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He meant to say steal 4 of Souths promising Jnrs.


2010 Souths get Taylor & Burgess
2011 Souths get Inglis
2012 Souths get Bennett & Anasta
2013 Souths get SBW

atsch Salary Cap anyone

 

We wont have Anasta. :nono

People just want to don on the great red and greens teke, and thats all there is too it. :yep

On another note, I'm hearing noises that you ****s are after the Coal train. You heard anything about that?

 

Souths try to copy Roosters old way of trying to buy a premiership and let go of local talent, and you try to make a joke about our juniors?atsch

To elaborate, i would rather keep Boyd Cordner, Tom Symonds, Anthony Cherrington and Joseph Leilua then Braith Anasta.

 

Copy the Roosters?
Souths have won 20 premierships. Far more than any other team in the comp. We dont need to follow the Roosters blueprint to achieve success.

We also have more juniors in our current side than any other NRL team does in the comp. :deal

 

Thats not the point Rooster4life lol

 

We've done far less buying in the last few years than most other clubs, including your club.

 

One signing.
And Rusty is just trying to drum up interest. Only a fool wouldnt be able to come to that conclusion. One too many Lime Rickey's hey mate?

 

roosters have no juniors you peanuts!!

Where is there a Eastern Suburbs junior League??

They all play in the Souths juniors & get everything payed for by them

****ing scum

 

Rorters have been doing it for 100 years, they've always been Souths poor relation, thats about to be rammed down your throat in the next few years

You know when other teams supporters start hating you, ones that didnt previously, that you are doing something right & you are a threat

 

I've always liked this article, even though it's not really a Souths friendly article...

Wednesday, 09 June 2010
backpagelead.com.au

Maybe it’s just me, but the prospect of South Sydney winning the NRL premiership, a prospect which looms ever larger as they fit their high-priced purchases with cohesive teamwork, makes me feel like puking.

This is a team I marched for, when they were kicked out, because I liked the Bunnies and opposed the economic rationalism that left no place for them in a reduced league. We’d lost Norths and Newtown and would soon see two

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foundation clubs, Balmain and Wests, lose their separate identities in a merger. Redfern was

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we drew the line

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sand.

When Souths were reinstated, I went to their first game. They were scorched by the Roosters at the SFS, but it didn’t matter. Even the hollowed-out faces of Rabbitohs fans were smiling.

Souths fans

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a hard-bitten lot because they’ve been bitten hard: by defeat, by luck. They won’t believe they’ve won the premiership until they’ve gone to

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and woken up the next day and read the papers. They permit themselves, in lapsed moments, to hope and dream, but never to believe. That’s why, as a neutral, you’ve got to

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them.

Then along came Maximus. I don’t know Russell Crowe from Robin Hood but I make no excuses for the following ignorant character assassination. This, after all, is what Rusty’s beloved tribalism is all about: unleashing irrational passions.

Russell Crowe is a

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fellow, for he can achieve the impossible. Is it possible for a single man to make a whole club detestable? Russell can, and did. I don’t know if it’s the boring, droning pomposity. I don’t know if it’s the mannered ordinary-bloke thing. I don’t know if it’s the wife-hugging in the corporate box whenever Souths score, or the careful absences when they’re getting caned. I don’t know if it’s the Book of Whatever It Is. I don’t know if it’s Pamela Anderson cajoled into wearing Rabbitohs caps. I don’t know if it’s his mate the league-loving Sydney denizen Peter Holmes a

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. I don’t know if it was the specious pretexts to dump Jason Taylor and Joe Galuvao. I don’t know if it’s just the up-himself, big-man-in-town wankery.

But whatever it is, Russell’s achieved it. He’s made Souths a team to barrack against.

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, it would have been fine if they’d kept losing. But Russell did a lot to talk top-quality players like Sam Burgess, Roy Asotasi and Dave Taylor into coming to Souths, and

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on him for that. (They just want to hope that, unlike Galuvao and Adam McDougall and some others, they’re not tomorrow’s discarded boiled bunnies.) Whatever manner he’s

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, and the salary cap auditor has no doubt been through Souths’ files with his microscope, Russell has built a team to reckon with. They have a top bloke for a coach in Johnny Lang, and a few retreads

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are reaching their potential alongside the stars. They’ve discarded cheergirls and pokies, and constructed their success on a growing base of membership. Good on them for that. In many ways Souths are the club of the future, and a team to admire.

But it doesn’t sit right, this glam and twizzle. This is Souths, damn it. The only mortgage they ever held was on nostalgia. They’re the premiership champions of yesteryear, the upholders of the purity of inner-city poverty, the burnt-out

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of league’s rust-belt past. So much easier to love when they were losers.

 

There are exceptions. you guys will always be despised simply because of what you stand for.:yep

Souths will always have more than a handful of their juniors in their side, and this trait alone will always make us more likable than the scum.