Hard to feel sorry for the bloke when he goes on national tv a few weeks ago denies any interest in a player then signs him a few short weeks later. Media and fans are absolutely crushing his credibility and it's just a bad look for the game when a player takes 500k less to join the club that Gus is the head of. Pressure will firmly be on the bulldogs this season as anything less then a title will lead to a backlash
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Ryles isn't our GM of Football. DIfferent roles need different personas.
Ryles will often play a straight bat just as Ciraldo would - and they'll often just flat out not answer by saying "I'm not in control of that" or "that's not my area".
At the same time I guarantee you that Ryles and his coaching staff have lots of conversations about team succession plans, who we should target and who we should offload, and they would NOT tell those to the players until they absolutely had to.
It's all a game, we're just not playing it very well in some areas.
The main issue is he's on Tv in a media role as well, would be no problem if it's all behind the scenes but he's on national Tv lying his ass off lol. And making pitches to players who are under contract. Either get off TV or stop being the head of football for a club imo
Moaning to the wrong person go talk to channel 9 they employ him see how that works Jesus Christ seriously.
He was praising Iongi last game that's prob his next target 😂😂
Winning by cheating and lying isn't winning no matter which way you like to paint it.
C'mon CE - let's get real. Cheating (as in breaking laws or regulations), yes I absolutely agree.
But lying? Nah. Every single time a player throws a dummy they're lying. Or grabs the back of their neck after a tackle when they're not sore...lying. Or having cramps to wind down the clock...lying.
Deception is used by everyone every day. The pearl clutching over Gus wouldn't be happening if we had an equally savvy Head of Football working for us. If we were doing the talent sniping from other clubs, we'd be loving it then.
If 100% honesty is where we draw the line as a club we will, and I can promise you this, never ever win a premiership again. Because we'll be holding ourselves to a level that no one else does.
Telling lies to win, manipulate, coerce, entice and get what you want is cheating plain and simple. It's dishonest, has zero integrity and people who practice it purposely can't ever be trusted. They're leaches.
Corruption is illegal - I could bet my bottom dollar that Gus and Moses did nothing illegal.
Did they lie? Oh heck yes. And if you've ever negotiated a contract or a bid for tender, you would have lied multiple times too. To manage multiple stakeholders (clubs, players, managers, media) and get the outcome you want, people lie. If we want our top contract negotiators to only ever tell the truth then we will never, ever land a contract. Fact of life.
I call "We want Galvin, we got Galvin" getting the job done. The Dogs did it, we failed. Plain and simple.
It's the same as people who whinge over the "salary sombrero" that the Roosters have with Politis, or the Broncos have previously had with the Thoroughbreds. The reality is the NRL is a very loosely governed body - if we don't operate to the same level of looseness then we will never win.
Of course we need to only ever operate within the law. And of course there are some areas (eg corporate governance) where we should be "by the book" 100%, but that is governed by actual law. In terms of NRL rules...if you can get away with it, then you should, because others definitely are.
💯 yet here our fans are liar liar pants on fire.
Its a laugh teams not just Gus have been walking the line for years but yet here we are.
It just seems to me like our front office our fans are 2' in front of there faces and are missing the big picture SMH.
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