OK Sorry for the mix up..I was referring to I think 05 when Mosgiel were hot favorite�s to take the title after Andy "Spartan Warrior" Coburn,Mike eisenhut and Terry Boylan the hottest players at the time met up with Michael abbort,Mcgary,Hore the keeper and rickerby under the eye of 05 Otago coach of the year Malcom Fleming
think you mean mosgiel 05 (boylan and eisenhut), mosgiel 06 were woeful. And roslyn 06 ( Boylan and eisenhut)Roslyn 07???? who went to roslyn in 07 to win medals?? its was a young team who finished third...pritty unfounded comment
I was a year ahead of myself I think sorry!Between 05-06 im sure Roslyn did have a run around the club signing the likes of Scoullar,Boylan,Eisenhut,evan and havin a poach a Loyal players such as Horner,scoules and Coburn aswell as for 07 sorry I had my timing wrong
And back to player of the year I think I remember Burgess scoring a hatrick against Henderson In the Cathum cup game so I wouldn�t say burgess went missing in the big games
thetruthnz2009-02-27 12:33:54
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Its ok saying that Dino and im sure some of the player�s would be fine with not getting paid but these guys train Tuesday,Thursday and Saturday are away sometimes Saturday night and all day Sunday in city�s around New Zealand leaving at 6am in the morning and getting back late into Sunday night many of them with work/uni or other commitments at 7/8am the morning and you say they don�t deserve to get paid? I no Rugby is a fully professional sport in this country but could you imagine the Otago NPC team being asked to do the same every weekend flying up and back in the same day and then getting a pat on the back when they get off the plane then having to pay to get themselves�s out of the airport carpark and off home.. I don�t think so but yet how many games did they win last year?About 4 if I remember right for a minimum salary of about 20k.So I think for the time they put in they should at least get a small wage with maybe a win bonus plan or something along those lines because im sure the coaches and Board are still getting paid if the team loses so why not the players
Those gambling machines, like cigarettes are obviously detrimental to society etc however they do provide positives such as funding for sport. Christ if it weren�t for that we wouldn�t have any sport in NZ � bring back cigarette advertising and sponsorship I say � people will smoke either way.
Do you think if the money wasn�t invested in the players that it would be put to good use Dino? My thought would be that it would end up in someone else�s pocket completely undeserving of any remuneration.
With the exception of one or two players in the first two seasons of the NZFC no one received a cent. Every other franchise was paying there players in some form or another. Training could be as many as 5 times a week and these guys turned up. So to say they're greedy is completely unreasonable and unfounded.
Kennedy2009-03-02 14:03:27