40 - 6

[stsae]

Meanwhile disregarding heritage and culture. Ay, Sydney City?

Member's get to buy the club back for $1. I'm sure you don't remember that point. Great profit no?



BHAHAHA. Crowe does it for the money? He has yet to see a cent in profit from the club. Yet he's sticking with it.

Black and white flabbits and strips on the FreddyKrueger jumper??? Tradition or economic reality, like say a name change???

$1 is all it will be worth IF Phonechukka decides to get rid of an investment gone sour.

Hes sticking a carrot up his clakka is what hes doing.

[supermario]

Meanwhile disregarding heritage and culture. Ay, Sydney City?

Member's get to buy the club back for $1. I'm sure you don't remember that point. Great profit no?



BHAHAHA. Crowe does it for the money? He has yet to see a cent in profit from the club. Yet he's sticking with it.

No, the heritage and culture is still there, it has just expanded to cover Sydney. if you actually knew your facts, you would understand that Eastern Suburbs district rugby Football league still run the roosters

Thats over one hundred years of herritage and culture, unlike some other clubs, we are the only club to be in the top grade for 100 years continuously.

As to the members being able to buy back the club for $1, yeah good on them, i still think that is over priced but that aside, can you tell me where the souffs profits go??? i mean souffs made a profit last year, the herald announced it........i guess the Directors of Black league PTY LTD (the owning company of souffs) would be happy with that profit......................lets see, one of the directors is phone chucker !!! What a suprise.

Now just continuing with the "members can buy it back for $1" thing, thats all well and good.........................if crowe and phac sell the club back to members.......................but what will happen if they sell their share of black league pty ltd, they are not selling souffs, but the company that owns them, i guess that they may someone gullible enough to buy the company, giving Phone chucker and nice and hefty profit. in the words of some gangata rapper 'it's all about the Dolla' dolla'"

So in the end, all you can rely on is the "good will" of an actor and a mediocre business man that was involved in the recent AWB wheat scandal.


i would rather trust a used car salesman................

[Guest]

No, the heritage and culture is still there, it has just expanded to cover Sydney. if you actually knew your facts, you would understand that Eastern Suburbs district rugby Football league still run the roosters

"Expanded to cover sydney" no wonder it's not just Souths who hate the roostas. But every other Sydney club too

can you tell me where the souffs profits go??? i mean souffs made a profit last year, the herald announced it........i guess the Directors of Black league PTY LTD (the owning company of souffs) would be happy with that profit......................lets see, one of the directors is phone chucker !!! What a suprise.

Herald was wrong according to the member's info I have. But still Souths have the best balance. (With NO pokie machines)

RE: your opinion on Crowe/PHaC we could continue forever regarding that. Just keep going around in circles.

[supermario]

mate, you have the over inflated opinion that crowe is the messiah, i just provide the counter balance, sorry to pop your bubble, but they are facts, your club can be sold in to the hands of people that are less "gracious" than phone chucker and phac, and the members will have no say.

[Guest]

"Expanded to cover sydney" no wonder it's not just Souths who hate the roostas. But every other Sydney club too



Herald was wrong according to the member's info I have. But still Souths have the best balance. (With NO pokie machines)

RE: your opinion on Crowe/PHaC we could continue forever regarding that. Just keep going around in circles.

Me thinks twin dick is grasping at well sucked straws......

You got nothing dude......go and collect your dole and smell some more petrol.....You might have another substance induced epiphany......

[Guest]

Meanwhile disregarding heritage and culture. Ay, Sydney City?

Member's get to buy the club back for $1. I'm sure you don't remember that point. Great profit no?



BHAHAHA. Crowe does it for the money? He has yet to see a cent in profit from the club. Yet he's sticking with it.

Rusty has to BUY his so called FRIENDS, if he didnt have money hed be sittin on alone in the cheap seats

[crikey chris]

So........ if the filthy vermin scum is worth $1, I'll give you $1.50 to **** off.

What a day 9 Dec 1999 was, officially kicked out of the comp. It was so beautiful it brought a tear to my eye!





Australian Broadcasting Corporation

TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT

LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s72155.htm

Broadcast: 09/12/1999

Painful loss for South Sydney fans
Reporter: Mark Bannerman


JUDY TIERNEY: It is now official -- after 92 years, South Sydney, one of Australia's original Rugby League clubs, lost its court battle to field a team in next year's national competition. Today the Federal Court dismissed the club's request for an injunction that would have allowed them to play.

Two months ago the National Rugby League kicked Souths out, claiming they weren't financially viable. But Souths argued in court that the decision breached the Trade Practices Act. As Mark Bannerman reports, the court ruling resulted in a day of high drama.

FANS CHANT: South Sydney!

South Sydney!

South Sydney!

FAN: It's ripped my heart out.

FAN: It's my life. That's what I live for, the Rabbit.

I live for the Rabbit. Now I haven't got it.

MARK BANNERMAN: If there is one thing South Sydney league fans have in spades, it's emotion and commitment. Eight weeks ago, they brought Sydney to a standstill with a rally protesting a move to dump their team from the National Rugby League competition.

RALLY SPEAKER: Previous speakers spoke of how we're going to fight these faceless, gutless bludgers in the courts if they upset us.

MARK BANNERMAN: Today a hard core of those fans turned out to hear a Federal Court decision that might have given them a stay of execution.

JOURNALIST: What does this decision mean to you?

FAN: Like I said, it's life and death. Life will have no meaning without South Sydney.

ANOTHER FAN: Souths is not just a football side, it's our family. I want my son to play for Souths.

FAN: From what I've heard, we should win and win, and if we don't win, we've been done by.

JOURNALIST: What happens if you lose?

FAN: Well, I'll be shattered.

I'll never see Rugby League again, never buy a 'Telegraph' again, never watch it on Channel 9 or Channel 7 and I'll get rid of pay TV altogether. That includes Optus as well.

MARK BANNERMAN: For its part, Souths' case was simple enough.

Lawyers for the club claimed the National Rugby League had breached trade practices law by unfairly setting up criteria and enforcing that criteria so that Souths would be excluded from the competition.

Accepting the full case could not be heard until next year, Souths had asked for an interim injunction to keep them in the footy competition.

Facing a packed courtroom, Justice Hely delivered his decision in double quick time. But the answer for Souths was all bad. For a small moment the fans stood there stunned, not knowing how to react.

Then outside in the corridor they began to chant against the decision. Later this bubbled over into a physical confrontation with the National Rugby League officials and representatives.

Outside too, there was strong emotion.

FAN: I'm very upset. I'm sorry. South Sydney is my life.

FAN: Money-hungry, they are. They are money-hungry, they are.

MARK BANNERMAN: Back at South Sydney leagues club the reaction was more restrained but far more bitter.

WADE SINGLETON, SOUTHS SUPPORTER: I'm having trouble at the moment containing my rage. I'm, like, on the edge. I don't want to do anything stupid, but I just don't know what's going to happen, you know what I mean?

They've taken away something so precious from me, I want revenge.

SOUTHS SUPPORTER: They've sold this country out, Murdoch. He lives overseas, calls himself Australian. He wants to tell us what to do. They won't get a dollar off me any more.

I've stopped buying his papers and I don't care any more. He can go to hell.

GEORGE PIGGINS, SOUTH SYDNEY PRESIDENT: I'm terribly sorry we failed to get an injunction to get into the year 2000.

MARK BANNERMAN: But if fans were doing it tough, no-one was doing it tougher than club boss George Piggins.

GEORGE PIGGINS: It's been a great club over the last 92 years. There's been great memories here with all you people.

If the NRL wish us to die this way, unfortunately that's the way it will be because there's no intention of merging the colours while I'm in charge of the club, I tell you that right now.

MARK BANNERMAN: Across town at League headquarters, the Rugby League's new chief executive David Moffett was subdued, even offering at this late stage to help Souths merge with another club.

DAVID MOFFETT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE: Rugby League fans of all persuasions have had to undergo a lot of pain over the last few years. And what we now have is some certainty about the future.

MARK BANNERMAN: Little wonder he's downbeat. Certainly no-one would like to see the NRL dance on Souths' grave, but legal experts claim the fight is still far from over.

How would you describe the case that you see developing next year?

MARIANNE ROBINSON, SPORTS LAWYER: I think it's going to be a very interesting one. I don't think it's over.

I don't think Souths supporters should give up hope entirely yet, although I think it's going to be a long, hard battle, but he's certainly given them the ideas of where their case needs to be boosted and the issues he thinks as a judge are the ones they're not strong on.

They'll have a lot of time between now and March to fill in the gaps and come up with the types of things they need to answer that case.

MARK BANNERMAN: And what a scenario, cut next year, reinstated a year later. It would be the greatest comeback, well, since Lazarus.




Crikey.

[Guest]

And you guys tell me I am living in the past

21 is close.

[melon....]

2002.

Souffs are Back. Souffs wish they werent.

Paul "Gang" Green out for teh season after 5 minutes. The comp was ours from that point.

Melon handing out 500 Green and red Wooden spoons.

Souffs winning - the spoon.

Easts win the comp

Good old days.

[Guest]

And you guys tell me I am living in the past

21 is close.

Keep living in the past man, because your future is going to be full of disappointments, its funny that you will have to wait til sunday afternoon, with all that expectation, just to see your store bought team fall in a heap.

[Guest]

The only thing that matters is who wins on Sunday.

[Guest]

Crowe has done the same if not more for my club.

What rubbish...he's got 25 years at least to go before he catches Nick as far as services to a club go...

FFS...what's with all the outlandish and far fetched statements you Souff's idiots sprout...you haven't won the comp yet...you haven't beaten the Roosters yet...your pack isn't the best pack in the comp yet...there's 15 other sides who think differently...

Anyway Manly and Melbourne's pack might remind you all why they've been in so many GF's recently...

[Guest]

Rusty has to BUY his so called FRIENDS, if he didnt have money hed be sittin on alone in the cheap seats

And there we have the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth........

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA........

[Guest]

This troll isn't particularly witty, clever or original yet he's getting a lot of responses here.

Perhaps it's been too long since we've had one around and everyone is getting excited.

I yearn for the days of the good trolls from back in the early 2000's

[novice chook]

Fark me, Rabbitoh's putting together a book of fairytales that will rival Rusty's book of feuds.

Who would have thought one could high on the smells of BO and tooth decay. These Vermin faithful are in a league of their own. Probably just as well, because no one else in their right mind would want to join them.

For those going on Sunday - don't forget the hand sanitiser. And if you happen to have some spare, throw it over a Vermin supporter as you leave. It's a clean as he/she will get all year.


NC