‘It’s not a cap, it’s a sombrero!’

[Larry Long Balls]

Which one is fatso?

(Please keep sticking your chin out Rustle...)

He really is looking morbidly obese, just like his BFF little Jimmy Packer.

[Larry Long Balls]

You have to ask why he wanted get out clauses every year?

Apparently wasn't impressed by rusty's culture talks....had something to do with the kylie Kwongs he was punching all weekend ...... was worried with benett leaving what kind of stability the club would have.... so no wonder he wanted options to leave.

Chooks provided him with confidence and stability. Not all decisions come down to dollars

He will be worth over a million dollars a season very soon. For the Souffs scum to lowball him on a 5 year deal speaks volunes.

[Steakface]

That gut on Crowe screams raging alcoholic with mental illness.

To be frank, I reckon there is probably a heap of shit about Rusty over the years that has been swept under the carpet due to his connections.

Just you wait.....

[Rooster1908]

That gut on Crowe screams raging alcoholic with mental illness.

To be frank, I reckon there is probably a heap of shit about Rusty over the years that has been swept under the carpet due to his connections.

Just you wait.....

He hangs with vermin , toothless dole bludging scum , of course he's hiding something

[mattyh]

a little hypocritical of rusty here, yes the roosters do have advantages in signing players , so do bris, melb, souffs, nz, newcastle etc. i would say souffs roster is the equal of ours this season, and then they go an sign benji , hardly a no name to play off the bench ...pot, kettle black here rusty, but go your hardest

[The Skeez]

I wonder if this is what Paul Kent was suggesting to earlier in the week with his - 2021 Bold Prediction:
Rooster and Rabbitohs to become engulfed in a salary cap war

[Bruce Pickett]

The phone chucker is a childish, classless fool. Uncle Nick would never stoop so low.

[Teddy]

Bahahahaha I think it is appropriate to just LOL@Souffs.
The SHIT STAIN of the league!

[theGman]

Bahahahaha I think it is appropriate to just LOL@Souffs.
The SHIT STAIN of the league!

UP YOURS RUSTY YOU MEGALOMANIAC!!!

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Two Souths deals that highlight stunning hypocrisy in Reynolds contract saga

FOX SPORTSMARK ST JOHN@markdfstjohnMarch 8, 2021 1:25pm

The hypocrisy in South Sydney’s decision to only offer their captain and the heart and soul of the club Adam Reynolds any more than a one year deal is simply stunning.


The 206-game veteran and club junior who turns 31 this season was low-balled with a one-year contract extension offer for 2022 and understandably he felt he and the club were not on the same page.

The defence out of the South Sydney camp centres on a reported new policy on contract negotiations with players in their 30s after they were burnt in the past, most notably and recently with Sam Burgess and Greg Inglis.

The two former club captains were signed to multi-year mega deals in their on the verge of their 30s and had to be paid out when injury forced them both to prematurely retire.

Inglis signed a three-year contract extension in 2016 at the age of 29, but retired nearly two full seasons before that deal was due to expire. He has since announced a comeback with Warrington in the Super League.

Similarly Burgess in 2018 and also 29-years-old signed a four-year contract extension that tied him to the club until the end of 2023 on big money.

A chronic shoulder injury forced Burgess to retire three full seasons before that deal expired.

The South Sydney hierarchy are reluctant to give Reynolds a long-term deal for fear of history repeating itself, which screams of making Reynolds pay for the club’s sins of the past.

But if it is club policy to only offer one-year extensions to players on the wrong side of 30, the Rabbitohs have conveniently forgotten about a couple of contracts on their books, both of which came after the Inglis and Burgess deals.

Reynolds’ halves partner Cody Walker now 31, was given a two-year contract extension in December of 2019 a matter of weeks shy of his 30th birthday.

However by the time that contract expires at the end of the 2022 season, Walker will be nearly 33 years old.

Walker’s deal was reportedly in the vicinity of $700,000 a year.

Fast-forward to the 2021 off-season and Panthers veteran Josh Mansour was given a two-year- deal despite turning 31 in June of this year.

He will be 32 and a half by the time that deal comes to an end.

South Sydney are right to protect themselves from future payouts for injury-prone and ageing stars, but Reynolds is the wrong player to make an example out of.

Reynolds has played nine full seasons in the NRL since debuting in 2012 and in all that time has only played under 20 games in a season twice. He played 18 games in 2015 and 16 in 2016.

In the last four seasons he has played 21, 24, 25 and 23 games, which is hardly the output of an injury-prone player.

Reynolds also plays a different position to Inglis and Burgess, who played with a lot more physicality in their roles, which made them more susceptible to injury.

Reynolds is also the club captain after being given the role last season, with Wayne Bennett saying his history with club he supported as a kid growing up in Redfern played a role in tipping him ahead of fellow candidates Damien Cook and Walker.

He is also the club’s greatest ever pointscorer, has one of the best kicking games in the NRL and has taken the club to five preliminary finals and won a premiership in 2014.

Not many other half-back’s in the NRL possess a CV that comes close.

Even if the club feels that Reynolds might not be the man to get them over the hump and win another competition you still have to have a better option to replace him. There aren’t many better halfbacks than Reynolds out there on the open market.

Yes it would be bad business to give Reynolds a three or four-year-extension similar to those given to Burgess and Inglis, given that he will be 34 or 35 by the time it comes to an end.

But surely there is some middle ground for a player of his stature.

Clubs would be lining up for a No.7 of Reynolds’ calibre if the Rabbitohs don’t smarten up and get ‘on the same page’ as their skipper.

He might not deserve a four-year-deal, but one is an insult for a great servant of the club and the Rabbitohs put their future of contending for the title at risk if they let him leave without a suitable replacement on their books.

[JB_Cloey]

I love how they respond to mismanagement with more mismanagement.

This will help restrict their premierships to the frequency of Halley's comet.

Suits me fine.

[ism22]

He really is looking morbidly obese, just like his BFF little Jimmy Packer.

Packer's life literally involves hanging out on his stupid boat, smoking a carton of durries a day and ignoring calls from advisers who are like 'dude you just lost another $5 million today!!! I know it sounds like jack shyte when you have like $10 billion in the bank but you inherited $50 billion!!! If you don't pull your finger out, it'll dry up...'

[Paddo Colt 61]

Mmmm....lot of emotion on display in this thread. One of the milder comments rebuked Crowe for not commenting when Souths signed Trell for the same money but the poster didn't take into account that The Chooks had essentially fired him. Elsewhere, there appears to be little appreciation of the irony that Crowe's passion is the same as their own - he's tribal and of course he's going to slag off when given an opportunity - it's all part of the theatre of NRL. But more than that, ultimately the slagging means bums on seats and he's an owner, an investor and presumably wants to see a return - it's a call to the Warren (and to the Pen by the looks).
Passion is all very well and I admit to laughing at sections the Pen heckling the Souths early leavers back in the Fittler days but I'd hate to see a time in the future when the passion of the more meat headed amongst us turned to hatred and we had a situation where the fans of rival clubs were beaten up before and after games with cards left on them reading "You have been tried and found guilty of being a Souffs supporter" (or any other team) Millwall style.

[Spirit of 66]

Passion is all very well and I admit to laughing at sections the Pen heckling the Souths early leavers back in the Fittler days but I'd hate to see a time in the future when the passion of the more meat headed amongst us turned to hatred and we had a situation where the fans of rival clubs were beaten up before and after games with cards left on them reading "You have been tried and found guilty of being a Souffs supporter" (or any other team) Millwall style.

I've been following the Roosters since the late 1960s and apart from a couple of drunken scuffles on the hill at the Sydney Sports Ground and SCG, I can't remember any crowd thuggery from Roosters fans... or for that matter Vermin fans. We just agree to hate each other and leave it at that.

Dogs fans are a different matter. They can really get out of control - at the ground, on buses and trains, anywhere. I remember being spat on by a 10 year old girl at Belmore one time. And there was that Nazi guy, The Skull, who got into mischief when St George lost.

No, we'd never beat up Souths fans. Most of them have no teeth to knock out anyway.

[JB_Cloey]

Mmmm....lot of emotion on display in this thread. One of the milder comments rebuked Crowe for not commenting when Souths signed Trell for the same money but the poster didn't take into account that The Chooks had essentially fired him. Elsewhere, there appears to be little appreciation of the irony that Crowe's passion is the same as their own - he's tribal and of course he's going to slag off when given an opportunity - it's all part of the theatre of NRL. But more than that, ultimately the slagging means bums on seats and he's an owner, an investor and presumably wants to see a return - it's a call to the Warren (and to the Pen by the looks).
Passion is all very well and I admit to laughing at sections the Pen heckling the Souths early leavers back in the Fittler days but I'd hate to see a time in the future when the passion of the more meat headed amongst us turned to hatred and we had a situation where the fans of rival clubs were beaten up before and after games with cards left on them reading "You have been tried and found guilty of being a Souffs supporter" (or any other team) Millwall style.

For somebody who associates themselves with an Easts junior club, I am perplexed that you are not degusted with the treatment of our Juniors by South Sydney.

In recent years (although it may have been just prior to the rebirth of Paddo Colts), they kicked all of our mini and mod juniors (ie up to under 13) out of the joint junior comp (which they controlled) as revenge for a Souths junior signing with our senior club.

How can you have any respect for a club that takes revenge on our kids?

If you need more examples, there's a very long list that is repeated regularly on this forum.

I have only seen one example of violence when a drunk Souffs supporter sitting in the Chookpen starting harassing a young woman sitting with her family. I don't even think it was a Souffs game.

[theGman]

Mmmm....lot of emotion on display in this thread. One of the milder comments rebuked Crowe for not commenting when Souths signed Trell for the same money but the poster didn't take into account that The Chooks had essentially fired him. Elsewhere, there appears to be little appreciation of the irony that Crowe's passion is the same as their own - he's tribal and of course he's going to slag off when given an opportunity - it's all part of the theatre of NRL. But more than that, ultimately the slagging means bums on seats and he's an owner, an investor and presumably wants to see a return - it's a call to the Warren (and to the Pen by the looks).
Passion is all very well and I admit to laughing at sections the Pen heckling the Souths early leavers back in the Fittler days but I'd hate to see a time in the future when the passion of the more meat headed amongst us turned to hatred and we had a situation where the fans of rival clubs were beaten up before and after games with cards left on them reading "You have been tried and found guilty of being a Souffs supporter" (or any other team) Millwall style.

Call it theatre or whatever you like PC but at the end of the day, as the saying goes - people in glass houses.........Roosters fans especially aren't going to be subject to Crowe's hypocrisy such as his idiotic comments about chequebook rugby league. The dumb %$#^ soon realised his welterweights were just making up the numbers & couldn't match it with the premiership heavyweights so he and his turkeyneck mate started writing cheques for the likes of Asotasi, Burgearse, Dave Taylor (LOL), Inglis, Teo, Cook, etc....
I love it how nobody questions Souffs' salary cap for 2021 given their signings and roster. I could be wrong but isn't their present cap paying a portion of Inglis and Burgess' retirement fund?