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I hope you're right. All the same, I still think it shouldn't have taken over a month after the initial claim was brought forth for all this to get sorted. As it stands the circus still has some way to go, with the t-shirt argument still to be investigated. I know it's not exactly the same...

Just btw - this is how an obscene message should be handled and how long it should take: http://www.theroar.com.au/2014/10/27/breaking-paul-gallen-fined-50000-ineligible-kangaroos-selection/ It took the NRL less than a week. Open, shut, now piss off Gallen. Meanwhile, we've managed to get to...

All Wallabies games are FTA aren't they?

Eagles in a boil-over. You head it here first.

Well, when all is said and done one indicator for how we're going is that the Kangaroos v Kiwis game both got a bigger crowd and had better ratings than the Bledisloe Cup match at the same venue and same time-slot exactly one week earlier. The bledisloe scored pretty well exactly 1 million...

Look boys, I'll cop that. Won't bring it up again I promise. I'm venting the spleen a little here today because I'm sick of this whole saga dragging the name of the game through mud and frankly I'm a little pissed that Patston just didn't hang him out to dry on June. That may be unfair, but...

That's fair enough. I just get the sense here that people are being disingenuous about certain issues - like that suit - because of the surrounding context and the generally fervent anti-media sentiment here.

All granted. Beale should be gone, and he should have been gone in June. What's pissed me off about this is that it has been dragged on for months and dragged the game down with it. A story like this should have been open and shut, and the fact that it wasn't is the fault of Patston and...

Not strictly, but you'd be disingenuous if you were to tell me that you don't believe many civil cases are brought purely to force a settlement (hence the massive sums sought). Again, I just think that if you blokes had read that someone tried to sue for half a mill over that you'd have rolled...

Again, it goes to character. She sought over half a million dollars in damages because a spider bit her. As I said, you can lie to yourselves all you like, but you all know how you'd have reacted if you read that in isolation of this. Now fellas, I don't particularly care for Beale and I'd be...

With respect your honour, this case goes to the character of the accuser and should be admitted to the court.

If you resolve the issue and then bring it up over something completely unrelated, then bring it up over something unrelated, it's effectively blackmail. Seriously, I know people are tip-toeing around this because there's a lot of people reducing this issue to "if you talk about anything but...

Bingo. Seems she has a bit of experience on this via Maroochydore. At the end of the day she confronted and forgave Beale over this in June. Frankly, that should have been the end of it.

Yes, that is accurate. Not sure what that has to do with anything.

I really love Japan, but I just don't see this working... The Japanese Top League is hurting the game over there in a lot of ways (being organised purely on a company basis doesn't help build appeal) and it hasn't grown hardly at all - if at all - for about 20 years.

Got a source for that? ;)

For someone who is awfully up tight about sources and names, that's a bit of a fucking speculative long bow mate. You've basically just invented a scenario to suit your bias of the media being pro-NSW pricks out to get Patston and McKenzie. Possible? Sure. But it's equally possible that the...

That about sums it all up actually.

Wilson made some fairly substantial claims in her piece - some of which could land her in hot water if she's lying. Are you suggesting she's lying? As for "defeatism" around news - it's not defeatism, it's a recognition of the reality of the industry. Through 140 pages of people hating on the...

Thank you Bill Pulver. But can I ask you something? Really? It's the press's handling you're disappointed in? My god mate, were you born yesterday? The press handled this the way they handle EVERY scandal. It's therefore the job of administrators to handle the fall-out so that the press don't...