This looks like death!!

I listened to Phil Gould rant and rave of Thursday night at the stupidity of the NRL’s treatment of the Melbourne Storm in their recent cheating scandal.

I listened on Sunday as Phil gave his opinion to anyone who would listen (including NRL chief executive David Gallop) about the NRL’s treatment of the cheating Melbourne Storm calling the NRL and implying that David Gallop is “disgraceful”. It was somehow turned from a Melbourne Storm cheated the competition scenario into an NRL forced the Storm to cheat argument. Give me a break Mr. Gould.

Comments on his argument as follows.

Gould 1.

Melbourne fostered this team from 18 and 19 year olds (he listed a bunch) into what it is today. And now that they are successful they are forced to lose players to other clubs and codes because the players / player managers want more much money.

Comment 1.

True to a certain extent. Melbourne had to go out and ‘buy’ these players from many other clubs (Norths Devils in Brisbane for example) to get them to Melbourne in the first place removing these players from the potential pool of talent eligible for other teams.

If any player thinks they are worth more money playing 2^nd Division Rugby in France then let them. The sky didn’t fall in when Sonny Bill left and it won’t when ANY player leaves. Not surprisingly there is ALWAYS a young potential player just begging for an opportunity!!

Gould 2.

The Storm were going to be punished for their success, so that is why they cheated.

Comment 2.

Correct. That is what the Salary cap is for. It evens out the player talent pools to enable equality. If you think that is a bad thing then I am confused. Do you want the NRL to ignore their own rules?

Gould 3.

NRL decision is a disgrace. They have the power to solve the issue but choose not to.

Comment 3

Come to me with solutions not problems. If you have some magical solution to fix this mess than lets hear it. Your solution to remove the salary cap is not a solution to the problem at hand and should not be discussed in the same breath.

Gould 4

Salary Cap removal

Comment 4

Ok. Lets remove the Salary Cap. Next year the Broncos (who are the richest club) will bid for :-

Cameron Smith

Billy Slater

Michael Ennis

Petrol Seventy Cents a Litre

Dave Taylor

Johnathan Thurston

Lote Tuquiri

Benji Marshal

Wally Lewis

Shane Warne

Just to name a few.

We (my team the Broncos and I) will then annihilate the competition for 3 straight seasons. During which time the Cronulla Sharks will go broke trying to purchase a non-amateur playing roster, West Tigers will be in massive trouble and the Newcastle Knights will be a distant memory.

I am not saying this is a bad thing (as a Bronco’s supporter I would whole heartedly vote for this) maybe ‘natural selection’ is the best alternative. But in essence what Gould is suggesting will take the game in a direction similar to that of the English Premiere League’s (EPL). A competition where in the last 18 years their have been only 4 different champions. Only FOUR!! Since the NRL’s 1999 inception there have been 8 different champions.

Gould’s suggestion?

Lets for argument sake say Gould does have an idea. Would the following suffice? If Gould is talking about a drop back to a clubs competition similar to what we had in the 1980’s only on a national scale ie 8 teams from NSW, 8 teams from QLD then that is a different story.

If Gould wants primarily NSW teams he is seriously fooked in the head but if it was something along the following lines then perhaps it is more palatable to true Rugby League fans everywhere.

NSW First Grade (South’s, West’s and Balmain are in second grade)

St George

Roosters

Bulldogs

Parramatta

Canberra

Manly

Central Coast Bears

Parramatta

QLD First Grade (Bronco’s, Titans and Cowboys disbanded or folded into the comp as follows)

Burleigh Bears (Titans)

Wynnum Manly

Logan Magpies

Devils (Broncos)

Mackay Cutters

Northern Pride (Cowboys)

East Brisbane

Ipswich Jets

The bottom two teams at the end of the season are dropped to second grade and the two top teams of second grade are promoted up to first grade. This may get supporters back into the fun of supporting your local teams and leagues clubs which in Queensland, is somewhat lacking.

If your in a street fight they are pretty much useless to you as adrenalin will typically keep any opponent going until the usual street fight is over. But if you are in a situation where you are fighting for an extended period I provide to you the following example.

Jose Aldo V Urijah Faber @ WEC 48 (live on Setanta Sports) over the weekend saw the result as expected but the demonstration of the power of leg kicks was not more evident. I have seen people collapse and not be able to continue as a result of leg kicks before but I have never seen the after affects.

Aldo landed 25 leg kicks out of 26 attempts. Not all of them were absolutely flush and would say only 50% of the landed were completely effective. The fight went all five rounds and Faber continued the whole way along but he was basically on one leg for at least 3 rounds.

If you can’t connect to the head I suggest this is your next best option.

she look sore.

Something that is annoying me at the moment is the seemingly endless calls for massive tax increases on cigarettes, ‘unhealthy’ food (fast food) and alcohol. The reason given for these calls is people who consume these products are a huge burden to the country’s health system. Perhaps this is true to a certain extent but there are whole sections of the community who are getting a free ride in our health system and do not attract any penalties as a result of supply or consumption and this is the part that annoys me.

People involved with illegal drugs.
Please note the ‘illegal’ here. It is illegal to sell them and illegal to take the majority of them, as such they are in effect tax free. So if you are caught doing either you should pay your share of the tax burden that the tax payer currently carries for you free of charge.

Since some group / organisation has been estimating what approximate cost the effects of alcohol, cigarettes and unhealthy food have on our health system I am calling for a Royal Commission (only because it is popular to do so) into the proportional amount in dollars, illegal drugs have on the health system.

Once this total COST is determined we then need to determine the approximate share of people who will need to carry this cost (over a 12 month period for example). They will be

People caught selling illegal drugs
People caught carrying / consuming illegal drugs
People in hospital as a result of taking drugs and drugs being in their system

Once established we divide the total COST by the established 12 month average (of people caught) and levy that equivalent fine to anyone CAUGHT.

Example
Say we establish the total COST estimate is $2.5 Billion and average amount of people CAUGHT in the preceding 12 months was 500,000. Each individual drug fine will be $5,000. I don’t give a crap how long it takes they WILL be forced to pay it even if it takes years. This is on top of any jail time afforded to them.

It is clear illegal drugs are not going away anytime soon so we have 4 choices

Legalize them and sell / tax its consumption – Highly unlikely
Stop drugs – Yeah right
Leave things as they are – 99% certain
Try something – Maybe my idea is dumb but leaving things as they are……?

A DOCTOR accidentally cut off a patient’s right testicle in a routine operation at a British hospital.

He has now returned home to practise medicine at the University of Jordan.

Here is an example where the old adage ‘an eye for an eye’ should be adapted. An agget for an agget. Poor old Left Nut Lenny should be free to remove the nut of the dipshitted niff nuff of death who halved his fun.

A mate of mine named Freckles made international headlines a few hours ago by requesting a rematch from Jake Shields live on CBS television.

Controversy creates cash… you better believe it.

Jake Shields had just dominated MMA legend and all round tough nut Dan Henderson. If you want to start a fight with anyone you may as well pick someone easy like defending Strikeforce light heavyweight champ. Good luck Freckles good luck!

In other news its half time in the Broncos V Sharks match and the Broncs are up 32 nill. Surely we can’t lose from here?

Go Mark Weber this afternoon in China.

UPDATE

Slow motion of Freckles causing trouble.

Mark Weber = A loser!