Frankenstien's monster
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:25 am
The greatest problem for the Melbourne Storm is we are an outpost
And we have been treated with great disdain by the NRL and News Corp who actually own the game. They have done nothing to try and make the game prosper in the city of Melbourne.
No matter the premierships (some they have taken from us but not other teams who have had salary cap breaks) or the great underpinning people behind and infront of the scenes at the Melbourne Storm; eventually we are treated like we started out as. As a Frankenstiens monster that good too big, too success, too good, too professional for the head office people at the NRL and News Corp and they have tried everything in their power to bring us down.
Look at the commentary esp on Foxtel, it is seriously biased against the Storm.
Eniis, Glasnier, Alexander less so Walters and Roach. Gus Gould is terrible in the way he barracks against the Storm. He just can;t help himself. You would never eve hear the AFL commentators on any channel barrack against the Sydney Swans or the GWS.
And just like the Gold Coast teams; eventually players want to go somewhere else. Yes, Cameron and Billy stayed. But virtually everyone else has gone back somewhere else or is thinking about it. The kiwis want to go home. The sydneysiders want to go home and the queenslanders want to go to sydney where they can subsidie their money by making tv appearances.
And the absolute hate that gets spewed towards Cameron Smith is disgusting. The whole 60 minutes thing, the whole Cameron referees every game. It starts off as a laugh and then is turned into a serous credibility bashing session. The hate that gets spewed towards Cameron by a totally biased media is terrible.
I fear if Munster leaves, with Billy and Cameron going, we will be a shell team. A feeder Club for others who pick and choose the players they want whenever they want.
Yes we have had success on the field and yes we have developed a great culture as a team off it. But substantially we are caught between two cities that hate each other. Melbourne people are born and breed AFL and unless the Storm are successful they will turn off immediately. Sydney people want to bash the Storm because they represent something they hate. The game moving forward and away from bring sydney centric. Sydney people dont want a national game; they want a sydney game with maybe the Brisbane Broncos thrown.
just look at the way the Sydney Liberal political mafia implode in Canberra all the time is enough of a reference to see what and how Sydney people operate.
As Rothfield said last night on NRL 360, I fear for the Melbourne Storm, they are in a lot of trouble. He didn't mean the injuries and suspensions form this week; he meant the long term prosperity and yes we can go around and play with the best coach in the NRL (how lucky we were to get Bellyache) but if players leave at the drop of the hate then Melbourne fans who only have a cordial interest in the game will fall away.
The game itself is in a lot of trouble. meanwhile AFL, basketball and soccer just get bigger and bigger across Australia with a vision of a national identity.
NRL, the N should be taken out. It is the sydneycentric and Brisbane Broncos RL
Even the decision not to have a second team out of Brisbane is ludicrous
We are playing a game on other peoples terms and conditions (as proven when we got our premierships stolen) and that means it never will be a level playing field or fair. We are being used like a mouse by a cat . Just for sport and someone elses fun.
There is no one at NRL headquarters or at News Corp in our corner fighting for us.
And we have been treated with great disdain by the NRL and News Corp who actually own the game. They have done nothing to try and make the game prosper in the city of Melbourne.
No matter the premierships (some they have taken from us but not other teams who have had salary cap breaks) or the great underpinning people behind and infront of the scenes at the Melbourne Storm; eventually we are treated like we started out as. As a Frankenstiens monster that good too big, too success, too good, too professional for the head office people at the NRL and News Corp and they have tried everything in their power to bring us down.
Look at the commentary esp on Foxtel, it is seriously biased against the Storm.
Eniis, Glasnier, Alexander less so Walters and Roach. Gus Gould is terrible in the way he barracks against the Storm. He just can;t help himself. You would never eve hear the AFL commentators on any channel barrack against the Sydney Swans or the GWS.
And just like the Gold Coast teams; eventually players want to go somewhere else. Yes, Cameron and Billy stayed. But virtually everyone else has gone back somewhere else or is thinking about it. The kiwis want to go home. The sydneysiders want to go home and the queenslanders want to go to sydney where they can subsidie their money by making tv appearances.
And the absolute hate that gets spewed towards Cameron Smith is disgusting. The whole 60 minutes thing, the whole Cameron referees every game. It starts off as a laugh and then is turned into a serous credibility bashing session. The hate that gets spewed towards Cameron by a totally biased media is terrible.
I fear if Munster leaves, with Billy and Cameron going, we will be a shell team. A feeder Club for others who pick and choose the players they want whenever they want.
Yes we have had success on the field and yes we have developed a great culture as a team off it. But substantially we are caught between two cities that hate each other. Melbourne people are born and breed AFL and unless the Storm are successful they will turn off immediately. Sydney people want to bash the Storm because they represent something they hate. The game moving forward and away from bring sydney centric. Sydney people dont want a national game; they want a sydney game with maybe the Brisbane Broncos thrown.
just look at the way the Sydney Liberal political mafia implode in Canberra all the time is enough of a reference to see what and how Sydney people operate.
As Rothfield said last night on NRL 360, I fear for the Melbourne Storm, they are in a lot of trouble. He didn't mean the injuries and suspensions form this week; he meant the long term prosperity and yes we can go around and play with the best coach in the NRL (how lucky we were to get Bellyache) but if players leave at the drop of the hate then Melbourne fans who only have a cordial interest in the game will fall away.
The game itself is in a lot of trouble. meanwhile AFL, basketball and soccer just get bigger and bigger across Australia with a vision of a national identity.
NRL, the N should be taken out. It is the sydneycentric and Brisbane Broncos RL
Even the decision not to have a second team out of Brisbane is ludicrous
We are playing a game on other peoples terms and conditions (as proven when we got our premierships stolen) and that means it never will be a level playing field or fair. We are being used like a mouse by a cat . Just for sport and someone elses fun.
There is no one at NRL headquarters or at News Corp in our corner fighting for us.