Rothfield

[chunk67]

This so called sharks fan should hand in his membership!!! Again today he is dragging the sharks down in his blog @ the telegraph. He continues to threaten to walk into the club and hand his membership in. I say do it and leave the sharks alone, he's not a real fan!!

On a number of occasions I have put in my two cents trying to be fair to the Sharks & today Gallen and my comments are never published.
He love's to side with Sharks haters.
I stated that it is only fair we hear Gallen's defense before he was fined. In the SMH it is stated that Galllen claims he was misheard and would like to contest the fine. There is no known audio of the incident or any formal complaints been made by Paea.
Phil is saying that neither Gallen nor his manager have disputer him calling Paea a Black C%Nt though the SMH states otherwise.

Gallens a good bloke and should be given a fair go...

i beg to differ, he is a good footballer and a deadset dikhead

 

[WillyInBris]

"journalist".

Thats a big call more likely a tabloid writer

 

[ROB SHARK]

i beg to differ, he is a good footballer and a deadset dikhead

mate you are kidding yourself.

 

[SF]

I'll defend Rothfield. He is one of the few allies in the media that the Sharks have had (Clinton Maynard is another), even though I disagree with anyone who ever threatens to walk away.

He write about 50 comments an hour and it's hard to say everything perfectly... but with the Gallen stuff today, Rothfield is only stating what most of the public, media and sponsors think.

He has earned a lot of credit anyway by being the main force in the media pushing for the new club elections. Just my thoughts...

 

[vicsharkfan]

jeez c'mon guys
im a gallen fan, but seriously hard to argue that he said nothing racist did u see how quickly he walked away when pae started to go off..... there is no way gallen walks away from a fight unless he thinks he was totally in the wrong 10k fine really isn't a bad result to be honest!!!

 

[Woody@goSharks]

I'll defend Rothfield. He is one of the few allies in the media that the Sharks have had (Clinton Maynard is another), even though I disagree with anyone who ever threatens to walk away.

You can not be serious, what he doing is irresponsible reporting. How many facts does he actually state in his articles? Absolutely none. I will be farken angry if Gallen loses the captaincy and I will blame Phil Rothfield.

I CANNOT BELIEVE PHIL ROTHFIELD CAN MAKE A LIVING OUT OF WRITING HIS SPAM. HE HAS ABSOLUTELY NO CREDIBILITY.

 

[Google News]

Scared to let my son play - Phil Rothfield

Source:http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=...206252&usg=AFQjCNH-qSuO_b5hpFAGdg5E0T1LanamUA

Scared to let my son play
By Phil Rothfield
February 23, 2010 12:00AM

MY SON has just signed up to play rugby league in the Sutherland Shire and I'm frightened.

He's six years of age and will play in the Cronulla juniors. Last winter he played soccer for the local Lilli Pilli club and I was hoping he would stick with it for one reason only - there's less chance of him getting injured.

But his heroes in life are Luke Covell, Paul Gallen, Trent Barrett and Blake Ferguson.

In pouring rain he insisted I take him to the Sharks trial against Manly two Friday nights ago.

At fulltime he got in a line with the rest of the kids at the players tunnel and high-fived his heroes as they walked off.

We bought him Jarryd Hayne's yellow boots last week, which he took to bed with him. He dreams of being a Shark himself one day and runs around the house impersonating Ray Warren's voice with Cronulla winning a Grand Final. (Poor kid.)

He has rarely got a rugby league ball out of his hands at home and takes one to school every day.

I guess I shouldn't be worried ... but I am. Like any parent, I think my Jack is the most beautiful little boy on the planet.

I've tried many times to talk him out of playing but as parents, my wife and I always said our children would choose what sports they wanted to play and we wouldn't stand in their way.

I can't stand the thought of him getting hurt. Or, on the other hand, I sometimes find myself hoping he might get a couple of decent bumps early on and then decide soccer was more his go.

Call me a wuss, but I worry about him barging in to make a tackle and breaking his neck. Or diving on a loose ball and getting an accidental kick in the head.

If he was playing against boys his own size and weight, I wouldn't be so concerned.

This debate over juniors playing in weight divisions should have been addressed a long time ago.

It's a fact of life that Polynesian kids develop muscle, body shape and size earlier than Anglo-Saxon children. You've got 25kg kids running around the park against boys twice their size.

And don't get me wrong - this is not a racist issue against the Polynesian boys, because without them we wouldn't have an NRL. The two best and most exciting ball players in the competition are Benji Marshall and Feleti Mateo. Both are Polynesians.

The game needs them ... but in the right weight division, at least in the development years.

 

[slide rule]

Yes, you're a wuss.

You constantly deride soccer and yet you want your own son to play it? :ridiculed

You are a shyte stirrer and a hypocrite of the highest order.

The issue which you are trying to address does have some genuine merit to it, but you have ruined your argument by writing in a way which is intended to aimlessly stir shyte. :inyouget

Surely the public is waking up to this man's rubbish.

 

[Bundy]

1. I played soccer growing up. Did ligaments in both ankles, the left one twice and it still gives me hassles at 31. Twisted my left knee off from the top of my shin like a twist top on a beer bottle. Got knocked out. There are plenty of inuries to be had on the soccer field, most of which involve ankles and knees and will trouble someone for a long time later in life.

2. You claim you are not being racist but state as fact that Polynesian kids develop faster in muscle and body size and then site Benji Marshall as an example? Is he 5yrs old or something????


Harden up Phil. What a useless, cheap article which seems to have no base except that you love your son and don't want him to get hurt. You're hardly Robinson Crusoe there.

 

[Murphy]

Source:http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=...206252&usg=AFQjCNH-qSuO_b5hpFAGdg5E0T1LanamUA

Scared to let my son play
By Phil Rothfield
February 23, 2010 12:00AM

MY SON has just signed up to play rugby league in the Sutherland Shire and I'm frightened.

He's six years of age and will play in the Cronulla juniors. Last winter he played soccer for the local Lilli Pilli club and I was hoping he would stick with it for one reason only - there's less chance of him getting injured.

But his heroes in life are Luke Covell, Paul Gallen, Trent Barrett and Blake Ferguson.

In pouring rain he insisted I take him to the Sharks trial against Manly two Friday nights ago.

At fulltime he got in a line with the rest of the kids at the players tunnel and high-fived his heroes as they walked off.

We bought him Jarryd Hayne's yellow boots last week, which he took to bed with him. He dreams of being a Shark himself one day and runs around the house impersonating Ray Warren's voice with Cronulla winning a Grand Final. (Poor kid.)

He has rarely got a rugby league ball out of his hands at home and takes one to school every day.

I guess I shouldn't be worried ... but I am. Like any parent, I think my Jack is the most beautiful little boy on the planet.

I've tried many times to talk him out of playing but as parents, my wife and I always said our children would choose what sports they wanted to play and we wouldn't stand in their way.

I can't stand the thought of him getting hurt. Or, on the other hand, I sometimes find myself hoping he might get a couple of decent bumps early on and then decide soccer was more his go.

Call me a wuss, but I worry about him barging in to make a tackle and breaking his neck. Or diving on a loose ball and getting an accidental kick in the head.

If he was playing against boys his own size and weight, I wouldn't be so concerned.

This debate over juniors playing in weight divisions should have been addressed a long time ago.

It's a fact of life that Polynesian kids develop muscle, body shape and size earlier than Anglo-Saxon children. You've got 25kg kids running around the park against boys twice their size.

And don't get me wrong - this is not a racist issue against the Polynesian boys, because without them we wouldn't have an NRL. The two best and most exciting ball players in the competition are Benji Marshall and Feleti Mateo. Both are Polynesians.

The game needs them ... but in the right weight division, at least in the development years.

lol love your work:borat

 

[Mark^Bastard]

Rothfield is a joke. Why is that prick getting money to type ****? God I hate him. I'd say "Die in a fire Rothfield" but it looks like he already has.

 

[Sharkspeare]

while he might write some crap, he is spot on about the size of some of the Island boys. We used to have weight divisions in the bush in the 60's, all good from the damage point of view, but when you get a skinny 13yo playing with mainly 10yo's he usually has a lot more knowledge & ability which can almost be unfair. I must admit I personally did prefer playing ages rather than weight..but as a 6yo it would be pretty daunting to have a giant kid steamrolling you every time they get the ball. Mothers don't want to see little Johnny continually used as a speed hump & would soon be trying very hard to get them to play something else..I realise that at that age they usually play like a swarm of angry hornets chasing someone that has disturbed the nest, but mums work on the 'what if' system & this is one of the reasons some kids do not get the pleasure of playing League..

 

[slide rule]

The size difference usually becomes an issue at around about 10 years old. Not 6.

 

[mtk]

I'm not sure why everyone here is bagging Rothfield. He may have something to do with the occasional soft article that slips into the paper about our beloved Sharks. He has certainly included a few charitable snippets in his weekend gossip column.

From time to time we bemoan the soft ride that other clubs have in the media due to the connections and favours being done; let's not bite the hand that feeds us. Perhaps we should consider ourselves lucky to have a Sharks man amongst the significant players in the rugby league media.

 

[Mark^Bastard]

Perhaps we should consider ourselves lucky to have a Sharks man amongst the significant players in the rugby league media.

Not when it's Rothfield. He makes us look bad. He's a joke.

 

[slide rule]

He doesn’t do us any favours and even if he did I would still have the same low opinion of him as a "journalist".

 

[peachey]

he is a not a sharks fan..someone get DOCS onto that kid

 

[Mark^Bastard]

he is a not a sharks fan..someone get DOCS onto that kid

:fergo::fergo::fergo::fergo:

 

[peachey]

he has lost the plot, spent to much time with rebecca wilson so he is now starting to filter his kids into articles..

 

[hitman124]

Well the great news for this guy is that with AFL growing at an out of control rate in Sydney, he can soon put his son in a sport that will be the premier sporting code of New South