NRL Hooligans thread

[BrisRecky]

Surely a game as "great" as theirs can survive through thick and thin.  I mean, zomg, they survived Super League lolz.

Some might say the NRL didnt survive Super League...they became Superleague anyway without the name change, either way they are getting closer to well and trulyed (?) every day

 

[Arabmariner]

They need to go back to being a little suburban competition.

Get a CEO who knows wtf he's doing.

Keep the players locked up at home so they can't go up the Cross.

And stop RL players being interviewed and showing potential sponsers how f**kin thick they are!

 

[FFC Mariner]

Whilst Fitzsimons is the ultimate apologist for Union and is no lover of Football, his article is absolutely spot on.

In order to try to save themselves, he recommends that they do what football did with the HAL. Trouble is, they dont have the international aspect to give them credibility or traction with sponsors.

I am now just waiting for the media to uderstand the reality and gradually move away.

Still think Fitzsimons needs a god kicking over his WC performances and comments on our game tho

 

[goingtoadisco]

Theyre in more trouble than what I thought they were. They dont know who or what to blame, and Gallop could not give a straight forward answer.

Gallop is one of the most spineless and clueless CEO's this country has ever seen.  He lives in his own spaced out little world where he seems to think that RL means something to people outside of NSW and QLD, that one dominant revenue stream for clubs is a great idea, and a salary cap as hilariously low as the one they have is an even better idea.  He's so ridiculously obsessed and blinkered with celebrating "the centenary of the greatest game of all" that he failed to see said game is tearing itself apart.

Look what it took for them to be in the position they are now.

* The A-League
* Poker machine tax increase
* A couple of boofheaded off field incidents

Surely a game as "great" as theirs can survive through thick and thin.  I mean, zomg, they survived Super League lolz.

P.S.  The hypocrisy of Gallop to stand there and deride Toulon for 'stealing Sonny Bill away' whilst he was a lawyer for News Limited doing the exact same thing thirteen years ago is f*cking laughable, and this dopey prick deserves everything he gets.   RL, please just f*ck off.

lol top post !

 

[BrisRecky]

They need to go back to being a little suburban competition.

Get a CEO who knows wtf he's doing.

Keep the players locked up at home so they can't go up the Cross.



And stop RL players being interviewed and showing potential sponsers how f**kin thick they are!

BULLSEYE!!!!!!

 

[GMK08-CS]

NRL is awesome!
Entertaining sport!
Love it.
& im a proud supporter of it.

 

[FFC Mariner]

NRL is awesome!
Entertaining sport!
Love it.
& im a proud supporter of it.

so why are you on a FOOTBALL MB when you could be at some run down 1960's suburban ground watching the "greatest games of all" in its death throes.

Ur either a WUM or a "Griffiths"

 

[GMK08-CS]

NRL is awesome!
Entertaining sport!
Love it.
& im a proud supporter of it.

so why are you on a FOOTBALL MB when you could be at some run down 1960's suburban ground watching the "greatest games of all" in its death throes.

Ur either a WUM or a "Griffiths"

Because im a massive mariners fan, im aloud to follow 2 sports!

 

[FFC Mariner]

Ah, right.

So CCM in the off season is more attractive to knuckledragger than actually supporting their code.

Hehehehehe

 

[GMK08-CS]

Ah, right.

So CCM in the off season is more attractive to knuckledragger than actually supporting their code.

Hehehehehe

I support both teams & codes & im very passionate about both the teams i support in each code, im acutally a member of both codes for mariners & the clubs i support in NRL.
I have followed NRL long before A-league came along & when it came along i started to support it.
& I have played soccer since i was 7.

 

[fedelta]

Football*

 

[GMK08-CS]

Football*

Lol sorry, i got used to calling it soccer.

 

[Bex]

NRL is awesome!
Entertaining sport!
Love it
& im a proud supporter of it.

so why are you on a FOOTBALL MB when you could be at some run down 1960's suburban ground watching the "greatest games of all" in its death throes.

Ur either a WUM or a "Griffiths"

Because im a massive mariners fan, im aloud to follow 2 sports!

Yeh, I reckon you are. I would still be watching the Eels if they could actually play a decent game of Footy once in a while. But football is definitely number 1 for me now.

 

[marinersman]

From today's SMH....... can't say I've ever agreed with Fitzsimons this much before.

Not so super

The irony of the Sonny Bill saga? It is that the wrecking ball that is now coming hard at rugby league was first launched by league itself. For you will recall that the key impact wrought by the advent of Super League - where players were paid their telephone numbers, plus a bit - was that elite rugby union was forced to turn professional to survive, for fear that all its players would disappear if it didn't. And as soon as those artificial walls of amateurism that had stood for a hundred years came a'tumbling down, we saw exactly as Ross Turnbull predicted at the time: money, entrepreneurs, serious marketing nous and all the rest flowed in, and changed the game completely. Once rugby went professional and drew on its global grandeur, it was always going to be a major threat to rugby league and that, my friends, is exactly what we're witnessing now. At the very core of the National Rugby League - the economic engine if you will - lies a Sydney suburban competition. And the bottom line is that when it comes to pulling Sonny Bill et al one way or another, that engine simply cannot muster the power necessary against the now roaring engine of elite rugby union, harnessing power from all over the world. League is now caught in a very difficult spot. It has neither the global pull of union, nor the critical mass of Aussie rules, which manages to prosper despite its lack of international pull, because it is at least a genuinely national game. The solution? There is none - but if you look at the quotes section, I think Andrew Johns is close to the mark.

Andrew Johns on how to fix rugby league: "Cut the NRL to 12 teams, reduce the number of clubs in Sydney and expand the game back to Perth and Adelaide to make it a truly national competition. That is the only way we are going to be able to increase revenue through television and gates to the point where clubs will be able to compete with the massive money on offer in the English Super League and rugby union."

Fitzsimmons can get f**ked. He's been putting shit on our game for years and continues to do it on a weekly basis.

He is a biggoted, irrelavant fool who's agenda is to mock and ridicule any sport which in his eyes threatens his kick and clap game and partcularly singles out Football like no other. This is in between promoting the ALP and the recession we had to have/banana republic Keating.

 

[dru]

oh FFS

link

Now it's the dogs

 

[Bex]

Its a bloody joke. Any team thats on the down and out is rumoured to move to the coast.

HEY NRL, READ MY LIPS, I DON'T WANT ANY OF YOUR BROKEN DOWN SYDNEY NRL TEAMS. Or any NRL team for that matter - you had your chance to establish a proper franchise here years ago with Singo's help and blew it.

 

[Alicia]

oh FFS

link

Now it's the dogs

and final sentence in the artic;e

"Everyone should be looking at Gosford."

 

[Pokes]

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,24134406-23214,00.html

Is it just me, but everything about the Bulldogs reputation...is everything the Central Coast DOESN'T want? Yuo've got contract rorters, sexual harrassment cases, the well known fact that bulldogs fans can be violent etc...

Who on the Central Coast wants to bring that reputation here? Who is the idiot offering 8 million?

 

[FFC Mariner]

Given that they have a deal to play out of ANZ, a big leagues club in W Sydney and a fanbase of sorts, there is no freakin way ever that they would come up here.

 

[Paolo]

imho the bulldogs would be the perfect team for the coast. Forza Central Coast Bulldogs