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[TheLoneRooster]

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Also rumoured Freddy will be doing work with them as well......every second night will be a PARTAY to remember/forget at the base of the mountains.

If freddy does as you've rumoured elo, that will do me as far as he's concerned. The only consolation will be knowing the pamfers will suffer if freddy gets involved with them and if sa goes there then they can look forward to having two players who play well only when they feel like it - pritchard and sa.

[theGman]

I was told earlier this week Smith is happy for Mason to go, and has made it clear to management, and the club doesnt have a problem with that... The only problem is the contract money (he will be our highest paid player again this year),a payout needs to be agreed upon and another club found.

Currently Mason is being shopped around to the ESL. Lets see how it plays out, because Mason has said he doesn't want to leave Sydney..

On another note Smith wants to play Myles in the second row and he is a fan of Daniel Conn and Nick Kouparitsas

The squad for 2010 is NOT finalised, still negotiating with some players - I asked but wasnt told the names ... Interesting times ahead

There are also question marks over Sa, other clubs have expressed interest...

This may raise a few eyebrows BUT i have it on good authority(a departing player) that club officials are happy for Braith to look elsewhere but like Mason he's staying put. Why wouldn't you expect them to hang around based on the moola they're on.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Anasta does a Craig Wing and heads overseas to Union in 2010. Similar circumstances to Wing too i.e Rugby schoolboy sensations, unattached without any commitments.

[Cockadoodledoo]

This may raise a few eyebrows BUT i have it on good authority(a departing player) that club officials are happy for Braith to look elsewhere but like Mason he's staying put. Why wouldn't you expect them to hang around based on the moola they're on.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Anasta does a Craig Wing and heads overseas to Union in 2010. Similar circumstances to Wing too i.e Rugby schoolboy sensations, unattached without any commitments.

Not surprised at all.. I love Braith, reckon he is a champion bloke but he is surplus with Carney at the club.. He is not the sort of Lock Smith is looking for.. Smith wants a guy who will tackle his backside off all day, not a second 5/8..

[Guest]

If freddy does as you've rumoured elo, that will do me as far as he's concerned. The only consolation will be knowing the pamfers will suffer if freddy gets involved with them and if sa goes there then they can look forward to having two players who play well only when they feel like it - pritchard and sa.

What? You begrudge a bloke trying to make a living?

[Guest]

Sa is actually getting interest from the panthers as well.

in the end, with Mason, the club has always said, if he wants to go to union or ESL, they would not stand in their way, the club is keeping the satus quo.

exactly just as they have done for most players who were offered better money in the ESL

[TheLoneRooster]

What? You begrudge a bloke trying to make a living?

I note you like to have a go at people but you've picked on the wrong person here. Based on your response I will make the following assumptions: you don't value loyalty, you do value the dollar above nearly everything else and you have difficulty reading between the lines. Let me ask you this; have the Roosters not been good to Freddy over the years?

Oh, and do me a favour, put me on your ignore list.

[TheBigFella]

the story about Smith not caring about Mason was a beat up.. Try reading the story again & notice that Smith said nothing at all.. It was all supposition from the writer...

There will be no need palming Sa off. There is enough reason with his off-field dramas..

As for all the other 'whispers'.. WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT!!! Stop pulling your own pud's & prove what you say!!!

[Guest]

the story about Smith not caring about Mason was a beat up.. Try reading the story again & notice that Smith said nothing at all.. It was all supposition from the writer...

There will be no need palming Sa off. There is enough reason with his off-field dramas..

As for all the other 'whispers'.. WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT!!! Stop pulling your own pud's & prove what you say!!!

You have such a way with words mate..........so very 80's of you.......

[TheBigFella]

You have such a way with words mate..........so very 80's of you.......

Hey you've gotta be hip to be square remember....

[Guest]

I note you like to have a go at people but you've picked on the wrong person here. Based on your response I will make the following assumptions: you don't value loyalty, you do value the dollar above nearly everything else and you have difficulty reading between the lines. Let me ask you this; have the Roosters not been good to Freddy over the years?

Oh, and do me a favour, put me on your ignore list.

I value loyalty but the game clubs don't. If Fittler goes to the Panthers, that will do you? The club has been great to Freddy but what has that got to do with him going to another club once his commitments are finshed with the Roosters?

I wish the players could excercise a bit more loyalty but a lot of the time it is out of their hands due to the salary cap. That is how it is.

I don't have a go at people as such, I have no grudges or agendas against anyone in here, I do however ask the question if I don't agree with what they say. That does not make it a personal attack so as far as me "picking on the wrong person", don't flatter yourself. I was under the impression that a forum was a place to express an opinion and debate a view point. I guess that if everyone placed a person on ignore because they questioned their opinion, it would be a pretty quiet place.

[Guest]

I'll contribute another dollar for Mase's **** off fund as well.

Mason is still that MASSIVE GUN forward that will go good in 2010.

[Vasco]

I still believe Sa could offer us something. He is a very talented player, maybe he just needs the right mentors around him. He may come out of this a better person.

I'd keep Sa ahead of SKD.

[trewhella]

i dont want mason at our club any more
fullstop
cancer.

[Guest]

I agree.

The backend of 2007, was the attitude we wanted to see.

Even though we finished 4th last year, there has been severe attitude problems, and issues with fading away in the second half. Sloppy mistakes and laziness. Mason has a terrible attitude and it affects the kids.

If only we could swap back our dirty dogs trio of Mason, Conn and Kouparitsas for Tupou, Fitzgibbon and Harrison. Three players who have their all on the field for us, regardless of the criticism we sometimes gave them. I would take them any day over arseclown Mason, nobody Conn, and nuffbag Kouparitsas.

Every year that Mason has been contracted, we have lost an important backrower as his contract increases with the backloading, and we have replaced them with cheaper and worse Bulldog rejects.

We signed Willie at the end of 2007, so we released Harrison to accommodate him under the cap. After 2008, Mason's contract ate into our cap more, we had to release Tupou, and we signed the cheaper but VERY average Kouparitsas. Now this year, Mason's contract eats into our cap more again, out goes Fitzgibbon and in comes Conn.

[TheLoneRooster]

I value loyalty but the game clubs don't. If Fittler goes to the Panthers, that will do you?

Yes, that IS what I said. As to your first sentence, I think you're saying the clubs don't value loyalty and that may or may not be an accurate statement.

The club has been great to Freddy but what has that got to do with him going to another club once his commitments are finshed with the Roosters?

If I have to explain that part to you then that only confirms to me that the concept of loyalty is foreign to you.

I wish the players could excercise a bit more loyalty but a lot of the time it is out of their hands due to the salary cap. That is how it is.

We may actually agree on this point.

I don't have a go at people as such, I have no grudges or agendas against anyone in here, I do however ask the question if I don't agree with what they say. That does not make it a personal attack so as far as me "picking on the wrong person", don't flatter yourself.

Yawn

I was under the impression that a forum was a place to express an opinion and debate a view point.

It is, I just don't like your manner.

I guess that if everyone placed a person on ignore because they questioned their opinion, it would be a pretty quiet place.

But that won't stop me from asking you once more to just ignore me because after this reply, that is what I'll be doing to you.