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With sponsors like that who needs enemies. Gotta feel for him personally bearing the brunt of loosing a sponsor for forgetting the end of a speech?
 

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With sponsors like that who needs enemies. Gotta feel for him personally bearing the brunt of loosing a sponsor for forgetting the end of a speech?
Those sponsors have done themselves more harm than good. People are giving it to them on Facebook. FFS it's not as if RJ did it on purpose... and he did feel embarrassed and bad about it already. This dog act by the sponsors is just salt into the wound. Pathetic really.
 
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Those sponsors have done themselves more harm than good. People are giving to them on Facebook. FFS it's not as if RJ did it on purpose... and he did feel embarrassed and bad about it already. This dog act by the sponsors is just salt into the wound. Pathetic really.
And it's not as though he posted body parts pics or was filmed fighting in the streets. Yet suffers as much humiliation as those who did. Strange times!
 

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Those sponsors have done themselves more harm than good. People are giving to them on Facebook. FFS it's not as if RJ did it on purpose... and he did feel embarrassed and bad about it already. This dog act by the sponsors is just salt into the wound. Pathetic really.
Agreed, the sponsor pulling out has backfired massively and people are raging.
Bad call on their part. they would have been far better making a public statement about them supporting him and received positive publicity. LOL
 

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Agreed, the sponsor pulling out has backfired massively and people are raging.
Bad call on their part. they would have been far better making a public statement about them supporting him and received positive publicity. LOL
Yep - or being quiet altogether. This reminds me of how things backfired on Wicked Sister last year.

Now THAT was entertaining. LOL.
 

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Yep - or being quiet altogether. This reminds me of how things backfired on Wicked Sister last year.

Now THAT was entertaining. LOL.
what actually came of that? I missed it.
 

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Is it actually confirmed that this is why they are walking away? terrible pr move!!
 

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With sponsors like that who needs enemies. Gotta feel for him personally bearing the brunt of loosing a sponsor for forgetting the end of a speech?
I'm sure he felt pretty bad, but at least all i have really seen from the public and the league community is support for him.

i think he was won that award for community service they give out? (Ken Stephen medal?). Guy appears to be one of the Titans' only positives.
 

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Very tough player Ryan James been lucky to lose out a nsw bumper a lot with injury . Interesting to see how Holbrook goes I got told ash Taylor will be in Uk next year but maybe Holbrook will get him firing , when he’s on he’s on. Team with arrow , peachey, Taylor etc could be lethal next year . If they fail I’d dare say titans will be gone
 

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There’s probably more to it based on what I’ve witnessed.

During both my visits to Kingscliff in the latter stages of the NRL season I saw RJ emerge from the local bottle shop armed with a slab of beer on both occasions. Your injured club captain hitting the drink heavily throughout the season is a shocker look and this sorta stuff always makes it to the ears of club sponsors.

He’s apparently a nice enough bloke but he’s a boozehound and I wouldn’t be surprised if he spent more time swilling beer than practicing his lines beforehand.
 

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There’s probably more to it based on what I’ve witnessed.

During both my visits to Kingscliff in the latter stages of the NRL season I saw RJ emerge from the local bottle shop armed with a slab of beer on both occasions. Your injured club captain hitting the drink heavily throughout the season is a shocker look and this sorta stuff always makes it to the ears of club sponsors.

He’s apparently a nice enough bloke but he’s a boozehound and I wouldn’t be surprised if he spent more time swilling beer than practicing his lines beforehand.
So what if he bought a couple of cases of beer? How do you know he was drinking them or how many he drank? Maybe he was having people over and was being a good host and supplying beer? Maybe he had a mate do some work for him and is giving him a case of beer as thanks? There are a million reasons people buy slabs, and most dont involve someone being an alco.

You are making a bunch of unsubstantiated claims from seeing little more than someone buy some beer.
 

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So what if he bought a couple of cases of beer? How do you know he was drinking them or how many he drank? Maybe he was having people over and was being a good host and supplying beer? Maybe he had a mate do some work for him and is giving him a case of beer as thanks? There are a million reasons people buy slabs, and most dont involve someone being an alco.

You are making a bunch of unsubstantiated claims from seeing little more than someone buy some beer.
He’s a highly paid club captain of a team running last. He’s recovering from an injury, alcohol adversely affects injury recovery. Buying bulk grog on his own, as a public figure within that community, under those circumstances is a horrific look. And sponsors hear everything.

Point is this sponsor finally got an opportunity to terminate their association with the club without having to embarrassingly reveal the underlying cultural issues within, and they took it.
 

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He’s a highly paid club captain of a team running last. He’s recovering from an injury, alcohol adversely affects injury recovery. Buying bulk grog on his own, as a public figure within that community, under those circumstances is a horrific look. And sponsors hear everything.

Point is this sponsor finally got an opportunity to terminate their association with the club without having to embarrassingly reveal the underlying cultural issues within, and they took it.
Given all the negative backlash they've copped, I think society in general tends to disagree with you!
 

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He’s a highly paid club captain of a team running last. He’s recovering from an injury, alcohol adversely affects injury recovery. Buying bulk grog on his own, as a public figure within that community, under those circumstances is a horrific look. And sponsors hear everything.

Point is this sponsor finally got an opportunity to terminate their association with the club without having to embarrassingly reveal the underlying cultural issues within, and they took it.

Yeah a case is not "bulk grog." and is not a "horrific look." Dont be so dramatic.

No, point is you have absolutely zero proof he even drank the beer yet alone proof that the real reason the sponsor pulled the plug had anything to do with it.

You are deadset talking out your ahole.

The much more likely scenario is that the sponsors wanted to pull out due to on field performances and the mismanagement at the club and used James gaffe as an excuse. Thankfully this has blown up in their face.
 

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Given all the negative backlash they've copped, I think society in general tends to disagree with you!
Couldn’t give a rats what the popular belief within general society is. Few know the finer details of what went on at that club. At the top of the list - a head coach (now former) who would get shitfaced the night before away games. And it trickled down from there.

The sponsor actually listed a number of other reasons for the termination of sponsorship which cannot be argued with. But in true mass societal fashion they’ve identified one somewhat dubious line and savaged them for it.

With all the facts laid bare around the titans performance and culture this year, how could you possibly criticise a major sponsor for taking advantage of an out.
 

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The much more likely scenario is that the sponsors wanted to pull out due to on field performances and the mismanagement at the club.
Yep. Which they directly referred to in the very same press release.
 
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Couldn’t give a rats what the popular belief within general society is. Few know the finer details of what went on at that club. At the top of the list - a head coach (now former) who would get shitfaced the night before away games. And it trickled down from there.

The sponsor actually listed a number of other reasons for the termination of sponsorship which cannot be argued with. But in true mass societal fashion they’ve identified one somewhat dubious line and savaged them for it.

With all the facts laid bare around the titans performance and culture this year, how could you possibly criticise a major sponsor for taking advantage of an out.
You know... they could’ve terminated their contract without mentioning the Ryan James speech... at least it wouldn’t have backfired like this.
 

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I wonder how TFH feel about Dylan Walker
 

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If I was Ryan James I'd come out and say good riddance... ya shit fucking logo made our jerseys look like shit anyways
 
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