Recent content by jirskyr

How does that work though? I didn't watch it. 20-0 then all of a sudden Sharks pack is too big and fast?

I was only responding to a concept of NRL compelling clubs to accept a certain salary cap load based on offers from other clubs. I don't think it works and I don't like the idea of case-by-case assessments. All I think it does it hollow-out the concept of the salary cup and highlight the flaws...

That's your mistake, worrying about what he looks like. PVL got to where he is because he's shrewd as hell and people keep judging him how he looks. Look up his history - he's entrenched as a successful sports administrator, even if you think his tactics are questionable.

Well the NRL can do anything they please in policing the salary cap, but they should not force an opposition's proposed costs onto someone else's salary cap. Terrible idea. It's a well-established issue - Tedesco, for example, took much less to join the Roosters. Despite the harm it caused us I...

Too old is my concern. He'll be 34 start of next season and I worry about a guy like that, a tough guy hard worker who takes hit-ups, one significant injury and that's it - the recovery becomes increasingly difficult. A 1 or 2 year deal max, maybe.

I can't hear you

Sorry but you need a few corrections, and I say this not as a PVL booster. He's not NRL CEO, that was Abdo. He's Chairman of the ARLC. Currently he's Interim Executive Chairman, absorbing some CEO duties until the confirm a CEO replacement. And yes the replacement might be him. He's also on...

Farah would be bamboozled nowadays - which chin to punch?

You cannot be serious, that is him?

I think he actually means the communication flow from him to his players.

I don't think that's actually what the NRL are proposing, I have a feeling it's been misreported. I am guessing it's the old rule where clubs can't register BS contracts; I don't think 900K vs 1.1M would count. NRL also have internal metrics about what players are being paid (obviously they...

Well NRL can't really do that. They've had some kind of informal rule for a long while, that you can't registered BS value contracts, but they also can't compel clubs to "match the highest offer". Roosters would have 50 signings that "accepted less money to be in the Roosters culture". There's...

It's all about "beyond 2027" which means they are still here next year.

40s, where I still am now. We have a Google device in the kitchen that displays photos and I've just started to notice that I look really young in photos that I used to consider quite recent. The photos are well known to me but at some point recently I suddenly realised "hey I really don't...

I know this because my wife is Scottish and careful to pick out anything inappropriately attached to Scotland, particularly if the word "scotch" is used. One explanation is "scotched" used to mean mincing of food, hence scotch around the egg.