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BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Milf is on fire. Even if this ref is as one eyed as Ive ever seen.

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BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009


Wasn't there heaps of weird poo poo with this like she'd made allegations against a past boy friend that turned out to be fabricated and she wanted money from the club or something before going to the police?


Ha, not entirely unrelated but I just remembered her mother texting nude pics to whatshisname the sprinter who replied "lol" when she tried to bring him out to australia for some bullshit excuse to try and get laid.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/new-salary-cap-breach-claims-unknown-to-nrl-reports/news-story/6434f054326d47af28cd50546c6458a4

quote:

CONFIDENTIAL internal documents from the Parramatta Eels NRL club reportedly show the board and senior executives have overseen a culture of flouting salary cap rules by rewarding players’ third-party sponsors with corporate boxes.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday that board minutes from 2014 show rewards for third parties, such as free and fully catered corporate hospitality, were discussed openly at the highest levels of the club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8

Paramatta are in heaps of poo poo.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Gorbash posted:

Can someone explain to me how third party payments work in an ideal world? There's a salary cap designed I believe to provide an element of equity so we don't get a Storm/Broncos GF every year, but third party payments seem to let clubs largely work around that. Is it a restraint of trade thing?

I think it came about because of dudes who used to be on the fringes only making like 30k a year. So they could at least supplement their income.

The idea as said above is that it's OK for dudes to get sponsorships outside of the club. The danger is when Paramatta do what they're doing which is poo poo like having Joe blogs of Joe's whorehouse paying Hayne 10k and then getting free corporate box tickets with full catering etc. The argument is that all clubs do it out the rear end and only the dumb ones get caught.

I think other clubs have been caught doing poo poo like having Joe schmo who's on the board of the club and owns a Real estate development company have Ryan Schmo give player X an apartment for free or at a massive discount. or Have the club give Ryan Schmo a no show "consulting" gig where he makes 50k a year but he gives 40k a year to Player Y to turn up and 'motivate' his office.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Smorgasbord posted:

I guess I could accept the outlawing of shoulder charges if the penalty for shoulder to body hits was simply a penalty blown on the field, leave the suspensions for head contact only imo.

edit: and make it around a 10 week minimum.

Should just adopt the rugby rule, contact with the head is 10 in the bin (reviewed by the bunker or whatever to ensure it is actual head contact) imo. Shoulder hits to the body are fine.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Smorgasbord posted:

Well whatever defense they ran at least the appropriate outcome for common loving sense was reached this time.

It's not common sense to not enforce a rule. It's a shoulder charge and he should have copped a penalty for it. If you disagree with shoulder charges to the body that's one thing. Not enforcing rules on the books is another entirely.


Also I need tipping advice, thinking of taking Sharks over Manly

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Hearing GI is out for the game against the doggies.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Burn Down Canberra posted:

The rumours are the broncos are going to re sign milford on 1.2 million. Now he wants to stay in brisbane and he will earn more though tpas but the tigers kids arent worth milford money.,

Clubs need to be careful with the cap going to 10 million(what the next increase is supposed to go to ) Players in spine positions are going to be looking at a huge increase in pay but i can see clubs over spending in some mad orgy of retention for halves with the increase and putting pressure on the other positions

Norman is after 800k plus too.

There's not a whole lot of guys you can build a team around at the position. It makes sense Milford would make bank. This year he's been head and shoulders above Hunt who was looking like the next big thing last year. DCE has seemingly begun to fall back to the pack a little bit as a player, Thurston and cronk are in their early 30s.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Thoughts on Roosters v Panthers?

Was Roosters' last performance them finding form or more just stupid luck. For a team that's so talented they've sure stunk most of the year.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Hunt and nikorima are firing now.

poo poo broncs have gone 200 minutes without conceding a point.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Maxwell is such a poo poo ref.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Broncos taking the set piece of the scrum to new places.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

iajanus posted:

The big problem is that I hate the other teams even more.

Death may be the only answer.

I'm thinking for anyone employed by the tigers, for a start.

Become a broncos fan, every other team hates your loving guts and calls you a cheat, but you still win all the time so you get to be smug as hell.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Burn Down Canberra posted:

That's shocking to me. The knights are basically a nswcup team. The raiders have signed Paulo and Tapine and managed to re-sign Hodgson and soliola.

Wayne sure did a number on you guys.

I can't really blame Bennett, sure he went with a bit of a Dad's army approach which paid off at St George, but I think a bigger issue was at one point they weren't sure if the players were going to get paid and everyone distanced themselves from Tinkler as fast as they could. It's a bit hard to keep coaching and development staff and sign players when Tinkler is backing your word.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Fuuuuuck I am pumped today.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Whats with the shitloads of strapping dudes like bird have on their bicep?

I get strapping for the shoulder going around the arm as well but right in the bicep theres like a brick of strapping.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Whooooooooooooo so happy for Parker to get a win in his last origin at suncorp.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Salary cap violations isnt much. Nsw deserve their curse. I wouldnt care if Meninga and Alfie were sacrificing virgins under the stadium.

After gus gould let one of his forwards take a conversion when they were up by 24 points and laughed when he scuffed it they deserve everything they get.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

The entire state of nsw should consider suicide at this rate. Their only points came off a pass that was a metre forward and couldnt score after 9 of the softest back to back penalties in nrl history against a team a man down.

Shameful poo poo.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Lol nsw fans like a bloke clapping while somone fucks his wife in front of him.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

iajanus posted:

Unfortunately we can't reach the illustrious heights of Queenslanders and group sex in public bathrooms.

Team building has never been a nsw strong point.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Lacklustre Hero posted:

Woop now Queensland can go back to :qq:ing over the Broncos losing games

Dat shield bro

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Byolante posted:

There isn't much I enjoy more than Broncos tears so...

Winning 10 from 11?

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

fuckpot posted:

Anyone know who got MoM???

Gerard sutton

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Gus gould has got to be the lamest oval office in the nrl.

Just said nsw beat themselves this series. Such a disrespectful, arrogant dick.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Am I nuts in thinking that the "Rat" incident at the broncos has had a pretty big effect on the time? I can't think of much else outside of the Bennett "blame origin" thing.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Parra might be desperate enough. I doubt it though.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

The broncs seem to be forcing parker to hang em up to free up some cash. If they manage to get out of the roberts contract as well i wouldnt be surprised if they kept gillete and pulled in another solid player in offseason much to everyone's teary eyed cries about the salary cap.

Im two places off the lead in my tipping comp but three games off the pace. The top two guys seem to be playing it really safe toward the end im going
Cowboys
Storm
Raiders
Titans
Roosters
Warriors
rabbit
dragons

Should blow up in my face nicely.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Saul Goode posted:

There was apparently some kind of incident with Hunt earlier in the year, around the time the Broncos went off the boil. All I know is that if it gets Hunt to the Eels then I don't care!

Yeah the whole "rat" thing where hunt was passing along private locker room poo poo to his agent that went to the media kind of marked the tipping point for the broncos.

He didnt seem to recover well from dropping the grand final last year and there was the preseason origin squad incident where he went out after curfew to get pissed.

They brought back one of the Nikorimas too so if Hunt does leave having benji and nikorima makes a pretty natural utility and starting combination to play on the otherside of milf.

It seems like a dumb signing on the surface but if youre paying him peanuts and arent sure about your starter in the halves you could do a whole lot worse.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Theres nothing you can do in sydney or melbourne that you cant do in brisbane you giant baby.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

I've lived in 4 states and a whole seperate country.

How did I know your post would be a smug self satisfied virtue signalling diatribe about how less enlightened queenslanders are.

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

iajanus posted:

Lol salty.

Considering I'm complaining that Brisbane is a literal country town with average supermarket hours of 8-8 (9-5 on the weekend lol) and the fact that 13km from the city is acreage with no stormwater drainage you can keep crying that I'm denigrating your precious town. The fact that you immediately jump to defensiveness and saying I'm implying Queenslanders are unenlightened because there's no media diversity is beyond the boundaries of mere irony.

And I've only lived in three cities and two countries so what would I know about what services cities generally have. Cry me a river.

Its funny because youre just sad.

Theres literally 20 bars in brisbane specialising in micro brews and craft beers that also make some amazing food.

Theres dozens of places in and around brisbane that have a thriving art and music scene and theres quality sport on nearly every weekend.

Your post was theres nothing to do except drink poo poo beer and watch the broncos. Then you started the tears about not being able to buy a tree hugging rag from coles at 6am which isnt even the norm for opening hours everywhere else and that people dont think like you do.

If you're a piss baby of course youre going to be miserable.

Maybe dont assume everything's going to be poo poo because you're too lazy to look?

BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

I dont feel victimised at all buddy. Feel as negative as you want.

As a tigers fan wallowing probably comes naturally.

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BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Yeah mate that would be nice.

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