NYE I said this some months ago. For my trouble I received a few dislikes and I think one troll. Therefore I said very little about this in recent times.
The NRL 'needs' one less team in Sydney and they seemed to have picked Manly for some reason. I don't know why they didn't pick Wests, Easts, Dogs or even Souths. Maybe because they have big corporate backing unlike Manly so maybe they have seen Manly as the weakest link.
My thoughts I expressed earlier were in summary, let Manly drop to her knees financially and with the NRL bailout be then forced to the Central Coast. One less team in Sydney and a lovely newish ground at Gosford.
Then Manly (Central Coast) will be allowed to rebuild and then become a force in the NRL again.
Mind you it wouldn't be all that bad because Manly would cover the Northern Beaches to the lower Central Coast in a very large junior basin. (For my personal thoughts, I'd like it because I live one hour north of Gosford and don't face a two or two and a half hour drive to Brookvale and then try to park which we all know is a problem.)
So if I am right and I hope I am not here is what may happen:
1 Continually give bad press coverage to every little misdemeanour to make a case of dysfunction within the club.
2 Limit the power of the Head Coach (2V) so he cannot buy the players he wants.
3 Allow factions to develop and publicise these faction's differences.
4 Have a mole in the boardroom to leak every damaging bit of dirty laundry.
5 Keep accomplishments to a minimum and under-play them as much as possible.
6 When the new coach comes in give him a bit of breathing room and then pounce.
7 Place people in positions of power who may not have the best interests of the club at heart but may be working to another agenda.
8 Disenfranchise the fan base so when a relocation is imminent there will be very little fan rumble.
9 Continually offer hope of a better stadium and an upgrade that will never happen.
10 Have a wonderful stadium available at another location.
11 Let the club die financially and then be 'forced' to relocate with a whopping NRL grant to re-establish the club at a new location.
12 This then can happen at a time best suited for those involved.
13 Continually promise one thing then fail to deliver and then 're-educate' the population to think the right outcome has been achieved.
To quote Joseph Goebbels:
“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be moulded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
“Think of the press as a great keyboard
on which the government can play.”
“Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...”
Anyway guys just my thoughts and I hope I am wrong. But I remember Peter Peters comments we won't move from Brookvale, voluntarily (paraphrasing).
By the way I am not a fan of any issm be that Communism or Fascism but I quote Goebbels simply as a mastermind of what can be done using propaganda.
