Titans in trouble!

[King-Eliagh]

Yes the thrashings will have a dramatic effect. Atleast the titans can compete.

[Xman]

Yes the thrashings will have a dramatic effect. Atleast the titans can compete.

Yet they still struggle to get 11k!

[King-Eliagh]

I see GWS are playing at blacktown this weekend...capacity 10k
I laugh but i see it as a sensible move based on the reality that they could not half fill any other stadium. A move based on the shock of those at AFL HQ for not even half filling the sydney historic showdown at anz. Good choice AFL

[Xman]

I see GWS are playing at blacktown this weekend...capacity 10k
I laugh but i see it as a sensible move based on the reality that they could not half fill any other stadium. A move based on the shock of those at AFL HQ for not even half filling the sydney historic showdown at anz. Good choice AFL

Id rather see a team fill out a stadium of 10k than lie about a crowd of 11k where its clearly 20-30% full.

[King-Eliagh]

Prove they lied Xman. Otherwise take yourself to the bs files and give yourself a bs point

[King-Eliagh]

Xman's credibility --- on a par with mathew newton

[eelofwest]

Xman's credibility --- on a par with mathew newton

I see countless claims from Xman go unchecked by the admin on this site, its crazy they let him embarrass them like this.

[King-Eliagh]

Yes its woeful eels. Just woeful.

[Xman]

Prove they lied Xman. Otherwise take yourself to the bs files and give yourself a bs point

Roy masters himself said they exaggerate their crowds by some margin. Almost every poster on LU thinks they lie. They've admitted counting staff and players!

Surely you don't think they're being honest!

[King-Eliagh]

There's no definitive proof here Xman just hearsay. I therefore award you with a BS point.

[Xman]

There's no definitive proof here Xman just hearsay. I therefore award you with a BS point.

* None of the Titans' home crowds announced at 14 games matched the attendances printed in the annual report.

* Thirteen of Gold Coast's 14 games featured inflated attendances.

* The greatest discrepancy was an extra 2209 fans for the Titans' home clash against the Knights last year.

* The Broncos' crowd figures at 11 games were identical to those in the annual report.

* Nine of the Cowboys' 12 games matched crowd figures in the report. Surprisingly, the club twice underquoted crowds.

In the 12-month period, the Titans' total crowds for their 14 home games, according to the annual report, was 237,527.

Yet the club's total attendances based on game-day announcements was 251,324.

The extra 13,979 spectators equates to a beefed-up attendance of nearly 1000 fans, on average, per home game.

On five occasions, the Titans' game-day crowd announcement exceeded the relevant annual report figure by more than 1500 fans.

A Stadiums Queensland spokesman said the organisation would look into the reasons for wildly fluctuating crowd figures at Titans home games.

"The figures are provided by the venue management (Skilled Park) and we've been alerted to the discrepancies in these figures," the spokesman said.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 6100472019

[Beaussie]

There's no definitive proof here Xman just hearsay.

Faced with undisputable evidence from Xman about fudging crowd numbers in the NRL and surprise, surprsie, KE goes into hiding.

[Raiderdave]

There's no definitive proof here Xman just hearsay.

Faced with undisputable evidence from Xman about fudging crowd numbers in the NRL and surprise, surprsie, KE goes into hiding.

Hello Bearsy

out from under the rock eh ?

please proceed to the threads with yr name on em ...... we've got some things to sort out

[Xman]

STOP the rot. If the ARL Commission is serious about putting its administrative stamp on the code, chairman John Grant this week will revoke the Titans' NRL licence and start with a clean slate on the Gold Coast.

The ARLC was trumpeted as the organisation that would fix the ills in rugby league, but it faces a credibility test on its handling of the basketcase that is the Titans.

Revelations the Titans have not paid superannuation to staff and NRL players is an embarrassment to the code at a time when rugby league is ready to prosper after the ARLC brokered a $1.025 billion TV rights deal.

How many black eyes must the Titans give rugby league before the ARLC shows the gumption to shut the club down and lead the code into a bold new era with a rebranded, robust Gold Coast team?

Under the code's beefed-up governance, the ARLC has the power to pull the Titans licence. The NRL's competition participation document clearly spells out strict criteria clubs must meet to qualify for the big league.

Surely by not meeting compulsory super payments on behalf of NRL players the Titans have given Grant grounds to pull the trigger.

Grant can start with jettisoning majority owner Michael Searle, who racked up $25 million in debts and continues to thumb his nose at the very commission he helped create.

On Thursday, Searle flew to the US for a holiday. It is his second trip in 21 days. While hard-working Titans staff and players were in doubt about their super, Searle was sunning himself in Cuba and the Cayman Islands.

While he remains, the Titans will have a stench that cannot be fumigated.

If I had a dollar for every time the commission has said it is "monitoring the Titans closely", I could fund my own trip to the Cayman Islands.

It is time for the ARLC to stop monitoring and dithering and start acting.

Rugby league needs a team on the Gold Coast ... but not the one in its current form.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/a ... 6474970586

Shocking stuff.

[piesman2011]

STOP the rot. If the ARL Commission is serious about putting its administrative stamp on the code, chairman John Grant this week will revoke the Titans' NRL licence and start with a clean slate on the Gold Coast.

The ARLC was trumpeted as the organisation that would fix the ills in rugby league, but it faces a credibility test on its handling of the basketcase that is the Titans.

Revelations the Titans have not paid superannuation to staff and NRL players is an embarrassment to the code at a time when rugby league is ready to prosper after the ARLC brokered a $1.025 billion TV rights deal.

How many black eyes must the Titans give rugby league before the ARLC shows the gumption to shut the club down and lead the code into a bold new era with a rebranded, robust Gold Coast team?

Under the code's beefed-up governance, the ARLC has the power to pull the Titans licence. The NRL's competition participation document clearly spells out strict criteria clubs must meet to qualify for the big league.

Surely by not meeting compulsory super payments on behalf of NRL players the Titans have given Grant grounds to pull the trigger.

Grant can start with jettisoning majority owner Michael Searle, who racked up $25 million in debts and continues to thumb his nose at the very commission he helped create.

On Thursday, Searle flew to the US for a holiday. It is his second trip in 21 days. While hard-working Titans staff and players were in doubt about their super, Searle was sunning himself in Cuba and the Cayman Islands.

While he remains, the Titans will have a stench that cannot be fumigated.

If I had a dollar for every time the commission has said it is "monitoring the Titans closely", I could fund my own trip to the Cayman Islands.

It is time for the ARLC to stop monitoring and dithering and start acting.

Rugby league needs a team on the Gold Coast ... but not the one in its current form.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/a ... 6474970586

Shocking stuff.

Thank god the AFL got rid of private ownership for every good private owner there is a bad one. At least with a members appointed board you can sack them if they do a bad job.