Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Cultured_Bogan]

I don't


I don't want to be "that guy" but there are no safe drugs.

The worst one is the only legal one.

 

[Kelce68]

I don't


I don't want to be "that guy" but there are no safe drugs.

Caffeine, paracetamol, alcohol, not safe in small quantities, huh?

MDMA, cannabis, morphine, psilocybin are all administered by doctors to treat a variety of issues from chronic pain to insomnia to anxiety. Not safe, eh?

EVERYTHING is dose dependent.

C'mon now, Daz, this isn't Reagan-era United States here..

 

[pawsandclaws1]

 

[The-moP]

If true, then It’s odd that he cut his finger off to play rugby league but he could not stay away from drugs to continue playing rugby league.

As a former police officer .. I’m 6’4” and 110kg .. too many times have I been man handled and throw around by a 15 year old on drugs (probably ice) like I was a rag doll .. Crichton is professional footballer .. he knows the right and wrongs associated with illicit drugs .. if he chooses to go down that path he has accepted the many dangers and complications associated with those drugs .. if he has stuffed up his football career / life because of the use of drugs .. that is not a NRL problem .. and they should not compensate him, or his club in any way .. !!

 

[Garrry]

I think everyone's forgetting, A Crighton plays for the roosters, yes he chose to do it, uncle nick will look after him.

Ps: how's that great culture going now Crighton and some say also sualii but didn't affect him ???

 

[TillLindemann]

I don't


I don't want to be "that guy" but there are no safe drugs.

Not true, nobody in the history of the world has overdosed and died from weed, for example, and it has successfully transitioned many cranky people into being non-cranky people.

Also I think it can be dangerous to not take drugs, or at least alcohol, as there's a chance you could end up bored, miserable and angry, and end up going on a murderous rampage. Hitler was a teetotaller, Osama Bin Laden was a teetotaller, there is a common denominator among such people - if only they got on the piss with mates and had a bit of a laugh more often they might have turned out differently.

 

[Tiger-ferret]

Not true, nobody in the history of the world has overdosed and died from weed, for example, and it has successfully transitioned many cranky people into being non-cranky people.

Also I think it can be dangerous to not take drugs, or at least alcohol, as there's a chance you could end up bored, miserable and angry, and end up going on a murderous rampage. Hitler was a teetotaller, Osama Bin Laden was a teetotaller, there is a common denominator among such people - if only they got on the piss with mates and had a bit of a laugh more often they might have turned out differently.

Interesting take.

I’m a believer in anything and everything in moderation, (except for ice… that stuff is high risk for devastation)

 

[DJG]

Easts starting cheating when Politis came onboard in the late 70's, there were rumours not long after, below are 3 former internationals who admitted it was going on, even then the league did nothing.
These were 7 years apart, they were cheating then, and are still cheating now

Former Test stars admit being paid with brown paper bags

Kiwi international Dane Sorensen opens up about leaving Cronulla in 1984 and joining Eastern Suburbs for one season

www.todaystale.com

Another Test star confesses - club paid me in brown paper bags

Former Great Britain star Bobbie Goulding claims that on arriving in Sydney he was taken to City Ford and given a car. In the glovebox, a brown paper bag full of cash. And it kept on coming.

www.todaystale.com

Bobbie Goulding was a pub footballer who had an alcohol problem, he should have kept quiet.

 

[Garrry]

I'm going to search on you Tube the interview Matty did with singleton I think it'll be interesting

 

[AdelaideTiger]

Mushies are not what I would call safe without medical supervision.
As a much younger dude I indulged several times. While I had some great laughs and it was OK overall, the buzz was so variable - from quite mild to super heavy.
The last time I had them I swore I never would again - one of the few things I have diligently stuck to.

They are quite easy to find in my part of the world, if you know where to look. I have never had a bad experience with them and would certainly advocate for their use to treat forms of depression etc... in a very controlled environment. But at the same time, I can see how someone could do very serious damage to their psyche if they weren't careful whilst using them, and didn't full understand the risks associated.

 

[hank37w]

The worst one is the only legal one.

Love is the drug?

Seen people go right off on that one.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Not true, nobody in the history of the world has overdosed and died from weed, for example, and it has successfully transitioned many cranky people into being non-cranky people.

Also I think it can be dangerous to not take drugs, or at least alcohol, as there's a chance you could end up bored, miserable and angry, and end up going on a murderous rampage. Hitler was a teetotaller, Osama Bin Laden was a teetotaller, there is a common denominator among such people - if only they got on the piss with mates and had a bit of a laugh more often they might have turned out differently.

Hitler was a vegetarian too. Lessons to be learned there 😉

Stalin was a despot as well but he sounded like lots of fun on the piss. He used to have six hour piss ups with his cabinet members and his favourite prank was to sneak tomatoes into their pants pockets and shove them into walls and have the tomatoes explode in their pants.

 

[mikey]

I don't


I don't want to be "that guy" but there are no safe drugs.

Technically I agree with you but like a lot of things it's how they are used in terms of amount and frequency.

 

[jadtiger]

Hitler was a vegetarian too. Lessons to be learned there 😉

Stalin was a despot as well but he sounded like lots of fun on the piss. He used to have six hour piss ups with his cabinet members and his favourite prank was to sneak tomatoes into their pants pockets and shove them into walls and have the tomatoes explode in their pants.

Interesting you mention Stalin being a massive drinker but part of the reason was to see if he could trust his advisors and generals when they had a large amount of alcohol.More than a few were arrested for saying the wrong thing (a week or 2 later) and if you did not drink with him he also saw it as grounds for suspicion and arrest.
Hitler was evil but Stalin was just as bad.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Public servants' wages; teachers, nurses, police, etc. are all on a publicly-accessible salary structure. Executives of public companies are required to have published salaries. It is simply transparency.

I can't think of a legitimate argument against publishing all NRL salaries in full and feel it is simply preferring to keep the power of negotiating in the hands of the player managers (like Anasta). By keeping everyone in the dark, they can play clubs against each other and manipulate the player market and this would cripple their influence.

And that's EXACTLY why it should happen.

Hear, hear!

Contracts and salaries should be transparent throughout all organisations. Tendering and negotiations are a different matter.

 

[liltiger]

They also stated that MM has been in contact with Curtis Sironen to come to Parra.
If MM was trying to help Parra with recruitment I can’t see him leaving Parra.

I missed that bit, but that's 100 percent right, why help a team your leaving.

 

[liltiger]

Publishing salaries helping keep the salary cap fair won't help as 3rd party payments are not policed and i can just imagine what side deals are done with businesses that have connections to board members etc.
I think they should have a transfer system in place like what they have in Europe for soccer. So clubs that develop youngsters get rewarded for investing in the development of players. Sure they wont be able to keep all of them but they could still manage to keepna core group of them. The nrl could also reward the clubs with some % of the developed players salary not counting towards the salary cap? (Which there is a form of that already)
Any my 2cents

Pretty sure even though third party agreements aren't policed they must be disclosed to the N.R.L. It would make for very interesting reading, if say the Tigers sign player A for 450k and Brydens throw in a top up of 200k.
How would the club explain our chairman's company offering a tpa, when the agreements are supposed to be at arms length from the clubs.
This would be rife throughout the N.R.L.
I would love to know how many tpas can be traced back to the Roosters board members.

 

[liltiger]

Caffeine, paracetamol, alcohol, not safe in small quantities, huh?

MDMA, cannabis, morphine, psilocybin are all administered by doctors to treat a variety of issues from chronic pain to insomnia to anxiety. Not safe, eh?

EVERYTHING is dose dependent.

C'mon now, Daz, this isn't Reagan-era United States here..

I think the point he might be making is the same as yours, under medical supervision generally anything is fine.

 

[tiger_one]

I would love to know how many tpas can be traced back to the Roosters board members.

 

[LUPO]

Hear, hear!

Contracts and salaries should be transparent throughout all organisations. Tendering and negotiations are a different matter.

I think the idea is if a player is on the open market fielding offers of say 1M/year and then signs with another club for 700/year, it justifies being looked into/questioned (because what player would really take 300K less).

Yes a team could just submit a fake sum with the rest under the table but that fake sum would still need to be very close to their market value to not raise suspicion...so if you stack your side with heaps of million dollar market players (i.e The Roosters) it would still be hard to fit them under the one cap even if the sums are fake because they would still need to be close to market value in the public eye.

In saying this, I agree there would be a lot of loop holes and with third party deals, it would be

Funny how the Players Association don’t mind spruiking what the minimum wage should be. Looks like protecting the elite end of players