How many points will parra lose

Your Name wrote:Radradra to do French rara

dasherhalo wrote:You'd have to think that getting cap compliant in under 10 days is going to be tough without losing a big name on big dollars?

"the recordings were made by the CEO's Executive Assistant at the meetings concerned to assist her with compiling the minutes. She then transferred the audio to files on her PC which were found by the NRL Integrity Unit during their investigation"

Dip wrote:I guess you shouldn't automatically hire the secretary with the biggest funbags.

Dip wrote:Tough crowd. Apologies if I've offended anyone with my blatant (1980's)stereotyping.

Dip wrote:Tough crowd. Apologies if I've offended anyone with my blatant (1980's)stereotyping.

Dip wrote:

That you can't re run the finals series is why you can't award it to the losing finalist. If Melbourne wasn't there you don't know who would have won because they were cheating the whole way through. In all likelihood it would have been the Broncos. I mean we beat teams 1 & 3 before losing to the cheating Storm. Parramatta didn't even have to leave their home state despite playing two interstate teams that finished higher than them on the ladder.

B/L wrote:Corey Norman to the Panthers is doing the rounds.

Personally I cant see it, but they will basically be no chance of meeting his asking price next year so may as well let him go now.

Ice wrote:

we will be every chance of meeting his asking price if we don't sign all the players that are off contract and Watmoughs $750k is off the books next year.  We must re-sign him.  I'll be filthy if we lose him to Panthers or anyone else.

Ice wrote:

I dont think Parra should be awarded the Premiership anyway to be honest.

But make no mistake, no team has had a tougher run to the Grand Final than Parra that year and no team ever will again.  We played and beat team 1 away a week after they had beat us by 30, you played and beat them at home a week after they had been totally demoralized and run over by the Hayne Train. In week 1 you guys had to go ALL the way to the Gold Coast in week 1 to beat team 3, the Gold Coast!!!  Seriously, its easier to get to the Goldie for Brisbane than it is for Parra to get into Moore Park. We then played and Beat team 2 away and you had 30 put on you by Melbourne, who beat us by 7 in the GF.

Sooo, you played two games in your home state, the first away and the second at home both against teams that finished higher than you and then got walloped by the Storm away.

We played those same two teams, both AWAY, and then still had to go through team 2 AWAY and the just fell to the  Storm. Please tell me again how your run was tougher than ours???.

Dip wrote:

I didn't say ours was tougher than yours, only that we would have beaten Parra in the final. In fact I reckon both teams got draws much softer than the numbers suggest just be luck as much as anything else. Gold Coast played above themselves that year and was probably always going out in straight sets. As a Bronco playing on the road, the Gold Coast is a great option. Before the format was changed, we somehow got to play the number 1 team on our home ground, and the first time we got what we deserved we played the cheaters at their home ground 2000km away.

Parra also got a blessed draw. Got to play the perennial chokers on a Sunday arvo, then played the previously mentioned Titans at home, before playing the Dogs at a ground they play some home games at when like the Titans the Dogs were over-achievers that year on the back of an aging halfback, who in the prelim final came back early from a broken jaw and wasn't the same player in the final. They then got to play the GF on that some occassional home ground.

Neither team had to play the strongest legal team of their era because they were knocked out from 4th or 5th by the cheaters, something that had never happened under the system.

Good luck to them though. Neither team made the draw and they could only play the team in front of them on the day, and Parra did that great and put up a great effort in the GF. I agree with you that the correct outcome was "no premiership awarded" appearing on the record books.

Sometimes when I lie awake in bed I like to think that since we were defending premiers heading into the 2007 finals, and then got knocked out by the cheaters in 2007, 2008 & 2009, that morally, we probably would have won all of those premierships. Instead I just have to find a way to fall asleep with our premiership on average every 5 years ratio.

Honeysett wrote:

Can I have the lotto numbers for next week please? Nostradamus.

Dip wrote:

I didn't say ours was tougher than yours, only that we would have beaten Parra in the final. In fact I reckon both teams got draws much softer than the numbers suggest just be luck as much as anything else. Gold Coast played above themselves that year and was probably always going out in straight sets. As a Bronco playing on the road, the Gold Coast is a great option. Before the format was changed, we somehow got to play the number 1 team on our home ground, and the first time we got what we deserved we played the cheaters at their home ground 2000km away.

Parra also got a blessed draw. Got to play the perennial chokers on a Sunday arvo, then played the previously mentioned Titans at home, before playing the Dogs at a ground they play some home games at when like the Titans the Dogs were over-achievers that year on the back of an aging halfback, who in the prelim final came back early from a broken jaw and wasn't the same player in the final. They then got to play the GF on that some occassional home ground.

Neither team had to play the strongest legal team of their era because they were knocked out from 4th or 5th by the cheaters, something that had never happened under the system.

Good luck to them though. Neither team made the draw and they could only play the team in front of them on the day, and Parra did that great and put up a great effort in the GF. I agree with you that the correct outcome was "no premiership awarded" appearing on the record books.

Sometimes when I lie awake in bed I like to think that since we were defending premiers heading into the 2007 finals, and then got knocked out by the cheaters in 2007, 2008 & 2009, that morally, we probably would have won all of those premierships. Instead I just have to find a way to fall asleep with our premiership on average every 5 years ratio.

Dip wrote:

Yeah, granted I could be wrong. I typically am about 3/8 of the time in my tips, anyway. I'm mainly basing that on what team having a 20 year history of winning big matches, and the other having a 20 year history of losing big matches.