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Post-Game Discussion Roosters v Manly [Round 2, 2022]
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SCG 18 Mar 2022 20:05 80th minute |
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The Admiral
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Yay!Three positives from last night's game:
1. No injuries.
2. We won the second half.
3. We doubled the amount of tries (2) that we scored the week before (1).
No-one expected us to win the first 2 but... we were expected to lose by about 8 tries to 4, not 10 tries to 3.
We were supposed to have caught up with the top sides over the off-season, or at least be within striking distance. But alas we aren't there yet, as graphically shown by 2 away games
Hence the calm, measured calls to sack the players and coach and the insightful assessment of the Manly squad as a collection of cats and incompetents. And the predictions that we are now bottom 4, or worse.
None of which is surprising for anyone who's been around here for long.
Funny, I have rarely (if ever) felt embarrassed by a Manly team, but embarrassed by fans' carry on? That's another matter
We were not at full strength and once we are , we will see a very different team especially our attack .
We are not defending that bad but when we have the ball ,we have nothing in variety to offer other than hit up for 5 and kick the ball anywhere .Des should have his team worked out by the time Schuster and Aloiai are back .
I will put Schuster there for the whole season and find out at the end if he can lead us to the GF .We need to try out new plays and someone that the opposition are hesitant when he gets the football because at the moment they're loving seeing Evans and Foran there .( They just need to cover Tom )
Brookie Bob
"I come back to you now at the turn of the tide"
It's difficult for other teams to match the Roosters when this is how they play off the field:
www.afr.com
"In the year 2020, Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Club (AKA the Sydney Roosters) gratefully accepted pandemic support from the Australian government in the form of its much-maligned JobKeeper wage subsidy. The Chooks’ consolidated revenue fell 20 per cent, they banked $5.5 million of JobKeeper in the first seven months of the scheme and club earnings increased to $11.8 million, up 66 per cent on 2019.
Come Sydney’s interminable lockdown of 2021, JobKeeper had been discontinued – its entrails being pored over by insolent newspaper columns like this one. For that almost Narnian winter, there was JobSaver, co-funded by the Commonwealth and NSW governments – though don’t ask Senator Andrew Bragg to explain it.
The Roosters’ 2021 annual report is, as yet, unpublished, but according to the minutes of a recent meeting of the club’s board of directors – leaked to us – “JobSaver payments to the value of $1.35 million have been received, albeit the club has only confirmed and met the eligibility criteria for $0.75 million”.
“Guidance in respect of the return of ‘overpayments’ is vague, albeit Service NSW has now opened up a phone number to call to arrange the return of overpayments.”
Implicit here is the narrating club official’s deep reticence to dial said phone number.
“We await more detail on how these ‘overpayments’ will be treated and what requirements to repay will be introduced. No return of ‘overpayments’ will be actioned until this is clearly required.”
Pursuing corporate welfare recipients as grudging as these, what chance does Service NSW stand?
Among the Roosters’ stated values, of course, is “responsibility”, whereby “we are accountable for our actions and results, built upon making courageous and considered decisions”, and “honesty”, purporting that “we are open, authentic and transparent, and we inspire trust by saying what we mean.”
Between themselves, the club’s leadership is certainly saying what they mean about eluding the clawback of JobSaver over-payments. But there’s nothing like an unauthorised leak to bring about a courageous and considered decision – and we’re not even talking about Dylan Napa‘s sex tapes.
Is it any wonder Easts is such a glutton for government cheques with no return address? The club’s chairman (of 29 years) is Rich Lister Nick Politis, who is also the largest shareholder of Eagers Automotive.
The ASX-listed car yard operator mainlined $129 million of JobKeeper in calendar 2020 and so doubled its pre-tax profit to $209 million from $100 million in 2019. The company declined to repay a cent of the wage subsidy.
It sounds far-fetched, but Treasurer Josh Frydenberg gave $1.2 billion of JobKeeper just to 720 Australian car yards, while they enjoyed the greatest trading conditions since the invention of the petrol combustion engine.
Yes, $1.2 billion; no, that is not a typo.
The top 50 car yards got $551 million of JobKeeper between them, with Eagers Automotive the runaway Dally M medallist. This was heedless waste on a grotesque scale.
By stark comparison, the Morrison government has (so far) given $860 million in disaster payments to 770,000 flood victims in New South Wales and Queensland. That’s the same amount of JobKeeper trousered by 188 car yards.
And just imagine how many new cars they’ll now sell in the flood zones.
It was highly amusing to see Finance Minister Simon Birmingham’s doleful warning this week, ahead of the federal budget, that “it’s not like there’s lots of extra cash that can be splashed around”. And why would that be?"
Sydney Roosters mull JobSaver repayments
Is it any wonder Easts is such a glutton for government cheques with no return address?
"In the year 2020, Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Club (AKA the Sydney Roosters) gratefully accepted pandemic support from the Australian government in the form of its much-maligned JobKeeper wage subsidy. The Chooks’ consolidated revenue fell 20 per cent, they banked $5.5 million of JobKeeper in the first seven months of the scheme and club earnings increased to $11.8 million, up 66 per cent on 2019.
Come Sydney’s interminable lockdown of 2021, JobKeeper had been discontinued – its entrails being pored over by insolent newspaper columns like this one. For that almost Narnian winter, there was JobSaver, co-funded by the Commonwealth and NSW governments – though don’t ask Senator Andrew Bragg to explain it.
The Roosters’ 2021 annual report is, as yet, unpublished, but according to the minutes of a recent meeting of the club’s board of directors – leaked to us – “JobSaver payments to the value of $1.35 million have been received, albeit the club has only confirmed and met the eligibility criteria for $0.75 million”.
“Guidance in respect of the return of ‘overpayments’ is vague, albeit Service NSW has now opened up a phone number to call to arrange the return of overpayments.”
Implicit here is the narrating club official’s deep reticence to dial said phone number.
“We await more detail on how these ‘overpayments’ will be treated and what requirements to repay will be introduced. No return of ‘overpayments’ will be actioned until this is clearly required.”
Pursuing corporate welfare recipients as grudging as these, what chance does Service NSW stand?
Among the Roosters’ stated values, of course, is “responsibility”, whereby “we are accountable for our actions and results, built upon making courageous and considered decisions”, and “honesty”, purporting that “we are open, authentic and transparent, and we inspire trust by saying what we mean.”
Between themselves, the club’s leadership is certainly saying what they mean about eluding the clawback of JobSaver over-payments. But there’s nothing like an unauthorised leak to bring about a courageous and considered decision – and we’re not even talking about Dylan Napa‘s sex tapes.
Is it any wonder Easts is such a glutton for government cheques with no return address? The club’s chairman (of 29 years) is Rich Lister Nick Politis, who is also the largest shareholder of Eagers Automotive.
The ASX-listed car yard operator mainlined $129 million of JobKeeper in calendar 2020 and so doubled its pre-tax profit to $209 million from $100 million in 2019. The company declined to repay a cent of the wage subsidy.
It sounds far-fetched, but Treasurer Josh Frydenberg gave $1.2 billion of JobKeeper just to 720 Australian car yards, while they enjoyed the greatest trading conditions since the invention of the petrol combustion engine.
Yes, $1.2 billion; no, that is not a typo.
The top 50 car yards got $551 million of JobKeeper between them, with Eagers Automotive the runaway Dally M medallist. This was heedless waste on a grotesque scale.
By stark comparison, the Morrison government has (so far) given $860 million in disaster payments to 770,000 flood victims in New South Wales and Queensland. That’s the same amount of JobKeeper trousered by 188 car yards.
And just imagine how many new cars they’ll now sell in the flood zones.
It was highly amusing to see Finance Minister Simon Birmingham’s doleful warning this week, ahead of the federal budget, that “it’s not like there’s lots of extra cash that can be splashed around”. And why would that be?"
Truly disgusting.t's difficult for other teams to match the Roosters when this is how they play off the field:
Sydney Roosters mull JobSaver repayments
Is it any wonder Easts is such a glutton for government cheques with no return address?
| Team | P | W | L | PD | Pts |
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7 | 6 | 1 | 99 | 14 |
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7 | 6 | 1 | 54 | 14 |
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7 | 5 | 2 | 36 | 12 |
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8 | 5 | 2 | 39 | 11 |
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8 | 5 | 3 | 64 | 10 |
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7 | 4 | 3 | 49 | 10 |
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8 | 4 | 4 | 73 | 8 |
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7 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 8 |
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8 | 4 | 4 | -14 | 8 |
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8 | 4 | 4 | -16 | 8 |
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8 | 4 | 4 | -60 | 8 |
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8 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 7 |
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8 | 3 | 5 | -25 | 6 |
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7 | 2 | 5 | -55 | 6 |
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8 | 3 | 5 | -55 | 6 |
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7 | 1 | 6 | -87 | 4 |
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7 | 1 | 6 | -136 | 4 |
