Steve Noyce press conference live on foxsports news at 9:30am

[bondi-boy]

Yes, the difference will likely be that we go down the drain.

Anyone who thinks that the Chairmen of other clubs don't have final complete control of football operations...is misguided.

[supermario]

I understand your views

One day in the future though, when Politis is gone, you'll see the difference

Then you'll understand why all the other clubs have their chairmans at arms length from decisions relating to football operations

are ou deluded enough to think that Nick Pappas has nothing to do regarding desicions made at $ouff$ ????

[bondi-boy]

FFS this is not school and they are not students

getting the cane never hurt anybody and did a whole lot of good

Well it sure looks like it's school to me.
The cane did hurt students, and I helped have it banned.
Now teachers and headmasters have to put their 'fists' away and talk instead.

I like the system Noyce and the club have in place now.
Well I will if Carney is not sacked.

[bondi-boy]

Before these 'senior players', including Mini who was on Fox, go getting too moralistic on Carney they should look to their own pasts:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/...176043972.html


NSW coach Phil Gould is devastated by what he says has been the worst week of his career and will quit forever at the end of the State of Origin series.

After the outrageous events of the past week involving some of his Blues players, which Gould says has left the Origin campaign in tatters, he reveals in his exclusive column in The Sun-Herald: "This will now definitely be my last ever season as NSW coach.

"I am not a football coach any more and I don't want to be. A group of my players have done the wrong thing and I am filthy. Two of the players come from my club, the Roosters, and I cannot begin to tell you how much that hurts.

"With others, I knew the risks and unfortunately they have lived up to my expectations."

He pulls no punches as he details his abject disappointment with some players for their involvement in the training camp drama that cost two NSW players their places in the team.

Centre Mark Gasnier was sacked from the team on Thursday for making an obscene phone call to a woman he didn't know and on a phone he didn't own shortly before 4am on Wednesday.

Fullback Anthony Minichiello was sacked on Friday night for taking his mobile phone with him when he, Gasnier and a group of other players went back out after Gould and the team management thought they had returned to the team hotel for good at 3am on Wednesday.

[Guest]

Noyce has always been an excellent operator

It's just a shame that we're the only club in the comp whose CEO is entirely hamstrung by the chairman

Why did Ray Dib sit in on the meeting with Tandy and Ayoub when the dogs terminated his contract? Do you think he didn't make the final call?

[Guest]

Well it sure looks like it's school to me.
The cane did hurt students, and I helped have it banned.
Now teachers and headmasters have to put their 'fists' away and talk instead.

I like the system Noyce and the club have in place now.
Well I will if Carney is not sacked.

The system is certainly getting the desired results NOT

[Guest]

Before these 'senior players', including Mini who was on Fox, go getting too moralistic on Carney they should look to their own pasts:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/...176043972.html


NSW coach Phil Gould is devastated by what he says has been the worst week of his career and will quit forever at the end of the State of Origin series.

After the outrageous events of the past week involving some of his Blues players, which Gould says has left the Origin campaign in tatters, he reveals in his exclusive column in The Sun-Herald: "This will now definitely be my last ever season as NSW coach.

"I am not a football coach any more and I don't want to be. A group of my players have done the wrong thing and I am filthy. Two of the players come from my club, the Roosters, and I cannot begin to tell you how much that hurts.

"With others, I knew the risks and unfortunately they have lived up to my expectations."

He pulls no punches as he details his abject disappointment with some players for their involvement in the training camp drama that cost two NSW players their places in the team.

Centre Mark Gasnier was sacked from the team on Thursday for making an obscene phone call to a woman he didn't know and on a phone he didn't own shortly before 4am on Wednesday.

Fullback Anthony Minichiello was sacked on Friday night for taking his mobile phone with him when he, Gasnier and a group of other players went back out after Gould and the team management thought they had returned to the team hotel for good at 3am on Wednesday.

He was suitably punished at the time and I bet he grew up a bit as a result of that punishment

[Guest]

If it ever came down to it...again, I'd pick Nick "City Ford says Roosters won't go broke in 1976" Politis over whatever CEO we have at the moment or Coach for that matter.

The following is an imagined conversation

Nick Politis - "We need a halfback, Wing's good but Freddy's getting tired doing both roles and we want to preserve him. A reserve grade player at the Bulldogs named Jonathan Thurston's been getting great wraps and he's off contract, we should buy him"
Ricky Stuart - "I remember Thurston when I was at the Dogs. He'll make it big in reserve grade, never in first grade."
Politis - "If you're sure Ricky."
Stuart - "Yeah, I'm sure. He's a nuffie."
Politis - "Well, who's left."
Stuart - "Matty Elliot at Canberra tells me that Brett Finch is going great guns but they want to go with Monaghan and McLinden, so he's free."
Politis - "Okay, I'll call his manager."

[bondi-boy]

Just to keep things in perspective, regarding Carney's sins:


http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/...850912201.html


Perkins tells how prank nearly got him sacked


Kieren Perkins has revealed he was nearly thrown off the 1994 Commonwealth Games team and sent home in disgrace, days before breaking two world records, after firing an air pistol at the athletes' village in an act of "tomfoolery".

Taken down ... Facebook page photo of Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice at a party.

He said swimmers trained hard and were very disciplined, but when allowed a small opportunity to have a drink had tended to binge-drink.

"Culturally there is the attitude 'let's get hammered'," Perkins said.

Perkins conceded that he would not have got off so lightly today, but pointed out that nobody got hurt by his prank, after he smuggled the pistol into the athletes' village at the Games in Canada.

Swimming's squeaky-clean image has taken a severe battering, but those in the inner circle say it has only ever been a carefully controlled facade.

Yesterday swimming authorities organised for swimmers' profiles on social networking website Facebook to be removed — including provocative pictures of swimmers partying and drinking.

Perkins, a former board member of Swimming Australia, said there had been cases of swimmers waking up on beaches unaware of how they got there, and even some arrests for minor indiscretions.

[Pass the Ball]

What happens when Watt's girlfriend drops the charges...??

[Johnny Tobin]

Noyce has always been an excellent operator

It's just a shame that we're the only club in the comp whose CEO is entirely hamstrung by the chairman

So Richo has the last say?

There is no reason for you to toe the company line on Uncle Nick.

[bondi-boy]

What happens when Watt's girlfriend drops the charges...??

IF she does.

Should be the same result as Lui:

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/l...927-15tmk.html

The rising league star handed himself into police after a complaint about an incident early on Sunday morning, hours after the Tigers had exited the NRL finals in a 13-12 loss to St George Illawarra at ANZ Stadium.

The offences include two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, three of common assault, one of malicious damage, one of choke with intent to commit an indictable offence, one of detain for advantage and one of aggravated robbery.

"Burwood police have arrested a 20-year-old man in relation to allegations of a domestic violence-related assault on the weekend," the statement read.

"The incident is alleged to have occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning at an address in Abbotsford.

"A woman suffered facial injuries.

"The matter was reported to police later that day."


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http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/l...413-1ddwr.html

Wests Tigers halfback Robert Lui has had assault charges dismissed in a Sydney court.

Lui appeared in Burwood Local Court today after he had been charged with nine offences in September last year.

They related to his then pregnant partner Taleah Rae Backo, who he has since reunited with.

[Vasco]

I understand your views

One day in the future though, when Politis is gone, you'll see the difference

Then you'll understand why all the other clubs have their chairmans at arms length from decisions relating to football operations

There is no doubt it has its pros and cons.

[bondi-boy]

He was suitably punished at the time and I bet he grew up a bit as a result of that punishment

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Indeed, and Carney is only 24.

Was Mini sacked from the club?
No.

Gasnier played in the Grand Final.

[bondi-boy]

Swimming's squeaky-clean image has taken a severe battering, but those in the inner circle say it has only ever been a carefully controlled facade.

Yesterday swimming authorities organised for swimmers' profiles on social networking website Facebook to be removed — including provocative pictures of swimmers partying and drinking.

Perkins, a former board member of Swimming Australia, said there had been cases of swimmers waking up on beaches unaware of how they got there, and even some arrests for minor indiscretions.


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My point...Carney is not the only one, and the NRL is not the only sport.