https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...2bbffcdfd35bdb
Stunned.Wests Tigers centre BJ Leilua has questioned why NRL CEO Todd Greenberg is only taking a 25 per cent pay cut when the 480 NRL players have been forced to take a 75 per cent cut.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...2bbffcdfd35bdb
Stunned.Wests Tigers centre BJ Leilua has questioned why NRL CEO Todd Greenberg is only taking a 25 per cent pay cut when the 480 NRL players have been forced to take a 75 per cent cut.
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What we knew all along.
The Nine Network has accused the NRL of mismanagement ahead of the league’s plans to resume its competition that was halted by the coronavirus.
The Nine Network has launched a scathing attack on the NRL, accusing the league of mismanagement and breaking its lucrative broadcast deal.
The statement comes on the same day league central is expected to announce plans to resume its competition halted by the coronavirus.
It’s understood the network is furious with being left out of discussions on what the season would look like should it recommence.
The free-to-air broadcaster took aim at NRL’s financial management, which has left clubs and players facing uncertain futures.
“At Nine we had hoped to work with the NRL on a solution to the issues facing rugby league in 2020, brought on so starkly by COVID-19,” the statement read.
“But this health crisis in our community has highlighted the mismanagement of the code over many years.”
The comments also come after weeks of speculation surrounding the future of current NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg.
Greenberg is currently in the final year of his contract.
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“Nine has invested hundreds of millions in this game over decades and we now find they have profoundly wasted those funds with very little to fall back on to support the clubs, the players and supporters,” the statement continued.
“In the past the NRL have had problems and we’ve bailed them out many times, including a $50m loan to support clubs when the last contract was signed.
“It would now appear that much of that has been squandered by a bloated head office completely ignoring the needs of the clubs, players and supporters
https://www.theroar.com.au/2020/04/0...ary-statement/
Fox did a top twenty players of the NRL era that was a right shambles. The whole game is coming apart at the seams.
They reckon they will be back by the 28th of May which cant be realistic.
I don't understand how you can play rugby (or football, or most things) at any level while the government have social distancing measures in place.
I think Super League expects a government bailout somewhere down the line (after all, they would happily have kept playing), but there hasn't been the chimp out about it like the NRL simply because they knew right away that they would have to make some serious financial decisions. The NRL seemingly expected to sail through it, only to then realise that there wasn't a massive WARCHEST after all, and hang on where is my million a year coming from?
Not that this excuses Fox putting Greg Inglis above Brad Fittler and Johnathan Thurston in their top twenty. They left out Jamie Lyon as well the maniacs.
Cheif Medical Officer has told the NRL to pull their heads in. Apparently they hadnt even contacted the Govenment about the season restart. Lol
James Graham said it was news to the players as well.
The Queensland Premeir has told the NRL to well and truly get fucked. And they own Lang Park, the Gabba and the Cowboys new stadium.
She said she wont let the Sydney teams cross the border.
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Our Queensland Premier said their wont be an Origin this year. Lol
https://www.facebook.com/95683517460...6941724442461/
Good. There was a Kangaroos tour scheduled for the end of the season, and the chumps were clearly going to ditch that for boring State of Origin.
We need seperate State Leagues for 5 years.
The Republic of QLD has enough talent for a State League.
I'll order that to wear with the corked hat.
Get Quade Cooper's name and number on the back.
Bring back Super League please. Thursdays and Friday nights are the worst.
I'm a twit
I will lol for a week if they accidently recreate a second competition by forcing non Sydney teams to live in Sydney for 4 months.
Channel 7 Sports presents the Australian Super League.
These attempts to try and get sport going are absolutely pathetic and will not work. Here's why: https://www.si.com/.amp/mlb/2020/04/...mpression=true
Pathetic is probably hunting for a reaction a bit much. You can’t blame people for exhausting avenues to get their business up and running or people for wishing for their normality back.
He's just desperate for that to be the narrative.
It isn't and won't be.
I've only read a couple of paragraphs of that but the general tenor seems to be that you can't play sport (of any kind) whilst trying to maintain a zero contact total lockdown. Well no fucking shit. We'll just ignore the fact that that isn't actually happening anywhere. 'Behind closed doors' sport is no less feasible than the continuing operation of large scale warehouses, maybe not as essential, but at some point in the not too distant future some form of lockdown loosening is going to happen. Perhaps the context of that is America which may be different due to the scale of the problem.
“If people just decide to let it burn in most areas and we do lose a couple million people it’d probably be over by the fall,” says Binney. “You’d have football. You’d also have two million dead people. And let’s talk about that number. We’re really bad at dealing with big numbers. That is a Super Bowl blown up by terrorists, killing every single person in the building, 24 times in six months. It’s 9/11 every day for 18 months. What freedoms have we given up, what wars have we fought, what blood have we shed, what money have we spent in the interest of stopping one more 9/11? This is 9/11 every day for 18 months.”
There are all sorts of things that are 9/11 everyday FOREVER (probably 9/11 x 10) and yet we still sell supersized big mac meals and let everyone slowly kill themselves with tobacco.
I'm genuinely (well, sort of, maybe not really) concerned that the outcome of all this will be absolutist nutbars embarking on a 'whataboutery' crusade for all the other shit (good) things we used to be allowed to have/do in the name of public health.
First on the block, Adamski's takeaway last night.
Easily the most shameful treatment of a CEO I have ever seen. The amount of wife bashers that were constantly abusing her online was disturbing. Without a doubt most wouldnt have seen a second of Union in their lives.
I guess the next CEO will again live in Eastern Sydney.
https://www.espn.com.au/rugby/story/...ul-mclean-saysRaelene Castle was a victim of "abhorrent" social media bullying that meant her position as Rugby Australia chief executive had been discussed for a period of six months, interim chairman Paul McLean has revealed.
McLean admitted to being appalled by what Castle had shown him over the past few months, and hit out at sections of the media who had promoted misinformation, as both external and internal forces brought about her resignation on Thursday evening.
A meeting on Wednesday night "crystalised" the board's thinking before McLean informed Castle on Thursday that she no longer had its support, a position to which she had previously confirmed would result in her walking away from the game.
"One of my greatest concerns with Raelene was her welfare and how she was on a daily basis because a lesser person would have thrown the towel in ages ago, quite simply," McLean told reporters on a conference call on Friday.
Best team of all time.
Steve Roach is funniest sideline man Ive ever heard.
@Lewis
This team made Wayne Bennett
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He's a right headache as a pundit these days, so he must have lost his mind.
Those nineties Brisbane teams were obscene. Do people tend to rate that one or the 1997/1998 winners as the better side?
I reckon the 98 team looks the best on paper. That forward pack is enormous. Also Craig Bellamy was the Assistant coach.
BRONCOS: Darren Lockyer, Michael De Vere, Steve Renouf, Darren Smith, Wendell Sailor, Kevin Walters, Allan Langer (c), Shane Webcke, Phillip Lee, Andrew Gee, Gorden Tallis, Brad Thorn, Tonie Carroll. Reserves: Michael Hancock, John Plath, Kevin Campion, Petero Civoniceva
The third party agreements on that lot must have been astonishing.
They will have been paying overs, but it might actually not have been all that bent. The salary cap at the time allowed for the inflated legacy contracts from Super League, and they soon lost a few big players to union and our Super League (Steve Renouf was shit hot for Wigan, who will have been paying him loads). I bet the halves were getting extras, but there was probably no need to be dodgy across the board.
The Origin and Kangaroos money would also have been a lot as well.
Im trying to think of when the salary cap became an issue.
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It seems that punishment for breaching it only came in in 2000, and the NRL website has a partial list of all the breaches. Nobbling Canterbury in 2002 looks like the point it became serious, since they will have been happy to turn a blind eye to stuff like Newcastle bumping certain people up.
2002 Roosters were very suss.
Brett Mullins though
ROOSTERS
1. Luke Phillips - Gone
2. Brett Mullins - Gone
3. Shannon Hegarty - Gone
4. Justin Hodges - Gone
5. Anthony Minichiello
6. Brad Fittler (capt) - Gone
7. Craig Wing
8. Jason Cayless - Gone
9. Simon Bonetti - Gone
10. Peter Cusack - Gone
14. Adrian Morley - Gone
12. Craig Fitzgibbon
13. Luke Ricketson - Gone
11. Bryan Fletcher - Gone
15. Andrew Lomu - Gone
16. Chris Flannery
17. Michael Crocker - Gone
Adrian Morley would have played for free.
God he was scary.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-...tions/12193882Latrell Mitchell, Josh Addo-Carr charged with firearms offences, NRL hands out hefty fines
No bloody way the NRL goes ahead this year.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...2613aa21f472aaThe Daily Telegraphreports that Deputy Premier John Barilaro has warned that the NSW Government could shut down the season restart if another player breaches guidelines.
“This is the warning shot,” Barilaro told The Daily Telegraph.
“When the game gets going again, no player can breach the rules.
“Once the NRL competition is up and running, players must understand their actions could have broader ramifications for the entire game.
Paul 'Kenty' Kent calling them out for 'playing the culture card' surprised me. He's right, but they usually tiptoe right around that.
Oooffff
Just read Paul Kents spray.
https://coupler.foxsports.com.au/api...d8d7634652b785
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They were probably going to until Nathan Cleary's lie fell to bits.
Yeah what a chancer
Dave Alred has been at Ballymore this whole time during lockdown. If he can turn one of those blokes into Johnny Mk2 Ill pass the hat around for statue outside Suncorp.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_cPvg6F...=1xf2yn1o5kt2h
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Latest update on the NRL is players refusing to get the flu vaccine.
No jab no play.
No surprise the God bothering Samoans being the loudest about it.
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I'd imagine there's a strong anti-vax sentiment in the 'Islander' community, seeing as they seem to be pretty batshit by every other conceivable standard.
Yeah, I'd imagine it's a bit of a perfect storm.
BilL GAtEs iS TryINg TO pOISoN eVReYoNE!
What's the logic behind compulsory flu jabs though - so flu symptoms don't become confused with coronavirus symptoms?