Crikey, where did that boat in my garage come from? It just seemed to materialise out of nowhere. Not forgetting the $25,000 shopping vouchers given to me by my manager. Choice, aye?
Did you think we came down in the last shower? For those that think the ‘big four’ Melbourne Storm rugby league players didn’t know about their ‘second’ contracts and potential salary cap breaches, think again – most of them actually signed off on them.
There is some speculation floating around in the media that Greg Inglis, Cooper Cronk ( a former schoolboy rugby union player) and others are potentially considering a move to our game.
Like Izzy, it’s probably all bullshit but if it isn’t and there’s a skerrick of truth in it, then don’t bother ARU (Surprise! Confirmed today 17 July that it is bullshit, he’s off to the Broncos).
When they declined to top up Joey Johns back in 2004, it was because they were aware of rumours about his drug use.
As it turned out these were true and his character has again been affirmed over recent times. Aren’t we grateful Brett Robinson never coughed up?
With GI and cohorts, it’s not rumours but fact. These guys didn’t cooperate with the Deloitte’s News Ltd inquiry for a reason. Because legally they weren’t required to?
Here was a prime opportunity for them to clear their name but, of course, they squibbed it. What was that old saying in A Man for All Seasons, ‘silence gives consent’?
The odour emanating from this crowd is pungent. GI would make an outstanding rugby union player (he’s apparently the same size as Scott Higginbottom, Spiro) but the fact of the matter is he has said publicly that he doesn’t like our game and he wouldn’t fit in it.
I’m not that keen on his character either, judging by events over the past few years. He’s not the type of person I want playing for the Reds or any other Super 15 franchise.
These people are compromised. Their managers are compromised. How come my bank account now has a lazy $100,000 in it Allan? Where did that come from? Nudge nudge, wink, wink.
Izzy was using us as a bargaining chip but at least he was a clean living Christian guy who would probably never get caught up in something as tawdry as this.
You can’t say the same about GI. Ask his on-again, off-again girlfriend? That seems to be all swept under the carpet doesn’t it? Like Joey and Matty and Nate and Todd etc the list goes on and on….he’s been ‘rehabilitated’ – until next time anyway.
Can you imagine a guy like this adapting to the rugby culture? And whether you like it or not, there is a rugby culture.
I’ve said it before – it doesn’t involve shitting in hotel corridoors (or shoes), taking drugs, harrassing women, or beating up or glassing your girlfriend, or smashing up car windscreens.
Irrespective of whether you are Caucasian, Indigenous, Islander, Kiwi or South African or all of the aforementioned there’s a certain degree of personal responsibility, behaviour and respect that operates within our game.
From time to time the odd person let’s us down but overall the code is clean and operates with integrity. You can’t say the same about the mungos.
Their brand is particularly ‘untidy’ and these sorts of things keep reinforcing the ‘untidiness’ of it all. It just keeps coming and coming, year after year.
I wonder how many other Rugby League Clubs are cheating the system like the Melbourne Storm did?
I’m looking forward to the results of the Four Corners investigation currently going on. I bet there’s heaps of them?
You’d think there’d be quite a few Rugby League Chief Executives concerned about what’s to be revealed? More dishonesty I suspect.
Like Izzy before him (and didn’t that turn out a beauty) I say to GI stick to what you know. That’s a known known, not an unknown unknown….
