Folau 2014

[Guest]

The rumour is, falou signed one year with union so he could join either Souths or the Dogs in 2014, he is close to Maguire from his storm days and was prepared to wait a year rather than sign with Parra.

yeah, thats the rumour.
theres no way either of those teams could fit folou under the cap. the only team that springs to mind that could, is the dragons

[Guest]

NO.

[Guest]

You can guarantee Folau will be a wallaby.

[stsae]

He was negotiating a deal for himself his family and his future and took the best offer, its that simple. Why did he have to take the league deal? He may have wanted to go back to league but if he was offered twice the cash why wouldnt he take it most ppl would.

I have nothing wrong with the man wanting to earn mate, nothing at all. It's a short life in the footy codes, you gotta make while you are able to.

When he went to gAyFL I had no problem with that, it was for the cash.

I guess it's the spin in certain sections of the media I don't like. The tagging his case incorrectly onto $BWs which is totally different.

Folau took a lot of cash to draw families to another code in RLs heartland. For the media to allow him so much grace and not even question the damage he did to our game IMO is out of order.

And as others have said I don't believe the bloke is that deserving of such attention. He is a freakish athlete granted, but IMO not worth top billing as a marquee type player.

I'm not a fan of the way he has conducted business cos it's damaging to our game. He can do what he likes. I don't like it personally.

Fark him.

[Guest]

I take it you're being sarcastic Vasco so I'll respond by saying that I prefer team players to mercenaries as I believe a committed though arguably less talented team player is better for the team than an arguably more talented though selfish player.

Wise man.

[Guest]

Thats the way it is these days you take the best deal, he negotiated a better deal and went for it. Just because he was in talks with parra doesnt mean he had to sign with them or league. Its just sour grapes on stickys and parra's part. Loyalty doesnt come into it anymore!

Gotta shake my head at that comment.

[Guest]

Plus 1 here mate! I posted a thread ages ago stating my feelings towards him. He pissed on everyone and every club in rugby league circles.
Outside of that his defence is shit! He was just lucky to be gifted his physical attirbrutes and gifted that the two best teams in the comp picked him up - storm and broncs.

God help us if we end up with another one of them hey?

[Guest]

Brain's SBW and Folou prediction may well come true in 2014.

Parra look like they're no longer interested.

No longer interested is an understatement, they are going on like he's the anti christ and they are glad they didn't get him. If you read what Stuart has said, he reckons Folau used Parra to chase a bigger bucks deal with Yawnion.

He dumped his beliefs when he found out he'd have to tithe a % to the mormon church, he dumped on the game that made him famous for his AFL masters and you watch the &^%* dump on League again for his new union masters today at the presser.

Glad to see the back of this selfish canoe.

Chook.

[Guest]

God help us if we end up with another one of them hey?

Are you reffering to another post from me on the topic? If so, coming from you, that is the funniest thing I have heard. You have reworded the same SBW - NO crap for a year now. I have a long way to go to match your title for most said, same said.

[SConcierge]

Gotta shake my head at that comment.

Well we either say it as it is OR we can say it the way we want it and how we want to hear it! Dont be fooled mate or live in wonderland thats the reality of sport these days.

[stsae]

No longer interested is an understatement, they are going on like he's the anti christ and they are glad they didn't get him. If you read what Stuart has said, he reckons Folau used Parra to chase a bigger bucks deal with Yawnion.

He dumped his beliefs when he found out he'd have to tithe a % to the mormon church, he dumped on the game that made him famous for his AFL masters and you watch the &^%* dump on League again for his new union masters today at the presser.

Glad to see the back of this selfish canoe.

Chook.

I wonder Chook, if Folau had signed with us or made out he intended to, would he have been afforded the media love he's been given so far???

[Guest]

The way this kid is treating his career i have no doubt that in 2 years the call will be "Izzy Who??"..

[stsae]

The way this kid is treating his career i have no doubt that in 2 years the call will be "Izzy Who??"..

Dizzy Izzy.

[davos]

The way this kid is treating his career i have no doubt that in 2 years the call will be "Izzy Who??"..

When someone has achieved all they have to achieve at such a young age, a larger window of opportunities can be a lot more lucrative than staying in the same place with the same old low salary. Football is a business to them (players) and to club managers, and not a passion or lifestyle like it is to us loyal supporters.

He only has X amount of years to earn as much as he could possibly can and still have fun at doing what he is doing. Both of those aspects need to be in balance. He was earning a bucket load at GWS but was unhappy. He will earn less at the tahs but may be happier than staying in the afl.

The eels would not have offered him anymore than the tahs, and from what was going around, the eels were stalling on negotiations. Goodluck to the kid and hopefully one day we see him playing for the wallabies. Rather than have league officials targeting folau over his choice, maybe they should point their rifles at their own people and ask themselves why we can't afford to keep/buy superstars in our game. The media, especially the telegraph, are going to make love to Izzy scenario over the next few years and he would have been put on their hate list alongside us.

[Guest]

No thanks. Hope he never comes back to the game.

He's worse than SBW because he clearly has no respect or the game that made him a star. He had a chance to make ammends, just as SBW has done, but decided to join another circus.

I would rather have Quade Cooper here