Recent content by Papacito

The work from an office campaign is a scam, pushed by the real estate industry and loser managers with fragile egos who need to be seen but offer little else. I lead a team of five, they pretty much all work from home. Most days we're voice chatting or text chatting over Slack or Teams on...

His position is very safe. Management have backed him and are not asking for immediate on-field success. Fans do not have very high expectations this season. It seems like Benji has assembled a really good coaching team with Morris, Heighington and Robbie. You need these guys involved to turn...

7/10 of the last premierships were won by clubs that are owned by leagues clubs. That's pretty much in line with the percentage of clubs in the comp that are owned by leagues clubs. It would seem that private ownership plays little to no role in success.

The fossil fuel companies know climate change is proven beyond scientific doubt and that their time is up. Any debate around climate change being real, wind turbines killing birds, Australia adopting nuclear and so on is just a PR campaign to confuse people and buy a few more years of operation...

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought that. My family had a good laugh when he declared straight faced it a sell out - with the camera operator capturing a lot of empty seats in the background.

You don't need to look much further than crowd numbers from the last few weekends. Roosters got 38k to their game last weekend. Eels got nearly 30k the week before. There's no way you can get those numbers to LO or Campbelltown.

Both LO and Campbelltown are pretty dire places to watch a live game for anyone but the absolute diehards or those who live very locally. Both remind me a bit a bit of a bloke I saw at a high school reunion recently, nice enough fella, but stuck in the past while the rest of the world has moved...

Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.....

Catchy tunes, wide appeal, good marketing.

Good observation. I'm always a bit shocked when I see games from the 90s (even though I watched a lot of footy back then). Individual skill and playing what was in front of you played a much bigger role than today's structured gameplans. For mine, that's a much more enjoyable type of footy to...

The best I've seen is the great Cliffy Lyons. And trust me, I absolutely hate Manly! It's like the bloke was playing in a different dimension. He was always about four steps ahead of everyone else. Even late in his career when he was pushing 40 years of age with a dodgy knee, he still totally...

There's an enormous jump from playing against your own age groups in schoolboys and junior reps to playing against men who have performed regularly against the best, week in week out, for years. Skill and physicality are one thing, but having the mental resilience and maturity are a completely...

Good call. I often think of my Dad's story as a migrant and how he has contributed to Australia. Moved to Australia on his own, spoke no English, worked on a farm for less than minimum wage, raised a family while working two jobs, paid taxes for 40 or so years, volunteered for decades, plus...

Playing out wide is a horrible place to be when your team struggles in the middle. I take my hat off to Nofoaluma. Local junior, 100 tries, nearly 200 games. Never shirked the hard yards. Many of us on the forum suffer from short memories. It's easy to forget that the bloke was often referred...

Absolutely. It was a big power play to undermine Sheens. Even if Fulton was a good recruitment manager, it's good that Richo has come in and cleared the decks so we can move on.