By the way in relation to the why more non Roosters fans aren’t supporting them, I think that’s pretty obvious.
There’s no doubt your “ system “ and network of rich benefactors is second to none, most of us think it’s unfair but we blame Todd Greenberg and the NRL for not cleaning it up more so than the average Easts fan.
Most look at it as just “ buying the Premiership” and the thought of your crew going back to back to back to back purely based on who has the most money upsets a few, me included.
I’d like to see some other system in place to ensure each of the 16 clubs has an almost equal chance of winning each year rather than who has the richest backers.
I’m in favour of a points system but anything I guess is open to rorting.
Well Politis and now Bouris have come out swinging about all these allegations from fans and some boofhead called Tallis. Politis & Bouris have put the club at the forefront inviting anyone to investigate it. Meanwhile Buzz, Kent, Weidler, Webster and now some journo that I don’t recognise have come out explaining how the roosters do it. Now you might not respect these journos but they can’t all be in Politis pocket as some other fans think. Meanwhile other fans continue with the allegations which they can’t prove. As for the players we have atm, only Cronk was a superstar. Tedesco was good but had not reached the quality of player he is now. Keary was discarded by Souths, thanks Russell. Jared only played what 4 games for you guys. Takeiaho only played 1 game for the warriors. BMoz was shafted from the dogs and we picked him up for peanuts cause he was going to be some kind of back up for Hall who hasn’t done much. The rest have all made their NRL debut with us coming through the feeder clubs as juniors... and yes we don’t have that many junior clubs thanks to souffs. The inclusion of Cronk in the team has made Keary, Manu, Mitchell, Toupo and the rest become great players. That would not have happened if we stuck with Jnr Jnr.
The system is the system and I believe we’ve play by the rules and until someone can prove that we are doing something dodgy, then it’s just fans venting because their club can’t do the same. Let’s not forget that Manly are very much hated by other fans because they perceive that they always managed to get the best players, in the past. We’re Manly buying premierships too? I feel that Politis looked at the way Manly were doing things and copied it. It’s the way that successful clubs do things. Even clubs with big juniors nursery still buy players from outside like Penrith, Parra, Cronulla, St George Yet they don’t get the same success.
There are a lot of reasons I don’t hate Manly because I thought they were always a very good and successful club side that I admire even when we went through a period when we could never beat them. I respect their competitive attitude. I also admired that they stuck with the ARL instead of the money hungry clubs that nearly destroyed the comp with super league... Someone else here said that they only appreciated the Roosters for doing the same thing. Another reason I always like Manly was because back in the 80s I was working in Sydney with this guy who was Manly through and through. Anyone living in the Manly area back then might have know Kevin McGaretty. He was a character and I always remembered how much he loved the club. Not sure where he is if he’s still around. He’s probably in his 70s.
Finally, as for Politis, well non Manly fans were always whinging about Arthurson when he was in charge. Did Arthurson do anything illegal? .. Well Nick is our Arthurson and we are happy that he invests a lot of his life for the club.
Ok that was a lot...
