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This is the drunk again trying to cause trouble with our club. He did an article yesterday about the NRL being at its worst. Well the news is rothfield the reason the nrl is at its worst is because of your paper and elements of the media writing negative articles about the nrl. You and your tele mates are poison to the nrl and greenberg and Beattie are to blame as well. The game would be better of without you all. This is a positive for the dogs having two off the stongest clubs behind them you wanker.What’s the Buzz: Dogfight over coach Dean Pay’s promotion for rival
Phil Rothfield, The Sunday Telegraph
an hour ago
Coach Dean Pay is embroiled in a row at Canterbury Bulldogs over a series of radio commercials with TV star Erin Molan to promote one of the club’s biggest rivals.
A photo of Pay is also being used on the side of a bus to endorse Bankstown RSL and its recently renovated dining and gaming facilities after a multimillion-dollar makeover.
However, the RSL is Canterbury League Club’s biggest rival.
The Bulldogs recently completed their own $106 million licensed club renovation and hired a new chief executive, Greg Pickering, to attract business and arrest a profit slump from recent years.
LISTEN TO THE AD IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ABOVE
Bulldogs coach Dean Pay.
They are desperately trying to rebuild the club that was once among the top three in NSW.
Canterbury League Club gives the Bulldogs an annual grant of up to $7 million. Without them, the NRL team would not survive.
Club chairman George Coorey declined to comment, referring us to Bulldogs football chief executive Andrew Hill who gave Pay permission to do the advertising campaign.
The RSL is a sleeve sponsor of the club’s junior rep teams — Harold Matthews, SG Ball and Tarsha Gale Cup but has no role with the NRL team.
LISTEN TO THE AD IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ABOVE
“They’ve (the RSL) put money into our juniors for three or four years,” Hill said.
“It was a one-off opportunity to help another community organisation that pours money into junior sport.”
Hill is one of the game’s most highly regarded young officials but his decision to allow Pay to promote a rival organisation has gone down poorly with Belmore powerbrokers.
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