Opinion Media Laying the Boot In

Jai81

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the media just hates the bulldogs! they always have...
 

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1. It's a question not a fact. The answer being that Meaney was getting rag dolled and made no metres on kick returns and obviously Hopoate was more effective for us at centre.
2. It's a question not a fact. The obvious answer being because JO's dick got him deregistered and the NRL wouldn't let us replace him.
3. Meaningless dribble
4. How doe he know that Pay pushed for it?
5. They were players not already on long term contracts, plus we could actually afford them under our Cap constraints
6. Because Katoa was worse, as proven
7. Maybe there is nothing there to get out.
8. That started happening years prior, hasn't played for Australia since 2014, SOO since 2017
9. Meaney
10. Holland was the bench back up for a number of positions, hooker being one of them
11. How do you know Meaney was signed as an NRL fullback? Maybe as a CC fullback, or maybe like TTrbojevic, Tedesco and Slater etc was signed to spend some time at winger whilst learning NRL level fitness and consistency.
12. Plainly knows nothing about Steve James or what a skills coach actually does. The fact that some of the players can't retain the skills is a reflection on the players not the coaches.
13. He was a back up to the back up hooker and, as per #6 above, that was about his level.

Just my opinions of course.
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Some opinions eventually become fact that most people can see and understand which certainly appears to be the case with Dean. Nice bloke but clearly the deficiency's in his training methods have resulted in his demise, they did not move him on because he is not a good bloke anymore. Or you can just point by point put up "meaningless dribble" yourself to quote a Twin phrase.

For what its worth I think they (the Club, CEO and The Anderson's) have handled their "privilege" of being put in charge of this great club, in a piss poor manner and their treatment and dealing with Dean Pay a disgrace. If you are going to give someone an impossible job that they will most likely fail at (because of the mess left behind) they should have given him the players he asked for and 100 % supported him with quality assistants (Fitzgibbon, Ennis, Kimmorley etc) and perhaps some consultation with someone like Gould or Griffin.

Instead they sat back and did nothing but roll out excuse after excuse and did nothing pro active and then when the heat was on and there was no plan B, threw him to the gutter and are now probably hiring a failed reject, non bulldog assistant to spend our hard earned cap space.

They can fuck off and join Dean at Centrelink.
 

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All this media negativity there has to be lynn or Andrew hill come out and say something ..

We are being picked apart left , right and centre from media

The simple fact is , pay did not earn the right to recruit 3M worth of talent when the last 2.5yrs has shown he’s just not up to it .

The right call was made .

But someone please stand up for the club ffs
 

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Exactly the Broncos are awful. That win against us means nothing as they wont be able to win many games this year. Siebold is gooooooone
To be fair most people on this forum were doing the same thing after we beat the diabolical dragons in Rd 4. Barely beating a shit side is nothing to get excited about.
Yep, and Pay was also doing the same thing as well. Will never forget his smug face in an interview after the win. He made it clear that everybody knew he was responsible for the positional changes (Hoppa to Fullback, DWZ to wing) and that was why we won lol
 

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Honestly could not give three fifths of a fuck if the media are giving it to us.
But giving it to us they are turning players, coaches, fans and even referees against us, it might be the reason why its hard to sign players.
 

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The media are acting like we killed Bambi in relation to sacking Pay. Its not painting a very good picture for potential sponsors of the club. They seem to forget that :

1. He knew what he was signing on for : and
2. No one was else was knocking down his door for a head coaching role when we hired him. The club gave him an opportunity that no one else was prepared to give him. He got a pay rise from his previous job and the chance to be a head coach.

Some balanced reporting would be nice. How about the treatment of coaches at the roosters in the past 20 years before Robinson ?

- Graham Murray (sacked in 2001 after finishing 6th that year and leading them to a GF in 2000) ;
- Ricky Stuart (sacked in 2006 which was 2 years after making 3 consecutive GF's) ;
- Chris Anderson (sacked after 6 months in 2007) ;
- Brad Fittler (club legend sacked in 2009 which was the year after making the top 4) ;
- Brian Smith (sacked in 2012 which was the year after making a GF)

I would see that as far more ruthless than what we have done to Pay. No one expected him to win a comp but surely the media and everyone can see that we have dished up this year demanded a change
I heard your message read out on Talkin’ sport mate. Lots of kennel people contacting them today
 

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The media are acting like we killed Bambi in relation to sacking Pay. Its not painting a very good picture for potential sponsors of the club. They seem to forget that :

1. He knew what he was signing on for : and
2. No one was else was knocking down his door for a head coaching role when we hired him. The club gave him an opportunity that no one else was prepared to give him. He got a pay rise from his previous job and the chance to be a head coach.

Some balanced reporting would be nice. How about the treatment of coaches at the roosters in the past 20 years before Robinson ?

- Graham Murray (sacked in 2001 after finishing 6th that year and leading them to a GF in 2000) ;
- Ricky Stuart (sacked in 2006 which was 2 years after making 3 consecutive GF's) ;
- Chris Anderson (sacked after 6 months in 2007) ;
- Brad Fittler (club legend sacked in 2009 which was the year after making the top 4) ;
- Brian Smith (sacked in 2012 which was the year after making a GF)

I would see that as far more ruthless than what we have done to Pay. No one expected him to win a comp but surely the media and everyone can see that we have dished up this year demanded a change
Usual sh!t we cop from the media.

They were all after Pays head and then when he is gone they all miss him and he was screwed.

What a bunch of needy needle dicks.
 

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The NRL360 panel spent the whole first segment giving it to our club

Getting rid of Pay is the best thing the board has done

He wasn’t their appointment so they don’t owe him anything other than the one year extension last year
 

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The NRL360 panel spent the whole first segment giving it to our club

Getting rid of Pay is the best thing the board has done

He wasn’t their appointment so they don’t owe him anything other than the one year extension last year
And they put klemmer as someone the board chased away.
James Graham was also the previous board, he was sent to get Woods so klemmer wouldn't sook

The ***** are hopeless and can't even get their facts right
 

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the media are appealing to the low iq league supporters..negative dogs stories sell.
 

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The previous board coach etc created the mess - Pay and the current board haven't been able to fix it.
 

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Is that where I’ve been going wrong Baz - I always thought the pirate outfit was a winner. Thanks for the tip mate :-).
Mate I’ve told you before the eye patch is to cover your eye not your old fella
 

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How good was Paul Kent talking shit today on 360 lol
And what’s the other flogs name who was crying poor for Pay.
I’m loving it. In 12 months when we start winning again, they’ll all forget lol
 

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We need club legends coming out and standing up for the club in the media.. Where are Lamb and Peponis in all of this?

They could spin it the other way and point out how Pay had to go and that we're an attractive option due to the cap space and how big a club we are. We need all the positive press that we can get right now.
 
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