FitzSimons warns of the danger of allowing Suaalii to play before 1 August

[zac]

In a lot of cultures there are initiation rites for young men. Many of these rites involve pain. Lots of it. These young men, keen to test themselves, readily sign up for it. They welcome the pain. Welcome the challenge. They want to know if they are ready to be men. It's good for them.

Sadly, in our culture, there are no such initiation rites. So our young men invent ways of testing themselves. They drive their cars dangerously. They skylark from balconies and clifftops. They overindulge in drugs and alcohol. They want to test themselves. They want to know if they can take it. If they are men.

So when a young bloke wants to play football at the highest level, he wants to test himself. It's a sport. He won't get killed.

Mollycoddling our youth doesn't work. They will find ways of testing themselves.

Football is one of the safer ways.

Let him play.

that's a long bow. he's being asked to wait 5 more months. if we think he's ready i don't have a problem with it but just cos fitzimmons says the nrl should implement their policy doesn't mean they shouldn't.

[dice]

I seem to have struck a raw nerve with the ideologue. Burning the books. Jeepers. Let's talk Dr Seuss.

Go and re-read my initial post. It was on point. Fitzsimons lead a media campaign to humiliate a child, and then pretends to care about the mental well-being of someone who could snap him in two.

It was you who politicised this thread and well before I joined the conversation. Get over yourself.

[Paddo Colt 61]

"Raw nerve"? You? Quoted you only 'cos you were last in the Conga Line. Why would a working fella like I presume you are you hate the Greens? Like I say, you lot have no political opinion the origin of which is not News Ltd.
Why not post a detailed "This I Believe" and give us all a good laugh.

[Timmah]

There is seemingly always one dick on rugby league blogs that feels it encumbent upon themselves to steer the conversation away from footy, toward their boring political diatribe....paddo colt is the Chook Pen’s.
In the immortal words of professor Julius Sumner-Miller
”why is it so?”
Always good for a laugh though...

Go the mighty Roosters

[roostermcgregor]

"Originally posted by The Brain"

Take it from here and I do not know when and if it will but someone is spilling beans on a certain teams and a few Cayman Island accounts belonging to 4 former players and 2 current...lets see if NRL try to sweep this under the carpet...I cant give you any clues who !....lo
Please let it be true



That's interesting Brain.
I can tell you that tax avoidance (lowering your tax bill , within the existing tax laws) is OK
But Tax Evasion (in other words, Fraud) is completely illegal , and it can lead to a Criminal prosecution..
So if you are alluding to people moving their income, into offshore bank accounts in the Caymans, to evade the Aussie Taxman, then that can be a Criminal matter. It can also lead to Jail time.

[Thirteen]

I think the decision to blood a young player should be entirely in the hands of the club. After all, it’s all about winning so the club is hardly going to play a guy in their side that isn’t ready.

[zac]

I think the decision to blood a young player should be entirely in the hands of the club. After all, it’s all about winning so the club is hardly going to play a guy in their side that isn’t ready.

yeah, but the point is that cos clubs are about winning they don't worry about the long term repercussions of playing someone too soon.
but hearing suaalii speak, he's clearly switched on, so you'd think he might be able to cope with the mental side of things. if we think he's ready i trust the club. from a physical side, having a few more ks of muscle and a few more games v men in reserves wouldn't hurt.

[Rooster1908]

Agree with this if we were talking about the Vermin but we have proved that we put players first and winning second , so many times we have let players have extra weeks of when they could have come back earlier according to the medical advice

[redwhiteblue]

yeah, but the point is that cos clubs are about winning they don't worry about the long term repercussions of playing someone too soon.
but hearing suaalii speak, he's clearly switched on, so you'd think he might be able to cope with the mental side of things. if we think he's ready i trust the club. from a physical side, having a few more ks of muscle and a few more games v men in reserves wouldn't hurt.

I remember when SBW was getting stress fractures around the age of 19 and a US college actually had used him in a study. Then Mitchell Pearce sustained a similar back injury around that age too on a Monday night game against Canterbury. My friend's son had a promising career coming through the juniors with the Crocs but then he too got a stress issue with his back at age 18. Each occasion meant a lengthy stint on the sidelines - not something a young man at that age should be subjected to. It's all very well to be surrounded by good and well meaning people to keep the players grounded and supported and to take care of their wellbeing mentally, but people forget that their bodies are still growing at that age (look how tall SBW is now) and training boys along side men was part of the college study and this is how these types of injuries occur. You can't train a 18 year old the same as a 28 year old because their bodies are at different stages of growth.

[The Sack]

Fitzsimmons was great friends with Peter Roebuck, the pedo journo who committed suicide in South Africa. He knew about it, never said anything and even defended him. Says alot about his character.

[zac]

Fitzsimmons was great friends with Peter Roebuck, the pedo journo who committed suicide in South Africa. He knew about it, never said anything and even defended him. Says alot about his character.

he knew about it? yeah? he was part of pedophile ring?

[The Sack]

he knew about it? yeah? he was part of pedophile ring?

Not part of any ring, but he knew his mate was a rock spider.

[zac]

Not part of any ring, but he knew his mate was a rock spider.

yeah?
calling someone a pedo or a pedo enabler is the worst thing you can call someone. what do you mean he knew? he saw things with his own eyes?

[Mickie Lane]

yeah?
calling someone a pedo or a pedo enabler is the worst thing you can call someone. what do you mean he knew? he saw things with his own eyes?

It would all be hear say zac unless The Sack is a pedo himself then he may know something.

[Bondicigar]

Well, well, well.. who woulda thought, almost the entire conga line of the Pen's Right Wing nut jobs (13 hasn't weighed in yet) in agreement. Of course they're right and the NRL's wrong. Come to think of it, they're not criticising the NRL, once again the Bandanna's the target. His sin? Explaining the age restriction policy to readers who might be confused about it. The fcukin' hide of him!
The wing nuts that these guys folla (and they themselves) are not so much unconcerned about truth as seemingly unaware that such a thing exists.
One of the problems with leaving in Year 10 is that, thereafter, one tends to rely on those other poorly performed Year 10s at News Ltd or on the loudmouth at the barbie. I can think of far better targets to bag atm - Glad, the boyfriend and the inside info, Scummo who never seems to know much about anything (the old Johnny Howard line) and all of those other Libs who put political management before concern and sympathy for female employees.
The Bandanna man is not being critical of the Chooks. Quite the opposite.

An expensive education is not a vaccine

for being a fool