Your worst post of all time, hail the HoffQuote:
Originally Posted by Couscous
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Your worst post of all time, hail the HoffQuote:
Originally Posted by Couscous
Yeah bag the bloke all you want but he survived the "Hoff off" chants at the same time as Brodie Mooy was copping it.
He came on as a sub for Troy Hearfield in his debut.
Will never be on the Jets Mt Rushmore but deserves respect.
Also, lol at the Jets for putting a photo of him in his Heart kit in their tribute. That's some Benny O'Neil level trolling right there.
Well played, social media intern.
Cheers Hoff.
cheers,
plague.
One of the great Hoff moments was when he was with Heart....
Toe to toe with Berisha...
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HOFF!
"Visualize an eroded escarpment with four intricate face carvings, representing iconic figures from the Newcastle Jets A-League team: Gary Van Egmond, Joel Griffiths, Nick Carle, and Ljubo Milicevic."Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
https://i.ibb.co/kQ7Tzwz/gencraft-im...77448863-1.png
These generative AI models can't even count to four, let alone capture GVE in a meaningful way.
Forum, who are your three other Rushmore faces?
Is that the famous wankers wall?
Congratulations to the Central Coast Mariners, champions of Asia minor.
Robbie Slater leaked this a few weeks ago and was panned for doing so. FC32 knew this was on the cards as well and called it out.
Makes Lowy look like an angel. APL are a cancerQuote:
Originally Posted by My2BobsWorth
Man, you just can't see how things can get any worse, and then something like this comes along.
YepQuote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
The game and more importantly the League itself is already hemorrhaging funds and this type of a scandal will undoubtedly scare away any potential corporate money and those already committed will certainly be reevaluating there involvement in the game and use this situation as leverage to terminate existing financial agreements.
This could really impact club land as a whole, You may very well get individual club sponsors who wish they had there time all over again and use this to walk away from sponsorship agreements they have in place for next season.
Man, this frigging League! Unreal!
Hard to say no to the Mexican crime gangs
Watch channel 10 use this as a get out clause
Maybe it was Channel 10 organising the bets in order to get some of their investment back.Quote:
Originally Posted by ForeverRed
I only just realised tonight that the Mariners didn't win the actual Champions League, but some other tin cup on offer....ffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Couscous
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ar...-extra-funding
The FA should take this article, walk straight up to every federal parliamentarian and say we want a substantially bigger deal for all the soft diplomacy we can do in the Pacific, Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East.
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Originally Posted by belchardo
fmd. That plus a lazy 2mill on top.Quote:
the NRL reported distributions to clubs of $98.2m (8 mill each) in 2023 in addition to the payments to cover player salaries, a 33% increase on the previous year.
edit-cheers 380
98.2 across all NRL clubs not each.
Honestly, it’s pretty incredible what the administration of thugby league can do.
Nobody cares when yet another player is charged with allegedly assaulting his wife, because ITS MAGIC ROUND BABY where each clubs fans go for a drunken bender in Brisbane and brawl at games and on the streets, but nobody knows cause most news agencies have a finger in the pie somewhere.
In all seriousness, we need an admin with some balls that can get us a good deal that can go a long way to covering basic travel and salaries. Leaving clubs to determine how much they fork out for additional staff, facilities and marquee style players.
We need to start again with a product that people actually want to watch before we start asking for money to fix our issues. We are too busy trying to become the NRL that we are ruining the actual game itself here to do so.
We need to focus on selling out stadiums and making our money that way, then when there is a league full of teams with packed stadiums each week, great atmosphere, etc, people will want to come and check it out themselves.
Sitting in McDonald Jones stadium with a bunch of families hearing a pin drop for 90 mins isn't what football should be. 4000 people singing and screaming for 90 mins in some cramped, pain in the arse to get into and out of, stadium sounds like a lot more fun.
Then, we can actually start to market ourselves as a real league to the rest of the world and make our money from football fans in general instead of trying to convert NRL families over like we do now.
NRL wishes it was a Seppo sport, we need to try and become a Euro one instead. Seppo owners bribe city officials to build them a new stadium, Euro clubs get the president of the entire nation to beg their star player to stay, lol. Way cooler.
There was a time when we had an actual heavy hitter that could open doors and command the ear of the people in power but you all hated him and ran him out of the game.
You 'true fanz' all got what you wanted.
Thugby League, what are you 11? Code Wars are ****ing boring and childlike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
The whole notion that nobody cares about DV issues is simply untrue. There has been widespread outrage and condemnation of both DV issues in the last 7 days from NRL supporters and there always is condemnation when these issues arise. Stop making up fake scenarios to supplement your own agenda
The APL will never receive a single government cent whilst they are a For Profit operation. The first thing the Government will ask when the APL ask for money is "how will it be spent?". After seeing the current track record of the APL, it will not be spent wisely at all so why would the Government trust them? What would they get in return? There is simply not enough demand for A-Liga Football at the moment.
I mean, you can literally Google NRL and there's nothing about the DV case, or the parent who's dad is facing execution in the Philippines, or the pundit who got charged with assault, it's all about a coach getting sacked and a new coach elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killa
Google A League and all you get is the Macarthur story.
The.NRL was smart enough to sell a share in the league to the media and now the media works to help it's own investment by wiping all these stories under the rug as quickly as possible and pushing positive stories to keep people from really looking into how much of a problem that code actually has. It was a brilliant move TBH.
I think the Sydney Herald is the most read newspaper in the country.
Just check the sports section: 80% is NRL, all year round.
Football coverage is: occasional articles on Matildas, Socceroos or Premier League (mostly Ange). A-League is only mentioned with regard to ground invasions, betting scandals, player misconduct etc.
Not a single article on A-league games.
Can't be a coincidence...
Googled A-League and I got the following articlesQuote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
Mariners 1 win away from Treble
Article about Ange
Kai Trewin signing for Melb City
A-League on brink of Financial Disaster
Macarthur story buried towards the bottom (it quite rightly deserves national attention considering its links to Organised Crime)
Googled NRL and got
Taylan May stood down, to face court over charges
Roosters responding to viral video
Sad Text over coaches sacking
Expansion news
Yeah get it right, it?s drugby leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by Killa
Code Wars suck. Anybody who participates in them does too.
Government won’t give money to Z-league organisation anyway.
A) because they know APL will waste it
B) as Killa said, they are a For Profit organisation
There’s not enough interest in the league to be handing out big sums of money
The true fanz have no interest in GVE. And he's not going to come back. Hopefully we strike lucky again in a few years or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
I'm looking at the official jets news site: https://newcastlejetsfc.com.au/news/
Am I missing seeing any sort of official anouncement / confirmation of the new ownership?
Seems like something a club should have an official statment or press release about...
Is it not done?
In Shane We Trust?....Quote:
Originally Posted by Guerny
If you are waiting for the Executive Chairman to confer with members n supporters on the current status of the club you are well and truly delirious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guerny
If there is one thing we know about the clubs EC is he is consistent. Perhaps he has departed hence no updates from anybody in a position to do so.
Stamatelopoulos in the Socceroos squad. Good to know we aren't too much of a drain on someone's career prospects, if he can get himself a run in these games and looks good he might be fighting for an overseas contract next season. Here's hoping we can get a nice little fee for him and put that towards an academy under the new owners, if and when they finally show up and take over.
wasn't the last info that it was with the FA for their approval, and that may take 3 weeks? I think that was at least a week ago, if not two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guerny
Yep real pleased for the bloke, works hard and good with his feet or head and is a really decent passer. He's a bit unique in he can get in behind defences or play back to goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
https://www.ftbl.com.au/news/a-leagu...ial-axe-608394
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Fears of the big squeeze are understood to be one reason the takeover of the Newcastle Jets by a group of Melbourne and Sydney-based business identities has yet to be ratified, the skittish investors seeking clarification on the how much the club will receive in disbursements before signing off on the deal.
You know, I can't help feeling like I've heard this before...
Anybody know any white Knights looking for a noble cause? The APL could use one.
FA needs to step in now and take back control before there it is too lateQuote:
Originally Posted by belchardo