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Nathan Sharpe (72)
Allen is quoted as a source for the proposition that there was a top up: once that's established it's only a question of how badly the ARU has erred.
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Thoughts on Folau to rugby
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Il start by saying that I probably shouldn't have commented last night because it followed one too many cold milks at my Christmas party...
We don't know if the article is true, but things like this have a way of been leaked, it could have been an ARU employee that didn't necessarily agree with the recruitment.
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Allen Oxlade (6)
It's a shame about this article, Mr. Masters is capable of something alot better.
It seems to me that it is intended just to divide us rugby folk (like we haven't had enough of that this year).
I won't be quoting too much from that article.
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Peter Fenwicke (45)
Just on the top up alone, if a team has room in their budget to take on a short term contract like this fair enough it's their gamble. But I don't see why the ARU or any National Union should top up a short term contract for someone who'll be doing well to nail down a regular starting spot for the Tahs let alone pull on the green and gold.
If it was a nominal top-up and he and the Tahs have a fantastic season then it was a smart piece of business by the ARU but many will probably say more by luck than judgement.
If it was a nominal top-up and he and the Tahs have a fantastic season then it was a smart piece of business by the ARU but many will probably say more by luck than judgement.
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Rocky Elsom (76)
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Is this the type of new fans rugby is trying to attract by signing Israel 
http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/...o-e6frf3ou-1226532460509?subcat=1225914677120
Seems like a smart way to spend your lotto winnings
http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/...o-e6frf3ou-1226532460509?subcat=1225914677120
Seems like a smart way to spend your lotto winnings
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Rocky Elsom (76)
^^ Oh dear. A northern Collingwood one. Just what GWS were trying to tap into.
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John Hipwell (52)
Eels offer = $750,000 per season for 4 years
Tahs offer = $250,000 per season for 1 year
Nothing Folau has said so far leads me to think he is so keen on rugby, he does not sound passionate at all about the move. I can't see him turning down half a million bucks to come to the code for 1 year. The journo may have a bad reputation but IMHO the numbers without an ARU contribution don't stack up.
Tahs offer = $250,000 per season for 1 year
Nothing Folau has said so far leads me to think he is so keen on rugby, he does not sound passionate at all about the move. I can't see him turning down half a million bucks to come to the code for 1 year. The journo may have a bad reputation but IMHO the numbers without an ARU contribution don't stack up.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
doesn't quoting Allen as saying the ARU "helped" mean its more probable than not that the ARU gave him a top up: even if they just gave him cabcharge vouchers to help get him to training there was no justification for that.
The ARU was in a completely different place when Lote and Sailor came over and they, incidentally, had been playing at the highest level in a much more similar code than IF has been playing for 2 years.
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Rocky Elsom (76)
Someone has posted that a Tin Hat has proposed a theory that the QC (Quade Cooper) Settlement and most likely ARU Top up of Folau's contract were part of a vote buying manoeuvre for the ARU constitutional changes.
NSWRU were obviously not about to let QRU get away with $400k for QC (Quade Cooper) without a quid pro quo for their vote.
It all seems to fit. Petty but typical of what seems to occur with some regularity out of ARU/NSWRU/QRU powerbrokers.
NSWRU were obviously not about to let QRU get away with $400k for QC (Quade Cooper) without a quid pro quo for their vote.
It all seems to fit. Petty but typical of what seems to occur with some regularity out of ARU/NSWRU/QRU powerbrokers.
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Mark Loane (55)
I'm sure they have no common interest.
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David Wilson (68)
Masters is a good journalist, but a like a lot of league journos and commentators, he feels the need to try to find a way to make a negative comment about rugby at every opportunity. Others who are even worse include: Rebecca Wilson, Jim Wilson, Paul Kent, just about anyone on channel 9, etc.
When these guys talk about many issues in league they'll make a comment like "we don't want to end up like rugby". What it really shows is how insecure some of them feel about their own game. Whilst they know that AFL are cashed up and soccer is the largest game in the world, it is rugby which competes for the same type of athletes and appeals to people who favour contact sports.
I don't mind league as a game, but the journos and commentators are, by and large, small minded boofheads who fail to realise the insignificance of their own sport beyond NSW, QLD, Auckland and the north of England.
It's usually better to ignore such people.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
I didn't realise it was masters' article: I've never read one before that actually made sense. Maybe he's improving.
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John Solomon (38)
Tattoo parlour, say $20,000
Hairdresser, say 15,000
Dentist, say nil
Spending the rest on this pathetic car, only to be forced to use taxi's because you've lost your license ------- priceless!!!!
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