That's 42 more than I want to show up.
Great post but just remember Queenslanders hate you too lol
Wrong. It is about the money. And thats where my issue is. Theres no doubting their skill and longevity, and im a massive fan of both. I feel priveleged that they have played football while i have watched it. But the NRL allowing them to make a massive payday inside of the salary cap is a massive slap in the face to every other club.
Exactly. Plus if you add all the payments from rep games that they have earned over the years to their already massive salaries, they hardly need the NRL to allow this on top.
I'm OK with that.....
OK so the facts of it are that players have to have played a min of 250 games with the one club uninterrupted, not brought the game into disrepute, played high level rep footy and a few other quals. So apart from Simon Mannering and Sam Thaiday no-one else counts. The proceeds from the game go mainly to charity with a relatively small carve up between Thurston and Smith - maybe $200k each depending on how many turn up. So, given both players are already on well over $1m a year now particularly with TPA's what's the big deal? It's a trial game so it has no impact on the competition and makes a whole lot more sense than them selling cars or tampons or whatever. At the end of the day we are talking about fans paying homage to a couple of blokes who are absolute icons of the game. Good luck to them.
You have to be absolutely kidding.
Not even a little bit. You think Thurston isn't worshipped by thousands of kids? Have a look at the jumpers on the kids backs all over Qld. Walk around Melbourne and notice the 9's on kids backs. I dunno maybe you think Gallen or Carney or SKD are better role models. It's just that the kids don't agree with you.
If you said the last 10 years, yeah i would agree with ya but the last 40 years, please. wtf when did i say anything about gallen or carney?
Couldn't agree more Smith and in particular Thurston are two of the best ambassadors for the game to junior fans we have had for a very long time.We will see a never ending stream of QLD juniors try to emulate the achievements of these two men
If this is the case then so be it. But where are you getting this info? Its not what the newspaper article says. Not that i take their say as gospel.
That rules out Mr 2 contracts Smith & Mr I was so drunk I slept on the ground outside of my unit & was arrested outside the Treasury Casino for public nuisance Thurston
Come on you guys. I have a brilliant idea the dogs play a testimonial game for Dessie for his invaluable contribution to the club . For him transforming good players into has beens, for his ability to develop the slowest forwards in the game and to his amazing ability of restricting the players to limited tries this year so that a player of yesteryear aka Hazem could hold more tries to his name in one season than the rest of the team put together. Congratulations Des for creating a football team of duds, you deserve such high accolades because you have made history by producing one of the most negative sides in the NRL and we need to send you off with heaps of money with a testimonial game because you was never paid highly enough at the bulldogs. The club will build a monument to you Des for a solid demolition of a once great proud club.
