So for anyone interested, Hector brought to my attention that Ray Hadley had spoken about us again on his morning program. He mentioned he had strong mail that there is a divide due to favouritism, some players are being looked after more than others and one unfavourable player, Nathan Brown, is now being shown the door. Later, explaining the club is run by bankers #wankers as he calls them, saying not a single person in there that knows league and the chairman claims if anyone stepped out of line he would tell them off himself.
Now i like Ray Hadley's program, he does some good interviews and is not afraid to take people on. Now, none of us know if this is true or not, Hadley you would imagine would have some decent sources and this has to come from somewhere, not saying it is true though as we will never know. But i will say the bankers line is a bit stupid as what is Mark O'Neill then? Who is the general manager? Played 223 NRL games and won a premiership with Wests and has held an administrative role with an NRL club for over a decade, with Wests then us.
But let's say the BA thing is true, and there has been talk of this in the past from us including myself, but if it is true well does this mean we start playing bad to get rid of him? Moses and Mahoney, two spine players who should see majority of the eye to eye disagreeing with what the issues are, when two teammates cannot agree on the issues from Monday then what are the rest of the team saying, this gives some smoke to this rumour.
However, we have known for years Hadley has an agenda on BA. What he said about us on tuesday i nodded my head in agreeance to most of it, today's i did not know as you do not know whether to believe it or not. Hadley has an agenda for his mate Denis Fitzgerald to make the current administrators look like dimwits, he made Sharp's admin look like dimwits, which they were.
Anyway just added what was said and the rumour, a win takes it all away, winning tomorrow avoids a fortnight of chatter about our club. A loss, it is just adds fuel to the fire even more unforunately whether deserved or not. I for one am actually excited for tomorrow to see how we bounce back, is it similar to NQ when we backed up against Penrith? Let's hope so.
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Something is going on. Their form is horrendous.
It's a boys a club if you don't agree and speak up your out that is fact . From top to bottom.
Eels when winning _ Surprise / shock / Quite
When Eels Losing - Out come the old Factions. Rinse / Wash / Repeat
The best thing ever was the govt body steppin in and changing our constitution. Thank F$%^.
As Far as BA goes - how did he find a game plan to beat the Riff and the Storm, sounds like some ex CEO's some old factions and some unhappy player managers trying to get old Ray to do their bidding.
Did someone say cash for comment - yum
Hadlee is a bit early this year. He usually puts the boot in Parra around Jul/Aug. He must be running out of people to put down.
I'm not sure, LB, if we can straight conclude Mahoney and Moses are NOT seeing eye to eye. Yes, Moses says the Dogs debacle was an "attitude" thing" and Mahoneyt said it was not an attitude thing. Contradicting each other? Maybe not. Mahoney then went on to talk about the team not being "patient". And patience is an attitude: a way of thinking or feeling that affects behaviour.
Who knows, maybe Mahoney wanted to signal that he thought attutide was OK in general? Or maybe Moses has become an expert in all the footy cliches? Or maybe the senior players didn't sit down and say "WTF is going on with that sh*t" and thus didn't settle on a way to present a front to the outside? If that latter possibility is the case, maybe that suggests you are in fact right but for a different reason than the attitude/not attitude discrepancy? Instead, an essential condition of being on the same page, or seeing eye to eye, is having dissected something collectively. Maybe the team hasn't had a detailed enough pow wow amongst themselves about how they continually manage to not get off the bus?
Always interesting when two people in a team environment have different views on "attitude" , you will probably find the person with the bad attitude will tell all that there is no attitude problem.
The person trying to fix the attitude problem acknowledges it.
U never know. But wasn't Hadley the same guy that said BA has lost the dressing last year?
He said that in 2018. Not sure last year
Twice this year I've heard Moses publicly throw Mahoney under the bus , both times it was due to Mahoney not doing his job in critical times. By memory both cost us games ?
Against Melbourne I remember Moses getting flattened and Gutherson running in to which I thought was going to back Moses up and yet he gave The Storm player a bit of a cuddle and a Pat on the bum and walked away leaving Moses on the deck, which I thought was super odd.
And then Brown , yeah well as I said last night . Him getting into shitless fights with lollipop men over Jarryd Hayne getting called names probably started his downfall. He hasn't really done much since . Nothing good comes out of hanging out with Hayne , Borey and that crew.
Hadley might be a whining old dickhead , but the signs are there .
I don't think Hadley has a hidden agenda to help Fitzgerald. I actually think what Hadley is saying makes a lot of credible sense. Let's face it the Eels have been woeful this year except for their wins over Penrith and the Storm. There's definitely something wrong in the Eels camp
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