What a joke!

[Bates]

Mate if you walked into emergency with a broken jaw you would be x-rayed & then taken to theatre’s, it would cost you nothing.

It doesn't work like that besides our health system is no longer what it use to be so you're rolling the dice with the public system. I don't want no intern import operating on me.

[Mickie Lane]

It doesn't work like that besides our health system is no longer what it use to be so you're rolling the dice with the public system. I don't want no intern import operating on me.

Your wrong Batesy.
I was operated on by the top Ortho doctor at Concord Hospital after I flew back from Vanuatu with a broken leg.

[Mickie Lane]

Batesy...the NRL and the clubs of course given the nature of the industry they're in, obviously have the highest grade of private health cover and insurance known to man. No-one is handing over cash to get a procedure done mate.

100% but Batesy googled it & saw it cost $30k so he must be right.

[Qld Chook]

Rep games should never be able to counted towards a suspension. It's a ridiculous rule, so wide open to being manipulated. If it's a fringe player, what do the NRL do, ask the rep team coach "Would you have picked this guy"? my God. what a laughing stock the NRL are to even go down this path. With a supposed crackdown on what players were able to get away with back in the day, and all the head injuries stuff nowadays, why on earth would you allow a rortable loophole like this that reduces the only thing the player care about - missing games.

So are you saying that players should still be available to play rep footy if they are suspended from club footy?

Not saying I disagree but if you didn’t let rep footy count towards suspensions you’d be penalising them twice.

[Bates]

Your wrong Batesy.
I was operated on by the top Ortho doctor at Concord Hospital after I flew back from Vanuatu with a broken leg.

Ok so Billy Smith was rushed to casualty where he sat patiently for 6 hours for his free Jaw Surgery. FFS!

Mate, Manu is a family friend and his medical expenses after his surgery were $31k which the Roosters( not the nrl) insurance covered.

NRL players don't go through the public system.

[Batemans Bay Rooster]

I heard Luke Lewis on the radio (I can no longer bring myself to say abc) when they were talking about Ryan Papenhuyzen after he had that awful 2nd injury the other night...they had his manager Clinton Shifcofske on explaining the medical process from the time the injury occurred, and Ryan had his ankle op the morning after the game, and Luke Lewis was saying that in his day it was the same - you would always be having any required procedure immediately, there was no waiting. And the radio audience were texting in whining "how come he gets seen to so fast and the rest of us have to wait??"

One can only imagine the insurance premiums and injury associated costs with running a collision sport monolith like the NRL. Of course the players get seen to immediately, ffs.

[NorfolkStreetKid]

So are you saying that players should still be available to play rep footy if they are suspended from club footy?

Not saying I disagree but if you didn’t let rep footy count towards suspensions you’d be penalising them twice.

It has been the case for the last couple of seasons that a player who would have been a definite selection in a rep team
if not suspended can use those rep game he misses as part of his suspension.
I think it was used for someone who missed an origin game.

[Qld Chook]

It has been the case for the last couple of seasons that a player who would have been a definite selection in a rep team
if not suspended can use those rep game he misses as part of his suspension.
I think it was used for someone who missed an origin game.

Yeah I know. BB Rooster is saying rep games shouldn’t count. But I think that’d be unfair if they didn’t because then you could potentially miss twice as many games.

[The Lip]

But Billy won't walk into a public hospital.He will have the best surgeon , best hospital and we all know that when they know people have money the rip them off .And the Roosters and Nick do have money .30k sounds a bit much .Private cost me 12 K 5 years ago to remove tumor between my ear and the thing I'm meant to think with ?

You sure they didn't remove the wrong lump?

[The Lip]

100% but Batesy googled it & saw it cost $30k so he must be right.

My ortho surgeon has a coffee mug on his desk that says "your fifteen minutes on google doesn't exceed my 15 yrs of education"

[Jacks Fur Coat]

You sure they didn't remove the wrong lump?

This could explain a lot.

[Batemans Bay Rooster]

So are you saying that players should still be available to play rep footy if they are suspended from club footy?

Not saying I disagree but if you didn’t let rep footy count towards suspensions you’d be penalising them twice.

Fair point. Let them play rep footy. It's an NRL suspension. Don't intertwine the 2 in any way

[Qld Chook]

Fair point. Let them play rep footy. It's an NRL suspension. Don't intertwine the 2 in any way

I’d be happy with that. The only drama is if they get suspended during a rep game is that it shouldn’t affect club. It should be weighted differently too as rep games serve more importance (3 origins/year vs 24 club games/year).

[Rooster1908]

This could explain a lot.

Yep I can see how having a brain tumour removed could be amusing to a drunk

[Dr. Voodoo Man]

This could explain a lot.

You are some kind of shitbag.