Manly Match-Fixing Investigation

[Budgie]

I must admit I do like the prospect of Zorba trying to throw his (considerable) weight around when it comes to the police:
Zorba: tell us everything
Police: no
Zorba: you have to
Police: don't
Zorba: do so
Police ... s i l e n c e

 

[Shoe1]

Luckily manly has a professional media manager, who will be able to guide the club through this crisis with wise advice and well-considered statements.



NOT!!!! :0)

Now is the time for bringing in a pro to advise on crisis management PR.

 

[Under the Sticks]

Not sure if it has been raised before in the 50 pages of posts but I'm not looking back fondly at our Centrebet sponsorship at the height of our success in 2011. Between them and Tom Waterhouse they really up the ante on rugby league betting advertising even renamed Penriths ground.

I preferred the old days where you left the old stinky deros to punt on footy tab in the corner of the pub or at the tab and everyone was happy... or sad.

Once again I long for the old days of rugby league when things were simpler and we all loved the game more but we still hated our rivals. Now we only have common disdain for the refs and nrl administration.

Better stop rant as am I am starting to sound like Gus and we all know that is not a good look

 

[Chip and Chase]

Luckily manly has a professional media manager, who will be able to guide the club through this crisis with wise advice and well-considered statements.



NOT!!!! :0)

Now is the time for bringing in a pro to advise on crisis management PR.

Nothing a quick "good sort" comment to Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn won't fix.

 

[Under the Sticks]

Luckily manly has a professional media manager, who will be able to guide the club through this crisis with wise advice and well-considered statements.


NOT!!!! :0)

Now is the time for bringing in a pro to advise on crisis management PR.

You know we actually have a media manager that is not Zorba. Just imagine going to work everyday dealing with ....well nothing as the big fella has it all covered.

Let's get another media type in there as well it

Nothing a quick "good sort" comment to Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn won't fix.

Skyhooks wrote a song about that didn't they?

 

[susan]

N

You know we actually have a media manager that is not Zorba. Just imagine going to work everyday dealing with ....well nothing as the big fella has it all covered.

Let's get another media type in there as well it

Skyhooks wrote a song about that didn't they?

Not sure about that but Horror Movie might be relevant

 

[Bearfax]

from the DT article:
"Details have also emerged of former and current Manly officials who expressed concern about events at the club in the last two seasons, which included a push to have Geoff Toovey sacked."

Anybody have any idea as to what this means? Is there some relevance to the fixing?

I know little about the inner workings of the Manly club and certainly dont know much about Toovey's personal life, but I do know a little about the law.

If a Manly official who made that comment is identified, and he has no evidence of Toovey being involved in this matter, he has brought himself and the football club into potentially deep manure. If it's an accurate quote and recorded, that's defamation of character even by implication and I would suggest Toovey's solicitors would be looking at the item very carefully.

As an official the person represents the club and therefore Toovey would have the right to sue the football club big time. I'll be interested to see how this pans out.

 

[Under the Sticks]

N

Not sure about that but Horror Movie might be relevant

Apparently Ego is getting dirtier as a word

 

[tookey]

Crack team? Is the Organised Crime Squad based in Parramatta?

Originally set up to investigate plumbers shorts

 

[tookey]

Anyone know who this is referring to ?

"It came as revelations emerged that photographs of a prominent rugby league player engaging in lewd acts with several prostitutes have been circulated in recent weeks."

The player is believed to go by the nickname of "big willy"

 

[Pommie Eagle]

Anyone know who this is referring to ?

"It came as revelations emerged that photographs of a prominent rugby league player engaging in lewd acts with several prostitutes have been circulated in recent weeks."

I was told this a week ago - photo is snorting a rack off a rack and the player is ex-Manly.....

 

[susan]

Heard this too but haven't seen it and don't know anybody who has.And you don't have to be Hercule Poirot to work out who it is if the photo does exist at all.

 

[Shoe1]

N

Not sure about that but Horror Movie might be relevant

You just like him 'cos he's good in bed

 

[Shoe1]

I know little about the inner workings of the Manly club and certainly dont know much about Toovey's personal life, but I do know a little about the law.

If a Manly official who made that comment is identified, and he has no evidence of Toovey being involved in this matter, he has brought himself and the football club into potentially deep manure. If it's an accurate quote and recorded, that's defamation of character even by implication and I would suggest Toovey's solicitors would be looking at the item very carefully.

As an official the person represents the club and therefore Toovey would have the right to sue the football club big time. I'll be interested to see how this pans out.

It's a clumsy sentence in the article, but I take it to mean that officials expressed concern about happenings at manly, including the push to have tooves sacked.

 

[MadMarcus]

The player is believed to go by the nickname of "big willy"

Not Robbo!! I don't believe it!!

 

[Frogz]

It's a clumsy sentence in the article, but I take it to mean that officials expressed concern about happenings at manly, including the push to have tooves sacked.

Or is it officials were concerned at the happenings and wanted to push Toovey out over it.

 

[fLIP]

We'll after all is said and done and his career does come unstuck. IF hes gonna fall from grace at least he's having one hell of a 'crack' at making it worth the while.

 

[bones]

 

[Bearfax]

It's a clumsy sentence in the article, but I take it to mean that officials expressed concern about happenings at manly, including the push to have tooves sacked.

I tend to agree Shoe1 but its worthy of an apology at least because the implications in the sentence can be interpreted as Toovey having been involved with the gambling issue.

 

[Mitch]

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Generally pretty on the mark with his mail as well.