Smash the Riff

[Darkone]

watched their game against the Warriors

soft!!!

Warriors were flat, got bad calls

not what I would call great lead up to play the roosters on their turf

it will be a repeat of their last one against us.......a clinic

[milanja]

Smash the Riff cause Gus Gould is a farking wanker!

"Phil Gould lost one of the first games he coached at the Roosters. In the wash-up, Nick Politis asked him what he thought about the performance of his team.

"Nick," said Gould, preparing a cryptic response in his mind, "when you plant a seed you can't expect to grow a tree overnight."

"Sure, baby," Politis, the chairman, replied. "But do you think you could put a little more water on it just to speed things up?"

When Gould left the Roosters in 2005, when he was coaching director, he promised Politis he would never coach against the Tricolours.

Six years later, when the Penrith board asked him to come on board as their general manager after they had unsuccessfully tried to poach Tim Sheens as coach from the Tigers, the first person he called was Politis.

"I wanted his blessing," Gould has said, even though the role had nothing to do with coaching.

Politis on Monday recalled it being a light-hearted conversation, but you can be assured Gould would never have taken the Penrith job if Politis was cool on the idea.


"I have sat with Nick in the most exclusive restaurants Australia has to offer, but quite often the best times over a meal have been a pie and Coke at the football or the cocktail sausage back at the club after the game," Gould wrote. "If you pay Nick respect you get it back tenfold. If you give Nick loyalty, he gives it back tenfold. If you display the qualities of caring and friendship, again, you get it back tenfold.

"In the end the battle becomes trying to do something for Nick or give him something without him giving you anything."

That was written on grand final day in 2002, when the Roosters beat the Warriors.

You can speed things up, but some things in life forever stay the same."

I always like gould for the respect he shows uncle Nick.

[Guest]

I used to own a pair myself.

Sorry man, I got up on the wrong side of the bed today.

[Guest]

Sorry man, I got up on the wrong side of the bed today.

It's all good.

It's like when opposition supporters call us a bunch of latte sipping pooftahs.

That's so offensive.

I never drink latte.

[Guest]

"Phil Gould lost one of the first games he coached at the Roosters. In the wash-up, Nick Politis asked him what he thought about the performance of his team.

"Nick," said Gould, preparing a cryptic response in his mind, "when you plant a seed you can't expect to grow a tree overnight."

"Sure, baby," Politis, the chairman, replied. "But do you think you could put a little more water on it just to speed things up?"

When Gould left the Roosters in 2005, when he was coaching director, he promised Politis he would never coach against the Tricolours.

Six years later, when the Penrith board asked him to come on board as their general manager after they had unsuccessfully tried to poach Tim Sheens as coach from the Tigers, the first person he called was Politis.

"I wanted his blessing," Gould has said, even though the role had nothing to do with coaching.

Politis on Monday recalled it being a light-hearted conversation, but you can be assured Gould would never have taken the Penrith job if Politis was cool on the idea.


"I have sat with Nick in the most exclusive restaurants Australia has to offer, but quite often the best times over a meal have been a pie and Coke at the football or the cocktail sausage back at the club after the game," Gould wrote. "If you pay Nick respect you get it back tenfold. If you give Nick loyalty, he gives it back tenfold. If you display the qualities of caring and friendship, again, you get it back tenfold.

"In the end the battle becomes trying to do something for Nick or give him something without him giving you anything."

That was written on grand final day in 2002, when the Roosters beat the Warriors.

You can speed things up, but some things in life forever stay the same."

I always like gould for the respect he shows uncle Nick.

He's still a wanker!

[stephenj]

I like mu uggs, standard wear in the shire, the riff are like we were in 2010 good but not good enough just yet to win it all? but I don't underestimate them we took them lightly in 03 learnt a big one there!

[Kramer]

Well said TCB. I just finished reading the memoirs of the woman who started the Jimmy Choo shoe empire and her collaboration with UGG's generated millions for both companies. The nicest people I've ever worked with were all from the Penrith area and are all civilised with nice homes and well mannered children. There are plenty of bogans in the Oxford Street Mall on any given day.

They are infiltrators from Souffs!!!

[John Corey]

Whats with the Penrith hate? People talk about clichés yet the ****knuckle above is making cracks about ugg boots. I like Penrith. Don't get me wrong, I am an Easts man through and though but please. I was born and bred out there and I sure as hell have never owned a pair of ugg boots. Furthermore, do you not realize that Ugg boots are very fashionable around the world these days?

We should destroy Penrith on Saturday but I have a lot of respect for the rebuilding they are going through. Not so unlike us not that long ago.

You also have a $hitload of respect for ugg boots TCB!

[Guest]

Smash the Riff cause Gus Gould is a farking wanker!

This. His anti Roosters commentary shits me. And if anyone thinks humans inhabit Mt Druitt they are kidding themselves.

Chook.