We have finally got a team together that has a good chance of winning most weeks. We finally have a club that elite players are willing to join, we finally have a club that the private sector is keen to support and we finally have a club that is being run by a person who is smarter than most other administrators in sport.
Now we go back to all the factional fighting, its not smart. This sort of fighting has destroyed trade unions,political parties and cooperations in the past. Really it can only damage our brand name. Where I agree the magpies have some real gripes, I just dont see all this mud throwing is going to help anyone. The CEO is the man driving the ship and he should be the man to head up a delegation TO GET THIS MATTER FIXED and behind closed doors and not in the media. Blind Freddy knows ours future is in the South West of Sydney and so dose our CEO
I agree, in the long run wether thats 5 or 10 years or even longer, **hopefully WT will realize South West Sydney is the area which will be the most viable.** It will make the decision easier if the area keeps unearthing talents like young Tedesco
HOW do you make that assessment???
The local juniors don't pay the club's operating expenses and I'm yet to see any legitimate business in the Macarthur region make a noticeable financial contribution to the JV or support this ridiculous rally!!!
Galahs mob will only alienate themselves from both WT and the NRL - and on that basis alone they will defeat their own purpose and never get the support they ludicrously "DEMAND" - or any chance of the true agenda - a Magpies return to the top grade!!!!!
You mention Tedesco - but he is yet to play FG and aside from Bryce and Rowdy - we have had few Macarthur originated players make it (Fulton from Parra as was Halatau so neither should be claimed)!
Collis, Gallant, McDonnell ad infinitum were also gun Magpies juniors but failed to live up to the Leumeah hype!! Plus Balmain are happy to claim he likes of Woods, Sironen, Simona, Harrison etc - so we hold ourn own!
So despite the population growth and RL participation - why does anyone think that it is inevitable that the Macarthur is the future for the club???
Until that area starts generating some money for the club and has overwhelming appeal to our major sponsors - they can just wish (and make stupid "demands")!!!!
PS - I always said that we had a very good operator in Mr Humphreys and are the envy of clubs who have/had the likes of Osborne, Don Furner Jr, Irvine, Richardson etc as CEO!