Players Polled by Rugby League Week Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

[StormFront]

http://www.theage.com.au/rugby-league/l ... -uv8l.html


What a stupid poll. It proves nothing, does nothing and says nothing.
It is not fact it is all based on a guess ....

I so hate articles like this with no real facts, just assumptions and
fluff to fill out the article - poor journalism and does nothing for
the game of Rugby League.

[Chip]

A former Storm player says he was aware of cash payments to several stars in his time at the club.

"One guy told me he regularly got cash - it can never be detected but it happened, the ex-Storm player said. "And good luck to him."

I suspect that if you took "storm" out of the first sentence it would be pretty much true for any club. 

[noa nandruku]

Interesting discussion http://forum.sportal.com.au/yaf_postst7 ... s-All.aspx here on who the rat may be.

Personally I think its sour-grapes from some-one who was told they werent wanted.

[bula]

If there's any truth in the article, then most probably would be Guerra because he left on bad terms.
But I don't believe a word they say, anonymous! What a load of shit

[Bourbon Rat]

My company does an anonymous employee poll every year.Funny how the results ALWAYS say a major % of employees are happy with the hours they work & the pay that they get. 
The killer was that "The Poll" said most employees wanted the years of long service rewards,(dollar value) cut back...................RIGHT 

NEVER believe a poll compiled by someone with their own agenda 

[Cowbell-Mark]

On the Storm

Should the Storm be given back their 2009 and 2007 premierships?
YES 50
NO 48
No comment 2

Should Parramatta and Manly be handed the titles from 2009 and 2007?
YES 12
NO 88

Should the Storm have been banned from 2010 competition?
YES 39
NO 59
No comment 2

Should the NRL persist with a league team in Melbourne?
YES 98
NO 2

Have you ever been offered any fringe benefits not claimed under the cap?
YES 0
NO 100

Do you think the Storm players knew about the rorts?
YES 62
NO 38

Are you aware what your full salary and extras package is?
YES 100
NO 0

Do you know of any rorting of the salary cap?
YES 11
NO 88
No comment 1

Is the NRL taking too long to introduce an independent commission?
YES 85
NO 15

Should the salary cap be abolished?
YES 37
NO 63

Is David Gallop doing a good job?
a) on the Storm issue
YES 52
NO 46
No comment 2
b) overall
YES 66
NO 34

General
_________________________

Who is the best player in the game?
Billy Slater 27
Cam Smith 19
J. Thurston 19
Others 35

Who is the best new talent of 2010?
Josh Dugan 42
Trent Hodkinson 16
Matt Gillett 12
Others 30

Who is the most over-rated player in the game?
No comment 30
Justin Poore 11
Jamie Soward 6
Trent Barrett 5
Others 48

Who is the game's hardest hitter?
Sam Burgess 15
Nigel Plum 14
S. Matai, P. Civoniceva 9
Others 53

Who is the game's biggest sledger?
Michael Ennis 53 (last year 27)
Brett Finch 21
Willie Mason 5
Others 21

Who is the game's best coach?
Wayne Bennett 47
Craig Bellamy 27
Briain Smith 6
Others 20

Who is the most arrogant team in the comp?
Storm 30
Dragons 27
Sea Eagles 22
Others 21

Did Billy Slater cross the line when he sledged Cory Paterson about his mental illness?
YES 50
NO 50

Do you go off the drink completely during the season?
YES 23
NO 77

Do you fear going out because you could end up in a brawl or on the front page of the paper?
YES 58
NO 42

Should players who defect to AFL or rugby be banned from ever returning to the NRL?
YES 8
NO 92

Who will win this year's Premiership?
Dragons 47
Sea Eagles 26
Panthers 7
Others 20

Would Melbourne have won it if they were still eligible?
YES 69
NO 31

Referees
_________________________

Who is the game's leading referee?
Shayne Hayne 30
Tony Archer 24
Gavin Badger 13
Others 33

Should we go back to one referee instead of two?
YES 43
NO 57

Do you have faith in referees?
YES 65
NO 35

Name The Best Player In Each Position (no team-mates)
_________________________

FULLBACK
Billy Slater 65
Jarryd Hayne 14
Josh Dugan 7
Others 14

WINGER
Brett Morris 50
Lote Tuqiri 19
Israel Folau 8
Others 23

CENTRE
Greg Inglis 54
Michael Jennings 13
Matt Cooper 11
Others 22

FIVE-EIGHTH
Darren Lockyer 60
Benji Marshall 17
Jamie Soward 4
Others 19

HALFBACK
Johnathan Thurston 67
Cooper Cronk 20
Mitchell Pearce 4
Others 9

LOCK
Paul Gallen 35
Luke Lewis 23
Glenn Stewart 13
Others 29

SECOND ROWER
Anthony Watmough 26
Ben Creagh 25
Sam Thaiday 16
Others 33

HOOKER
Cameron Smith 62
Robbie Farah 16
Michael Ennis 11
Others 11

PROP
Petero Civoniceva 57
Ben Hannant 20
Michael Weyman 6
Others 17

[LESStar58]

Scott Anderson.

[StormFront]

Thanks for putting up the poll questions...

I think you make the same set of stats look good or bad according
to the agenda of the people who interpret it.

I still think this poll says nothing..... just a waste of ink.

[Buzz]

Have you ever been offered any fringe benefits not claimed under the cap?
YES 0
NO 100

Do you think the Storm players knew about the rorts?
YES 62
NO 38

Are you aware what your full salary and extras package is?
YES 100
NO 0

Do you know of any rorting of the salary cap?
YES 11
NO 88
No comment 1

And these are the real interesting questions. Someone has to be telling fibs if no-one has been offered anything out of the cap, everyone knows what's in their package, and yet 62% believe the Storm players knew, and that 11% know of rorting within the system.

[bula]

Rubbish poll. I know for a fact other players know.

[CooperCronk]

I suspect that if you took "storm" out of the first sentence it would be pretty much true for any club. 

That sums it up in a nutshell.

[Gezz]

On the Storm

Have you ever been offered any fringe benefits not claimed under the cap?
YES 0
NO 100

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA x 454654678521672316876841

Give me a break.

[sallymay]

I actully was given this poll last week by matt geyer via twitter
he said that they didnt have 100 players and need extra ppl he said about 10 fans did it it was the the same questions and everything

[The Eagle]

Polls are absolutely useless worthless wastes of effort in entirety
i wouldnt bother reading into it at all

[CooperCronk]

Polls are absolutely useless worthless wastes of effort in entirety
i wouldnt bother reading into it at all

You might not bother with it, but thousands of nrl fans do and take it as gospel (in this particular case the RLW poll on Storm's drama).

The Age ran with the story and now we have someone saying that RLW couldn't find 100 players to fill it in and fans were filling it as well.