NRL General Recruitment and Retention

This is brave, powerful stuff from Gus Gould here. For too long, idiotic media talking heads like Gus Gould have engaged in unethical practices which destabilise clubs and negatively impact players. Good on Gus Gould for calling it out!
 
It’s the journos job to provide content. Gus is calling it out on the media making claims on speculation not fact. That’s the imbalance. Clubs, coaches, players, should be obligated to provide information to the fans, and the journos are the ones to present that. But the media wants the scoop, so there lies the problem of false or exaggerated information.
 
Gus does plenty of speculation of his own. I know because he prefaces a lot of his comments with “now, this is all just speculation”. Which is exactly what the muppets on 360 etc do. He is absolutely just as much a part of the problem as any of them. That he gets to have it both ways & this is likely the strongest pushback he’ll ever face, is ridiculous.
 
That puts them in a really weird spot. Sexton should absolutely be their 7 going forward. They have a lot of cap tied up in Brimson & Campbell, with Kini being their best fullback prospect… but will they be able to re-sign him? Remain convinced he’ll be the most sought after player come November 1. Then it’s between Campbell & Brimson for five-eighth. One of them will have to play centre or 14 and that’s a lot of borderline dead money on the cap. That’s before you get to their very expensive forward pack & backline which, if you look at cumulative indicators for the team as a whole (metres gained vs conceded, etc) is not terribly good.

Always in the back of my mind that if we were going to do a player swap with any club to fill one of our positions of need, they make a lot of sense.
 
Seano said:
"Make players stick to the contracts they signed. Makes clubs do the same."
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Kind of funny seeing Foxsports employees telling players to stick to the contracts they signed when their overlords who tried to (and miserably failed) to take over the NRL openly encouraged and told players to break contracts many moons ago...
frankLauda said:
It’s the journos job to provide content. Gus is calling it out on the media making claims on speculation not fact. That’s the imbalance. Clubs, coaches, players, should be obligated to provide information to the fans, and the journos are the ones to present that. But the media wants the scoop, so there lies the problem of false or exaggerated information.
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Its always funny how much guys like Chammas and Weidler have gotten wrong on the Galvin stuff.
Weidler even got duped by a guy on twitter reaching out to Moses claiming that he had info that the Tigers playing group was toxic and divided and got caught out after telling him who his source was (after saying he couldn't reveal it)

Can see why Gus gets guarded at times with who he can trust, when you get comments like they're not interested in bringing him in when he knows Galvin's team is not allowed to negotiate with anyone or hadn't come close to being released at the time.

But then again the Bulldogs used to be one of those pauper teams who Isaac Moses was trying to get his guys away from (thanks for Klemmer)
 
Seano said:
This is surreal...


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So was this Media Gus or Club CEO Gus?
It’s confusing. “I don’t know any other CEO that has to sit on a panel and answer questions” - exactly right, but you don’t have to at all.

I think both sides of this discussion made some good points. Gus is right, the media can basically make up anything and it’s the clubs that have to mop up and put players at ease/defuse manufactured situations.

I remember listening to Gus’ pod probably 12-24 months ago (I was doing a lot of driving) and remember he loved Galvin. I don’t think it’s a coincidence he has ended up there. I’m not naive enough to think that conversations don’t happen behind closed doors. I think the least of the issues is Gus claiming “he’s not interested” only to become the leading contender to sign him. Could not care less that he “misled”. I’m more interested in the commentary over the years of how great a talent he is, how he needs a new club to thrive. Basically penning a public letter to Galvin to tell him how much he wants him.

The whole situation is cleverly orchestrated from Team Galvin, and it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a number of clubs that have put a cross through him to never sign him and his baggage and drama from the last 2 years. I think the Tigers did well and they were let down by their emotional players taking to social media and allegedly bullying Galvin because it’s that looming court battle that has given Team Galvin the upper hand in negotiations and his ticket out of there.

Anastasia (autocorrect) addressed the point of his role on 360 last night and Crawley said Braith never uses it to his advantage…LOL. He made the point that most personalities in the media have allegiances to clubs.
 
Gus is the biggest manipulator and got called out hard by Chammas......you could see Gould was lying and trying to cover everything up.

Plain and simple, he shouldn't be allowed to hold a job in the media and at a club.....he has been creaming himself over Galvin publicly for so long, courting him.
 
Anyone who’s paying attention knows what it means when someone defends themselves with “find a specific quote where I’ve said this very specific thing, if you don’t prove I’ve said this very specific thing you have nothing on me” and then moves on to bullying tactics (overtalking, “mind your words son”), but unfortunately such tactics do work on plenty of people. That’s why Trump is President.

Ultimately though the issue is the laughable way the game as a whole is administered. JJ Reddick had to give up all his media interests including his podcast where he drinks wine with LeBron James and talks about basketball strategy to become Lakers head coach. Anything where there’s even the perception of a conflict of interest is a total non-starter. We have a club’s director of football publicly courting players, undermining other clubs & also basically acting as a shadow administrator of the game as a whole with the degree to which he’s in PVL’s ear. No repercussions whatsoever.
 
It’s absolutely the lax way the sport as a whole is administered that is to blame. Gus is annoying, but he’s employed to create content which gets eyes on Channel 9 & to pursue the interests of Canterbury Bankstown Rugby League Football Club, and he’s doing both to the best of his ability. He shouldn’t be allowed to, but he is, so why wouldn’t he?

Still very satisfying to see someone actually stand up to him. Others quake in their boots when he goes on the offensive. It’s more or less only Gal who really pushes back against **** he says usually, and that’s only over trivial stuff.
 
I’m actually kind of happy the Dogs signed Galvin mind, because I’m pretty convinced it’s a mistake. There’s too much smoke around his off field ****, his entitlement, his demands that everything be his way and he’s top dog ant the club, and he has an overbearing dad who causes trouble.

I’ve come to the conclusion that you’re better off without those characters & you can’t win with them. No matter how talented they are.
 
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