yes i agree the nrl did not force us to sack bird, but there was pressure from
sponsors to sack him, this is about the same time we lost LG that at the time
was our major sponsor plus the wave of negative press would have made it
hard to find new ones. So we may not have been forced to sack bird, but still had
little choice.
where as a team like manly did nothing cause there owner & major sponsor was
never going to dump manly like LG did to us.
this is why i think off field dramas should be handled by the nrl,s independent panel
once set up to create a level playing field in this regard.
hard to
