-after and hardest-working wife-to-be that a man could hope for.
Soon after, he tells his wife heartbroken and disappointed Princess and Uncle Hazzles, who understands the hormonal surges of the young stud, he's planning to leave for his hot mistress Polly and her even more powerful Mediterranean Ponzy family with lands ruled by King Nick II for over a century.
But, he tosses and turns at the whispers in the night. Soon after, as soon as he has to sign the divorce papers he gets a cold sweat and cold feet. He can't do it. There's too much doubt about what lies ahead and what he's leaving behind.
Polly and Ivanka block his number and all socials to do with the Prince.
As if it was destined from all along, he goes back to his Princess, who jumps on him and embraces him - cue the Notebook scene. Uncle Dazzles and Gordlez sheds tears of joy. And the Gods smile. They live happily ever after, hurricanes and all.
Bit dissappointed there Hoey, I was sure when Ivanka got involved Trump would have been seen paying off the porn star and taking the money from the kids piggy bank to do so.
Good story just the same, whats was the name of that book again Miles and Boon, I have read the prequel Miles pays Boon to come Qld and pay the for Tassies entrance into the AFL but is stopped by the cost of Electricity in the Sunshine State.
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