Re: Titans in trouble!
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:37 pm
Yes the thrashings will have a dramatic effect. Atleast the titans can compete.
Yet they still struggle to get 11k!King-Eliagh wrote:Yes the thrashings will have a dramatic effect. Atleast the titans can compete.
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 wrote: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
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 wrote:Xman's credibility --- on a par with mathew newton
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!King-Eliagh wrote:Prove they lied Xman. Otherwise take yourself to the bs files and give yourself a bs point
* None of the Titans' home crowds announced at 14 games matched the attendances printed in the annual report.King-Eliagh wrote:There's no definitive proof here Xman just hearsay. I therefore award you with a BS point.
Faced with undisputable evidence from Xman about fudging crowd numbers in the NRL and surprise, surprsie, KE goes into hiding.King-Eliagh wrote:There's no definitive proof here Xman just hearsay.
Hello BearsyBeaussie wrote:Faced with undisputable evidence from Xman about fudging crowd numbers in the NRL and surprise, surprsie, KE goes into hiding.King-Eliagh wrote:There's no definitive proof here Xman just hearsay.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/a ... 6474970586STOP 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.
Xman wrote:http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/a ... 6474970586STOP 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.
Shocking stuff.