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by Rodman
September 10, 2016, 5:57 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2016 Finals Wk 1 V Sharks: Game Day
Replies: 790
Views: 50760

Re: 2016 Finals Wk 1 V Sharks: Game Day

Help me out, guys and girls.

Is Hodgson considered among the best playmakers in the game?
by Rodman
September 10, 2016, 5:46 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2016 Finals Wk 1 V Sharks: Game Day
Replies: 790
Views: 50760

Re: 2016 Finals Wk 1 V Sharks: Game Day

Seeing a Raiders team sans battlers...

..it's like waking from a 20-year coma.
by Rodman
September 10, 2016, 5:12 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2016 Finals Wk 1 V Sharks: Game Day
Replies: 790
Views: 50760

Re: 2016 Finals Wk 1 V Sharks: Game Day

I think you'll find his name is gimli. Also welcome back rod, you've been missed mate, stick round!!! We'll see. Life is just very busy these days, and it's proven impossible to be the informed supporter that I've always prided myself on being ;) I am very happy for the Raiders and I'm especially h...
by Rodman
September 10, 2016, 5:02 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: 2016 Finals Wk 1 V Sharks: Game Day
Replies: 790
Views: 50760

Re: 2016 Finals Wk 1 V Sharks: Game Day

I'm about to watch my first game of NRL since early 2015.

So if it all goes pear-shaped, feel free to blame me.
by Rodman
June 4, 2016, 6:18 pm
Forum: Rugby League
Topic: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing
Replies: 152
Views: 16979

Re: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing

No one is downplaying NRL player behaviour. We're just not willing to sit here and listen to someone try and sell American sports stars, particularly those in the NBA and NFL, as a better breed of people than NRL players :lol: Absolutely. As league fans we routinely flog players of the NRL for thei...
by Rodman
June 4, 2016, 4:01 pm
Forum: Rugby League
Topic: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing
Replies: 152
Views: 16979

Re: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing

Dunno about using NBA players as a comparison for good and wholesome behavior. Hahaha right!? Good grief. There was an NBA player who was arrested 3 days ago for domestic violence. There has been at least 6 charged in the past couple of years. I'm not having a go at Rodman either - the NRL certainl...
by Rodman
June 4, 2016, 1:34 pm
Forum: Rugby League
Topic: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing
Replies: 152
Views: 16979

Re: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing

Dunno about using NBA players as a comparison for good and wholesome behavior. Hahaha right!? Good grief. Nobody did use the NBA as a point of comparison. Sid asked me a direct question about NBA players, and I answered. But if we are comparing, the rate of misbehaviour by NRL players is undoubtedl...
by Rodman
June 3, 2016, 11:29 pm
Forum: Rugby League
Topic: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing
Replies: 152
Views: 16979

Re: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing

Are NBA players likeable characters off the court? Serious q P.S I'm firmly in the Rodman should post more camp. I wouldn't say that NBA players are, as a collective, 'better people' than NRL players. However, every single player that matters earns so much money that they have a whole team of handl...
by Rodman
June 3, 2016, 7:34 pm
Forum: Rugby League
Topic: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing
Replies: 152
Views: 16979

Re: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing

Are NBA players likeable characters off the court? Serious q P.S I'm firmly in the Rodman should post more camp. I wouldn't say that NBA players are, as a collective, 'better people' than NRL players. However, every single player that matters earns so much money that they have a whole team of handl...
by Rodman
June 3, 2016, 6:39 pm
Forum: Rugby League
Topic: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing
Replies: 152
Views: 16979

Re: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing

Woodgers has just delivered the GOAT post in GH history. My pessimistic views regarding rugby league's long-term future stems not merely from my utter contempt for the NRL administration. The fact is that in the age of smart phones, social media and a 24-hour news cycle, there is no way to mask the ...
by Rodman
June 2, 2016, 5:55 pm
Forum: Rugby League
Topic: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing
Replies: 152
Views: 16979

Re: NSW Organised Crime Squad investigating match fixing

The NRL invited this sort of crisis the day they decided to give screen time to Tom Waterhouse and representatives of the TAB.
by Rodman
May 12, 2016, 4:26 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Push for points system to replace salary cap
Replies: 172
Views: 9219

Re: Push for points system to replace salary cap

It's probably safe to bet on a first week exit come finals time.
by Rodman
May 12, 2016, 4:22 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Push for points system to replace salary cap
Replies: 172
Views: 9219

Re: Push for points system to replace salary cap

Haha, apologies, I may have had a stroke. Next time I'll do better, I promise. To answer your question; no, I haven't caught any games this season. I just drop in every couple of weeks to see how things are going. It seemed that this discussion warranted the input of a disillusioned former fan of t...
by Rodman
May 12, 2016, 4:16 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Push for points system to replace salary cap
Replies: 172
Views: 9219

Re: Push for points system to replace salary cap

Yet another example of how the NRL is arguably the worst run major sporting league in the world. The fact that anyone would spend even 1 second considering something as ridiculous as a points system simply affirms that the current salary cap system is a pathetic joke. Most of us know why the NRL wo...
by Rodman
May 12, 2016, 3:53 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Push for points system to replace salary cap
Replies: 172
Views: 9219

Re: Push for points system to replace salary cap

Yet another example of how the NRL is arguably the worst run major sporting league in the world. The fact that anyone would spend even 1 second considering something as ridiculous as a points system simply affirms that the current salary cap system is a pathetic joke. Most of us know why the NRL won...
by Rodman
March 22, 2016, 8:24 am
Forum: Greenhouse Issues
Topic: Are you a GH Lurker?
Replies: 252
Views: 36252

Re: Are you a GH Lurker?

The Nickman wrote:Did you manage to sell all your merch??
Yes.
by Rodman
March 21, 2016, 10:22 pm
Forum: Greenhouse Issues
Topic: Are you a GH Lurker?
Replies: 252
Views: 36252

Re: Are you a GH Lurker?

All is well. I just lost interest in the sport itself. I found myself getting increasingly frustrated at how the game was being run. At the same time, I was feeling increasingly alienated from the game's culture (see Pearce, Dugan, Ferguson etc). I began to feel truly ridiculous for idolising these ...
by Rodman
March 20, 2016, 10:09 pm
Forum: Greenhouse Issues
Topic: Are you a GH Lurker?
Replies: 252
Views: 36252

Re: Are you a GH Lurker?

I do miss rodman. I miss Rodman pre McCrone when he contributed things other than "McCrone Sucks". I assume he's at the dragons forum now (if they have enough fans to support one). Also post whatever his first username was (escapes me at present). He was a knob under that one. Basically h...
by Rodman
March 20, 2016, 5:50 pm
Forum: Greenhouse Issues
Topic: Are you a GH Lurker?
Replies: 252
Views: 36252

Re: Are you a GH Lurker?

I do miss rodman. I miss Rodman pre McCrone when he contributed things other than "McCrone Sucks". I assume he's at the dragons forum now (if they have enough fans to support one). Also post whatever his first username was (escapes me at present). He was a knob under that one. Basically h...
by Rodman
November 16, 2015, 5:01 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Will we ever get it back?
Replies: 120
Views: 7112

Re: Will we ever get it back?

It is infinitely more likely that the Raiders will either fold or relocate before winning another premiership. The ways in which the rugby league world has changed since 1987-1994 have been argued ad nauseum. A Canberra based side in this present age could never build a team like the one that domina...
by Rodman
October 5, 2015, 3:54 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Ricky Stuart re-signs to end 2018
Replies: 867
Views: 66079

Re: Ricky Stuart

Harvesting local juniors took the cows 20 years to win a premiership. Look at all the other premiers in that 20 year period and you'll see that's not the way to win. You buy players to win premierships. Look at all the other premiers from the last 20 years and you will see teams that are able to bu...
by Rodman
October 2, 2015, 12:05 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensation
Replies: 71
Views: 9606

Re: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensatio

I'm pretty sure it's not the nrl who are locking out the raiders but Chanel 9 because the raiders just don't get eye balls on the to screen. That's Chanel 9, that's also the raiders allowing themselves to be irrelevant. In terms of not having third party agreements to match the broncos to keep Milf...
by Rodman
October 1, 2015, 3:37 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensation
Replies: 71
Views: 9606

Re: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensatio

The real problem is the complete lack of anti-tampering laws. Players - or, more specifically, player agents - are constantly in contact with 15 other clubs. They know that any time one of their players are on the outs, or suddenly don't feel like doing what the coach tells them, or feel like downi...
by Rodman
October 1, 2015, 11:19 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensation
Replies: 71
Views: 9606

Re: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensatio

The real problem is the complete lack of anti-tampering laws. Players - or, more specifically, player agents - are constantly in contact with 15 other clubs. They know that any time one of their players are on the outs, or suddenly don't feel like doing what the coach tells them, or feel like downi...
by Rodman
October 1, 2015, 2:18 am
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensation
Replies: 71
Views: 9606

Re: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensatio

The real problem is the complete lack of anti-tampering laws. Players - or, more specifically, player agents - are constantly in contact with 15 other clubs. They know that any time one of their players are on the outs, or suddenly don't feel like doing what the coach tells them, or feel like downin...
by Rodman
September 30, 2015, 8:03 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensation
Replies: 71
Views: 9606

Re: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensatio

A little context is important here! Dugan and Fergo never turned up to their hearing at the club, club had little choice but to sack them in the end. Carney was not interested in abiding by the clubs requirement to stay dry, thus he was sacked. Carry on... The league long ago created an environment...
by Rodman
September 30, 2015, 12:38 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Official: Josh McCrone released to Dragons
Replies: 192
Views: 18822

Re: McCrone set to be released to Dragons

T_R wrote:It'll be a question of how much of his salary we'd have been paying.
The club probably shouldn't have offered him a contract worth 350K a year after it was well and truly established that he was a park footballer.

Craziness.
by Rodman
September 29, 2015, 3:22 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensation
Replies: 71
Views: 9606

Re: Canberra Raiders renew calls for development compensatio

This is the most egregious example of how the game has been run into the ground throughout the past 10 years. We know about the failure of the NRL to match the spending of the AFL in terms of junior development. What's rarely acknowledged is that American sporting leagues, which are flashier and inf...
by Rodman
September 23, 2015, 11:47 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Grand Final memories
Replies: 19
Views: 2834

Re: Grand Final memories

Perhaps the greatest 80 minute kicking display of all time by Ricky Stuart.
by Rodman
September 21, 2015, 10:40 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Canberra Raiders junior registrations fall alarmingly
Replies: 44
Views: 3464

Re: Canberra Raiders junior registrations fall alarmingly

Looking at the fact that attendances are down too, I think people are just showing their dissatisfaction with the code and how it's run Finals regardless of who and where should sell out, the roosters crowd last week was a joke.. 2 top 4 teams and barely half full I'd like to see if the other codes...
by Rodman
September 21, 2015, 10:35 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Official: Josh McCrone released to Dragons
Replies: 192
Views: 18822

Re: McCrone in player swap with Garvey

T_R wrote:Belcher, Daley, Stuart, Walters

God, we were spoiled.
There was a 3-4 year span where the Raiders had 8 players who were not only among the best at their position in the world, but were among the best at their position that had ever lived.
by Rodman
September 21, 2015, 2:56 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Official: Josh McCrone released to Dragons
Replies: 192
Views: 18822

Re: McCrone in player swap with Garvey

You said, "If you can get a quality spine for less than 2 mill a season, i think youre in the right place." I replied by pointing out that we haven't had a quality spine for less than 2 million a season since the days of Laurie Daley, and back then players didn't earn anywhere near as much...
by Rodman
September 21, 2015, 2:01 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Official: Josh McCrone released to Dragons
Replies: 192
Views: 18822

Re: McCrone in player swap with Garvey

If you can get a quality spine for less than 2 mill a season, i think youre in the right place The last time we had a quality spine for under 2 million a season Laurie Daley was still running around - and not a single spine in the NRL cost 2 million. storm? Manly? Roosters? Warriors next year, bris...
by Rodman
September 21, 2015, 1:51 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Official: Josh McCrone released to Dragons
Replies: 192
Views: 18822

Re: McCrone in player swap with Garvey

simo wrote:If you can get a quality spine for less than 2 mill a season, i think youre in the right place
The last time we had a quality spine for under 2 million a season Laurie Daley was still running around - and not a single spine in the NRL cost 2 million.
by Rodman
September 20, 2015, 11:54 pm
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Official: Josh McCrone released to Dragons
Replies: 192
Views: 18822

Re: McCrone in player swap with Garvey

How much money do we think the Canberra Raiders deposited into the account of Josh McCrone?

I'd put the figure at at least 1.5 million.