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"Pezet should play 20+ games for us. We'll be paying him what he's worth (to us).
There is huge demand for halves and Pezet is one of the best available, especially for long term value. He could have gotten $1M from plenty of clubs. But not from us,…"
There is huge demand for halves and Pezet is one of the best available, especially for long term value. He could have gotten $1M from plenty of clubs. But not from us,…"
"No chance in hell he's on mill per in Brisbane let me reiterate zero chance.If 600 is the going rate for part time players Parra will be paying close to a mill for anything that looks decent coming in the door if at all.
600 again is too much for a…"
600 again is too much for a…"
"Fuck the club bro, we ain't winning shit with the clowns on that board"
"He is bullshitting you. This kid is 18 and just spent the year playing for his school team. When SBW was 18 he was already playing reserve grade and dominating against grown men."
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lol Chewbacca Wilson, just when you thought this drink driving hack couldn't get any more embarrassing and the rubbish written about the club couldn't get any worse she comes up with this. Bravo Bourbon Bec you have done an amazing job of lowering the bar to record lows.
As a curtesy to readers you also usually cut and paste the article.
It also stops her from getting clicks on her site which is all she really wants
Here's the full article for those who haven't had their breakfast yet. BTW, you don't need to be a subscriber to read the article. The story comes up when searching "Parramatta Eels"
The story does not come up when the link is used to access the story from another site, the link takes you to a "subscribe page". Funny that.
Watching them against Manly on Thursday night and you see a team that believes in each other, a coach who apparently knows what he is doing (something that I never thought would happen) and a list that has the potential to become a really, really good football team.
But here’s the catch. A very, very big one. There are about 700,000 catches, actually, because that’s how many documents the NRL are wading through in an effort to get to the bottom of a salary cap crisis that will make Melbourne’s indiscretions in 2010 look like child’s play.
The club has been cheating. It is a very hard thing to say and even harder for the Eels incredibly loyal and fanatical fans to stomach. But there is no doubt that the shonky backroom deals, the third party agreements, the overpayments have been going on for such a long time now that the Integrity Unit at the NRL is not even close to nailing the full extent of the disaster.
What we do know is this — a series of Parramatta boards, managers and staff have indulged in such high range salary cap exploitation that it is impossible to just consign it to history and say “that was then”. It has almost become generational.
If a board member (fill in any name you like here) has been anywhere within a bull’s roar of that Eels boardroom, he is likely to have been party to deals that were not just rife but minuted because they were so, well, normal.
The blame game has been played out through the media. One set of leaks points the finger at a certain group. Another contradicts it and nails someone else. Then allegations of off shore deals, hidden money and ridiculously shonky third party arrangements are all rolled out without fear or favour so that it looks to all sensible people soaking this stuff up that there is not one official or administrator or board member who is not to blame.
The NRL’s Integrity Unit is busily ‘rushing’ through the 700,000 pieces of paper. At the current rate of the investigation, this might mean a resolution just after the opening of the new stadium in 2019. What a ridiculous and pointless piece of action.
Using the excuse that the issue is complicated and the paper trail long simply does not wash when a team’s season is on the line. With each week that passes, with each win that comes a genuine buzz around the side, fans are building up false hopes of what the Eels can do this season. They genuinely believe finals footy is not a pipedream.
It is time for Todd Greenberg to kill off “the investigation is ongoing and complicated” rubbish and replaces it with “where’s the axe?”.
A brutal and quick punishment must come within days. The Melbourne Storm action was swift and cruel. Two premierships wiped from their record in 2010 and a move to last place on the premiership ladder. It was ugly but fast.
So, too, the Bulldogs who lost 37 competition points in 2002 because of salary cap breaches, taking them from first to last on the ladder. David Gallop described the violation as “exceptional in both its size and its deliberate and ongoing nature.”
All of this happened before Integrity Units were the buzz and bosses acted like bosses.
The Eels scandal is at least on this scale.
The NRL will consider asking all of the officials who have overseen any of this in a period that looks to span at least a decade to stand down.
If they don’t, they could lose anywhere between 4 and 24 points.
Unfortunately, the Eels must lose points and the bad personnel no matter what. Unlike former players like Gorden Tallis, who says players and fans cannot be penalised, the only way through cheating on this scale is to punish where it really hurts. Seeing off a bunch of dodgy bosses won’t fix the Eels problems. At Parramatta, one shonky type leaves and another takes his place.
Cleaning up their house is the only way that they can become a genuine Sydney juggernaut. The NRL cannot hide behind the document pile any longer. They know the gist of it and it is all bad news.
It is time for Todd Greenberg to kill off “the investigation is ongoing and complicated” rubbish and replaces it with “where’s the axe?”. If we thought the Storm and the Dogs were shonky, that was kindergarten compared with what the Parramatta Eels have been doing for much, much longer than Melbourne, Canterbury or anyone else in the NRL.
Wilson is a bottom feeder that feeds off bottom feeders.
"If we thought the Storm and the Dogs were shonky, that was kindergarten compared with what the Parramatta Eels have been doing for much, much longer than Melbourne, Canterbury or anyone else in the NRL"
Wilson has provided no evidence to substantiate her claims. You can bet your life she has no more evidence than we do or she would of used it in her article.
There's a difference between speculating and making up bold face lies, she'd better hope our infringements remotely resemble those of the Bulldogs and Storm.
How can the telecrap allow this story to go on line? Are there any laws preventing false claims? Is it not a prerequisite to provide evidence or at least have a reliable source to back the story should it go legal?
I agree Benj, of all the stories I've read, this one is the mostly likely to see Wilson and the telecrap defending a lawsuit.
There is sure to be many emotive responses to this article. But this matter has been going on for too long not to have some substance. Everyone wants success at Parramatta. However if the club continues to do what they are doing, it will end in total failure, and the consequences will be severe.
The past has happened and cant be changed. Its now history. The future is what counts. The only way forward is for the current administration to step down and to be replaced by an administrator. The people who have caused these problems do not have the capacity to fix it.
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