Moderators: Saintsational Administrators, Saintsational Moderators
Ah yes... Round 20 for Attard, forgot that.SaintBot wrote:attard was dropped for a game before he was injured i thinkHSVKing wrote:2 actually.kaos theory wrote:We had only 4 players that played every game this yr.
Blake and Fiora (Attard was the other until he was injured)
and didnt dal santo play every game?
Good post. The bolded point is the most pertinant - I'll be forever grateful to RB for a lot of the good things he did for us.Oh When the Saints wrote:Yes evertonfc, that's a fair call.
I too would like an alternative ticket to be unveiled peacefully, just so we can compare it with the current board.
Even better would be if such a ticket could come to some sort of amicable arrangement with the current board for a smooth transition.
I believe the board has fallen short in several areas over the past 24 months; prior to that it was doing an oustanding job.
If an alternative ticket can point those things out, offer a plan and expertise to get them achieved, and do so without causing great disruption, then I will seriously consider it.
It would help enormously if an alternative had a couple of former players on it like Burkey, Stewie or Spud.
It would ease your mind in terms of knowing that they had the best intentions of the club firmly at the front of their mind.
Just as long as Scott Dennison doesn't get anywhere near the place.
meher baba wrote:Drat, I knew someone else would post this while I was writing my effort. I'll post my comments again here and hope the mods close down the thread I opened.
Sub-text of this totally self-serving article is, methinks, that la Wilson has decided to bail out of the Butterss camp. The end of her article seems almost like a pep talk to the challengers: don't be timid, bring it on!!
Interesting to see Burkey's name mentioned. Clearly Cassius was right in disputing the line run by many on here that Burkey was anti-GT.
Gee she's a piece of work: according to her, the board made the right decision to sack GT but should now go because we didn't make the 8 and because RL is a bad communicator.
Meher Baba says: if you are travelling on a mountain pass and encounter a journo and a deadly snake at the same time, kill the journo first.
geez..you still talk crap.......always have and i suppose always will.........if someone owed you 20 grand or 200 grand i suppose you would just forget it.......and pigs may fly......ffs......barks4eva wrote:as soon as tomorrow there is every chance Thomas will make good his threat to officially sue the club for more money.
IF SO
This slimy svengali snakeoil salesman will be exposed for the fraud and charlatan that he is in relation to his" I love this club" and the so called "he bleeds red, white and black " that you hear repeatedly from the desciples of the gospels of Thomas
Thomas was paid 2.5 MILLION DOLLARS by this football club for his services and even had three all expenses paid overseas holidays disguised as training camps thrown in to the package
Thomas recieved ALL money that he was contractually obligated for
Thomas tried to negotiate $500,000 bonuses into his contract for premierships, probably an easy way to pay back the million dollars he borrowed from Butterss he would have no doubt thought at the time and the board relented by conceding a $500,000 bonus for two premierships not one but inserted a clause that his services could be terminated at any time with no financial payout.
Thomas's wrangling brought about this irregular contractual arrangement to begin with!
The board made a decision to pay Thomas money he was not contractually obligated to recieve as a settlement package IF he went quietly, and in the boards view he broke the conditions of this agreement and so therefore is not entitled to the extra hush money
We also hear of this money Thomas is now claiming, that he never had a holiday and wants $60,000 in holiday pay, if true then this is an outrageous claim
When you consider the sacrifices that so many footballers made to keep this club in existence by taking 22.5 cents in the dollar with the scheme of arrangement payments, Thomas trying to screw more money out of a football club after he has already recieved TWO and a HALF MILLION DOLLARS is galling in the extreme.
Thomas became coach through a farcical process, without any previous AFL coaching experience and was paid $500,000 a year straight up
Thomas should be grateful that he was paid more than what he should have been to begin with even aside from the dubious nature of his intial appointment
Also interesting to not, that back in the eighties when all these players were making huge financial sacrifices to keep the club in existence, that Thomas was not owed one cent and recieved all monies coming to him and then did a runner to North where he thought he could earn more money there
The only bleeding of red, white and black that Thomas does comes off the clubs bottomline
FAIR DINKUM and I do mean FAIR DINKUM
JeffDunne wrote:Rod was just on SEN doing some of his best spinning.
Plenty of clichés, plenty of self justification, plenty of "Rossy's" and plenty of talk about sitting down and having coffee. Not much else.
Seems to think our facilities are not as bad as others, and despite all the chest beating it would appear the club isn't relocating.
Yup - all options are open. I support the STKFC not the president, board, coach or anybody else.Dan Warna wrote: however if Burke is challenging the board, I would be interested in what he had to say and may consider voting for him.
I appreciate what RB has done and think he has been on the whole a positive president.
JeffDunne wrote:I agree saintwill66 and it's why Rod needs to go.
got knocked out against sydney.Mr Magic wrote:I think attard was 'dropped' for a week but didn't play the following week for Scorpions so maybe he wasm't actually 'dropped' but was injured?
He came stratight back into teh team without playing for Scorps IIRC.
JD - you have become this sad pathetic poster that continually blames everything on Rod...And you have the nerve to redicule B4e!One thing Rod said this morning that really is an indictment on his administration was his comments on our injury management.
I really wish someone would ask him why it has taken so long for the club to do something concrete about it, especially when he's using it as justification for results this season.
