On the 8th August Phil Rothfield randomly tweets:
Followed by:
The Chairman then tweets:
Today, Phil Rothfield writes an article:
Now I know Rothfield has written all sorts of dribble over the years but on this occasion, it would seem that he has got an agenda at hand. His credibility has always been a bit suss but sometimes he just seems to not engage his brain before opening his mouth.
Sure he may want Todd Carney to come to the Club. That's his opinion and as they say, "opinions are like arsëholes - everyone's got one."
I have my opinions on Todd Carney too as does everyone here. That doesn't make them either right or wrong - they're just opinions.
As far as I'm concerned, the recruitment for the Club is in the hands of Shane Flanagan and Darren Mooney who are then reportable to the Board that employs them. If Flanagan and Mooney want to employ Carney, they'll need to have a pretty good case to argue to the Board that this is an intelligent, prudent and responsible appointment.
In some ways I'd like to see Todd Carney in a Sharks jumper but that is in the jumper only for 80 minutes of football a week during the league season.
I don't want him at an official function mingling with sponsors, politicians, journalists, or doing school and community visits or all those other sorts of ambassadorial jobs that are required of a modern NRL player. Could you confidently rely on Todd to turn up at a school at 9:30 in the morning to address a school assembly and not be hungover? Could you have him at a sponsor's lunch and trust him not to get on the turps and make a goose of himself?
Let's face it... you have to be pretty messed up to be run out of your own town and banned from re-entry for 2 years by a Magistrate. We're not talking about somebody who like a drink or two. We're talking about someone who gets on the grog and gets out of control.
It is naive to say that a Club can manage Todd Carney when clearly he can't even manage himself. There's just way too many caveats, promises and assurances that he will have to make to the Club. Likewise, it is naive to think that somebody can "fix" Todd Carney. There is only one person that can fix Todd Carney and that is Todd Carney.
At this particular point in the Club's history, the Club needs to maintain its focus on the bigger issue at hand - the survival and success of the Club. What the Club doest NOT need is to be playing nursemaid and media janitor to a player that chooses to behave in a way that abrogates his responsibility to his employer and to the community that supports him.
For mine, it's a NO to Todd Carney... and a big facepalm to that goose Rothfield - leave the Sharks recruiting to the guys in charge and stop playing silly-buggers by abusing your journalist's privileges.
Excuse me for being naive Fitz, but journalistic privileges surely don't give a journo the right to go out and make up rubbish. Surely. This is what I just don't understand about the media and how they are allowed to have so much power. Why are they not accountable? Who do they answer to? I reckon laws should be changed to ensure they don't write dribble (and I mean in any sense, not just in sport).
Again me being naive but I really thought the death of Princess Diana would make the media pull their heads in when it came to people's privacy and that laws would be changed to make them pull their heads in. It is obvious that I was wrong and nothing has changed.
Anyway, a bit off topic but I really can't stand people who want to sensationalise everything. If Gal, Flanno or DI have had no imput into this "story" whatsoever and it is all a Rothfield fairy story, then I unreservedly apologise to everyone for falling for it and putting on this poll.
I actually saw Rothfield at the Tigers game and he didn't look well at all. Those photos in the paper are obviously very old ones or touched up as he does not look like a well man.
Thanks Fitz for your input and opinion, at the end of the day common sense will surely prevail and we must not do anything to tarnish this great club. After all the hard work people have put in, it can take just one idiot and one idiotic event to undo all that.
I cant believe we are seriously having this conversation I am aware its the off season but I would rather talk about Rugby or even Jisaw and his Slug ewwwww.
For all the good he could do on the field he could do ten times the damage off it.
also what players have to go to accommodate him as well Chad Kelly the other kids that are looking for a future **** that.
I value our club does anyone honestly think carney would? and that's the problem he doesn't give a flying **** about anyone besides himself not the kind of person any club needs especially ours, the Roosters have just worked that out even they couldn't handle it any longer dont you think they would have kept him if they thought he wouldn't do it again and that's the problem he will and we cant afford that.
So unless he is living and shackled to gallens leg as soon as he leaves the field its a big NO for me.
Exactly Willy, that is what I was saying at the beginning of this thread, we have to put the future of our junior players first. I would not oppose his signing, but I would be just as happy if we didn't.
