Catalans make a play for JWH

[mightyrooster]

Good call by Madge on Jared WH. At least he knows the difference between an enforcer and someone who continually leaves his team a player short. Why do Trent Robinson and Nick Politis keep a serial grub on their books? Surely not a good PR image for Easts!

Did you get lost Zappa? Wrong forum I believe.

[Zappa]

The only injury Jared WH has is a sore elbow from ramming it into opposition player’s faces.

[BigCok007]

The only injury Jared WH has is a sore elbow from ramming it into opposition player’s faces.

Good one!

[roostermcgregor]

How often do you see those stray souff sydney fans at sporting events, wearing their souffs gear?
Like motor car races, Rugby Union test matches, or the current RL World Cup?.
Some of them even venture onto the Chookpen , where they don't belong, and pretend to be Roosters fans.
F*cking frustrating, isn't it?

[roostermcgregor]

Hey Zappa, do you think Demitriou should banish Fatrell to NSW cup for the 2023 season, given that Mitchell had such a shocker in the semi final against the Panfers?
I hardly recall seeing Mitchell do anything constructive, for the whole game.
While Demitriou is there , he can get rid of the dead wood by sacking Cody Walker (a.k.a Intercept King) to reserve grade as well.

[GrubBER]

The dental plan gang have only won one premiership since 1971, enough said!!!!

[Rooster1908]

The dental plan gang have only won one premiership since 1971, enough said!!!!

Steady up they have only been in the comp since 2002 so thats not a bad effort

[bondi paul]

Zappa trying to pose as a intellectual via the use of the name Zappa.

[ChookMaster]

The warren is restricted to members only and I would love the pen to look at a similar path moving forward if it isn’t too much of a burden on anyone.

We have waaaay too many imposters or rival fans on here and like others have said already - it can become annoying.

[milanja]

The dental plan gang have only won one premiership since 1971, enough said!!!!

“Won” is a very loose term when describing that 2014 season.

[ChookMaster]

How good….




Paul Kent: CBA stoush shows rugby league’s ability to self-harm is second to none

South Sydney are flexing their financial muscle and forgetting everything that endeared them around the league, writes PAUL KENT.

Sometime after the first Super League War ended Dawn Fraser, our greatest living Australian, nodded towards George Piggins, who might just be the second, and declared that if Piggins led Balmain instead of the Rabbitohs then Balmain would still be alive in the NRL.
As it turned out it was Souths that survived, and somewhat longer than Piggins after Souths fans turned on him less than three years later.
But such is the game it is hard to offer much more than a gentle rolling of the eyes after it emerged this past week that, of all NRL clubs, one of the teams privately aligning themselves alongside those threatening to leave and form a different league, which they would have run by different administrators, is South Sydney.
The Rabbitohs were the emotional losers from the Super League War although ultimately they weren’t the biggest losers.
North Sydney, Balmain, Western Suburbs, St George and Illawarra all sit above them on that list.
The Rabbitohs got kicked out for two seasons but the Bears are gone and the Magpie lives on the shoulder of the bastardised Balmain colours, and that’s about it for each.
The Dragons now share their rich history with a team that runs the board, and so the club, but still manages not much more than the Steelers socks when they run out each weekend.
And now it emerged the Rabbitohs, along with Penrith and several other clubs keeping in the shadows, are throwing up talk of driving a rival league against the NRL.
The ability of the game to self-harm is second to none.
Talk of a new Super League is little more than an ambit threat but, for anybody that lived through the first war, one that remains so sensitive many are wondering why they needed to go there in the first place.
Especially as it has remained most sensitive to South Sydney fans, something their club has shown little respect for in this latest episode.
For years Souths benefited from the goodwill of rival fans, respectful of the dogged fight Piggins led.
Even now, with the War leading indirectly to their current status as one of the game’s richest clubs, owned by two billionaires, who even occasionally get along to games, Souths have always carried a healthy respect from rival fans.
Under this new ownership the Rabbitohs are flexing their financial muscle and forgetting everything that endeared them around the league.
As for a rival Super League actually happening, all it does is reveal the naivety of those suggesting it. It appears inflammatory for the sake of being inflammatory, as it certainly won’t happen.
About 80 per cent of NRL revenue is taken from the broadcast deal.
The NRL is currently in partnership with the country’s two biggest media companies, News Corp and Channel 9, who would have little appetite to support a breakaway competition.
Not just that, though, while rival television networks like Channel 10 would certainly listen to the idea of having rugby league on its network there would be little appetite to take on News and Nine and the millions it would cost in legal fees.
It also raises the question, though, that if the same people suggesting they could make a go of a rival Super League are the same ones asking for more money from the NRL then the NRL should double down their efforts to deny them.
It shows little thought and makes little financial sense.
Clubs are notorious for wasting money.
They are engaged in their own arms race, one of the reasons a salary cap was necessary in the first place.
Give a club an extra million dollars and it won’t be spent on the resources to turn $1 million into $2 million.
It will be spent on extra physios and more coaches and other short term efforts to win a premiership.
The problem occurs when more than one club has the same idea.
This short-term mentality of clubs was never better revealed than the recent Covid crisis when most of the clubs were months away from becoming insolvent.
At the time, the NRL was passing on most of its profits, giving clubs the money they wanted, much of which was passed on to the players.
Not a cent was saved for a rainy day. They acted like they believed the NRL would be their parachute if the time ever came.
And when the time came they proved as much, unable to survive themselves.
And now they threaten to run off and find a new competition to be run by people they appoint, with who knows how much money coming from where?
You couldn’t make it up.