What happens now? Players want their new pay deal ratified or will not turn up to training on Monday which will hold up the competition return. The tail is wagging the dog.
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"Need way more than that, majority of the players signed would be their depth. Even that is rubbish. As Johnny mentioned too, juniors will be hard to come by.
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"They need a gun fullback and another forward who's a big name "
"Precisely. Just makes me think someone at NRL HQ - and we all know who - got a very large suitcase of cash from the WA state government for agreeing to this. "
"they will feed on ours."
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"Chiefy, who is their coach again? For the sake of the game, they need to be going ok in the first 5 yrs; and if I was a player and got offered a deal their, I would look at it but having Meninga as coach is a concern. Their strength needs to come…"
"As others have said, we need our main players to be playing each week or 80% of the games; we do that and we make the 8.
Ref's won't come into it for me - as we will make our own luck if we do the simple things well. We are also 12 months deeper in…"
Ref's won't come into it for me - as we will make our own luck if we do the simple things well. We are also 12 months deeper in…"
"Has there been any updat on this?"
"We have a tough first few games against Storm, Broncs and Panthers but some very winnable games against Dragons, Tigers and Tits. I'd be content with 3-3 and over the moon with 4-2 given how we started last year. "
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"As always Poppa, i love your tribute to Semi....and he deserves it. what a star. That is an excellent idea to enlist him as a Ambassador and scout in his region. His profile as the Great that he was would be of untold benefit to our club. Relay that…"
"In my younger days Pops late 90s early 2000s we had a 7s team that used to travel upto Fiji and play village tournaments.Onething that struck me about Fijians is there wasn't an ounce of fat on them they could all run and everybody every type of…"
"You've certainly noticed some great talent there Coryn, our club should have a look. I agree most union players are eyeing off the coming RU world cup and wouldn't like to swap codes until it's over. But if we were so inclined it wouldn't hurt to…"
"I'm not sure if many of them have ever started a first grade game. 90% of the bears are bench players "
"That intercept try he scored against Souths where he took it on our line and ran 100, it looked like he was jogging and no one got near him. "
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I'm in the players corner here. They agreed to a 75% pay cut until the game could restart, and I agree it was necessary, but if they are going to start playing again, and presumably getting broadcast income flowing again, then the players want to know what their pay arrangements are going to be, and fair enough.
The 75% cut was for the duration of when the game wasn't operating, once it starts operating and the game gets some cash flow the players deserve to be paid accordingly. The NRL has thus far not addressed this concern, however I'm sure they will. The players desperatley want to start playing again, but they don't want to be taken for granted, and fair enough.
The other issue is around the Warriors. They have to be in quarantine for 14 days after they arrive before they can start training. The Warriors players are understandably concerned that this hasn't been nailed down yet, and they aren't prepared to commit to traveling across the ditch and then being in quarantine without a deal in place. Again, fair enough I say.
There is an agreement already in place if the competion resumes,the players get 29.5 pc of any revenue from then on, it is not yet known how much that will be. The players and that wanna be Newton continue to throw up road blocks , cance the comp for gods sake and let these self entilted shits cry about that, I had hopes the comp wopuld resume on rhe 28th, not any more.
Thats fine if they dont - no-one wins. Seriously both fox and ch 9 could be stubborn too in light of the players behaviours this week. No-one wins. AFL will be back soon as will some o/seas soccer....there will be sport to watch somewhere. The marbles has even taken off.....
Well the Belorussian Premier League has been playing this whole time. It's the only professional sport that has continued operating uninterrupted.
Yes Brett and its good stuff. I congratule those Belorussians, a tough race.
i agee with the playes but the reality is that they will play. They are fully paid up untilk the end of May whic means they are obligated to turn up and train, after that they wont get paid a cent. All of the players i have spoken to are so worried abou their next paycheck, despite some of these players being marquee players that they would do anything to get back and play.
All of the club officials i have spoken to are also confident of the game restarting. Storm in a teacup
As long as our guys want to turn up and train i dont give a crap what the others do