@tigers_wests said in Signing Suggestions & Rumours:

There was a post and picture today on the facebook group ‘All About PNG Rugby League’ stating that Edene Gebbie finally leaving to join up with Wests Tigers. Nothing official, but looks like Gebbie could be over shortly.

It was Dec 8 …back when he started his train and trial

Haven’t heard anything since

@happy_tiger said in NRL statement on Isaac Moses:

I still think the major problems with the whole player contracts situation is that players are not made accountable to what they agree to or sign

I still think the easiest and best solution is this

When the player agent and club meet to sign a contract a representative from the NRL must

1 /be a witness to the contract
2/ explain exactly what the contract is ie $$$'s length any special agreements …bonuses
3/ The NRL person explains to the player if he gets any extras on top of that contract and he is caught he automatically gets a 2 year ban …no questions asked

Once you make the player aware of that I’m sure players will think twice about even accepting a brown paper bag …or winning a golf game

In the end the players don’t really care what happens to player agents or the club …if you can possibly take food off their tables …make the kids go to public school …drive around in a 2nd hand car …that worries them

Said the same thing a few years ago. If you make the players liable for any salary cap rorts and hit them hard if they break the rules, the problem will go away. You can’t have the players trying to shift the blame to the clubs or their managers

@spook said in Balmain saved from brink of extinction with new leagues club to come:

@Russell said in Balmain saved from brink of extinction with new leagues club to come:

@Strongee said in Balmain saved from brink of extinction with new leagues club to come:

@smithy said in Balmain saved from brink of extinction with new leagues club to come:

I have lived in Balmain for the last 3 years after spending my life in the western suburbs.People who say that there no Wests Tigers supporters in the area are completely wrong.All my neighbours follow the Tigers and go regularly to games.On game day at Leichhardt ,Darling St is lined with people and all the pubs are packed.Its a great atmosphere and before i moved here i wouldnt have believed it.To the disbelievers try it some time and you will be surprised.

Yep , it extends all the way into Ryde , and as far down as west Ryde , and Strathfield . That whole area is wests tigers . About 10 years ago , it became a “upper class hipster , bogan” thing to go to Leichhardt and watch the footy . When I lived in the area just after this , the love for the tigers was infectious , and you could go to any pub , in gladesville , Ryde , west Ryde , concord , and realise they’re tigers areas .
To me it’s like if Newtown were an NRL club , and wasn’t just a hipster thing , but had real money behind it .

It extends all the way to Spurway Street Ermington - All WT supporters except for a few idiots that think they are in the Parramatta area because they pay their rates to that council.

It’s area historically goes as far as Rydalmere station, there was an Ermington-Rydalmere JRL.

As far as the name of the new club goes, it is not surprising it is being referred to as Balmain Leagues in it’s initial stages, as all legal action, agreements and negotiations for so many years were from Balmain Leagues, and the litigation centered on that club returning to it’s original sight. I think the naming issue is a non issue for Wests Ashfield at the moment, they will be just glad it’s going ahead.

I think you’ve forgotten dundas which is further west, if you’re Talkin about balmain catchment area that is

Could you truncate it like when you reply and have “2021 software up…” and the actions in one line?

@cocacola said in Coronavirus Outbreak:

@nelson said in Coronavirus Outbreak:

Reading this thread makes me think that Occam’s razor has been thrown out or otherwise modified to: “forget the simplest explanation, it’s the freaking lizard people taking over!”

Simplest explanation to me is that it was a virus being modified from a lab.
Question is, was it released deliberately…

And how nice to belittle people with comments such as ‘lizard people’ taking over.
Paint everyone with the same brush. I must be a Alex Jones or David Icke supper right because I go against mainstream views on a subject?

I didn’t quote you and I don’t even know who Alex Jones or David Icke are.

The simplest explanation to me is not that it was modified in a lab - it’s a virus, they happen in nature. Why didn’t this one?

Maybe something did happen in a lab, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility I accept, but why would you think that someone would deliberately release it? Was it some rogue nihilist in your scenario? Or a state actor? Or Big Pharma? I don’t get it and it’s an extremely complicated scenario both as to the motivation of any such actor/s and how they would possibly avoid exposure of what had been done. Secrets are not so easy to keep.

I also don’t understand what this whole all for “money” and “control” thing is. What control are governments getting? Why do they want it? What’s the endgame? These nebulous, sinister motives that get floated make no sense to me. What do they get out of making people wear masks? Why can it not just be accepted that they are trying to deal with a health issue rather than there being some sinister ulterior purpose, particularly when there are health experts giving that advice? Are the health experts also part of some shady cabal?

As to your indignation at the lizard people comment, I look forward to you leaping in the next time the “mainstream” as you call it are labelled “sheeple”.