NRL Storm!
I don''t know much about today's NRL, nor anymore about the AFL as it's become.
But I do know that both sports are rigged each week, purely for supporter dollars.
We've all watched the VFL grow to become the AFL, and with that growth the uncanny victories that went to the new teams, be they Sydney Swans, or those in Western Australia, etc.
As the AFL expanded out of Victoria, so too did match-wins, and premiership cups to out-of-state teams.
How else could the V/AFL become popular in states other than Victoria, if those new teams in the other states weren't winning?
Being a Melbourne kid, I know rugby has not been popular south of the border, so, focusing on other issues for a few decades, I'm a little surprised that there is so much said in the media about Melbourne Storm rugby team as if it has a traditional place in the game?
It, the “Melbourne Storm salary-caps rorts”, strikes me as merely another method deployed by the corporate football elites and advertising and accounts departments to raise the popularity of, in this case, rugby, in the traditional home of Aussie Rules football.
It stands to reason that the Storm, again, while not knowing anything about their age in the league, about how long they've been in it, representing the hometown of Aussie Rules, would have to have a pretty hot team to win enough, and to thus win Victorian-based supporters, enough to financially support it's prolonged and expensive existence.
And we all know that to get the best players, the teams have to have the lolly, and as the news is telling us, lots of lolly!
And what is the lolly for, but to buy the high-priced players.
As is regularly witnessed in football and other sporting leagues world wide, corruption and generally criminal behaviour is the rule. All the best sports-people are very wealthy-thang-you-very-much.
I s'pose the qvestion izzz...,
“Is it the players who know what they're worth to the sports' corporate managers, and therefore are the ones demanding the lotto-lolly (a form of blackmail, when it is analysed from a legal perspective), or are the sports' corporate managers the ones offering the lotto-lolly to the talented sporters, so-as to rake-in the supporters?”
In this current storm, the chappie accused of being behind the salary-caps scam, previously worked in the same position in other rugby clubs. The “Rebels” one of them. The Rebels are based in NSW are they not?
If so (sorry I can't be bothered enough to scan the media to establish this), my point about the “Melbourne” Storm and their being in the NRL and from NOT NSW is weakened, but as I say, the salary-cap scam is not new here nor in Britain, and elsewhere wherever sport attains to corporate sponsorship and management.
One headline I saw this evening suggested something suspicious that Prime Minister Rudd did something “iffy” while this sports storm was winning the headlines' space and time.
Again, I could scan the media for that article, but feel lazy. It might have been HEY Abbott from the leaders chair of the Liberal party. If so, for once I'll agree with him.
At 55 (HAPPY BIRTHDAY OMEE!), I'm passed being sceptical about politics, having seen the same tactic played regularly whenever a touchy political issue is aired or exposed.
Therefore.....?
However, HOWEVER?
My sixth sense tells me that our IMF Labor government, is actually one which, perhaps for the first time since federation, is a seeker of Justice.
And seeking Justice demands that the nation's “economics” are put in order, when we're talking federal politics.
It's quite another issue when we're talking STATE politrix, mind you.
And, as many of us have been made aware of the last ten years or so, politics is in the main about AVOIDING the hard, cold FACTS about what sustains Good Culture, and thus Good Government, and that Good Government cannot be Good Government unless it is based on Good Economics.
And, as most know, Scientific Inquiry into Good Economics, on the local level AND on the National level, reveals that, without doubt, Land Tax, as recommended in the nearly released Henry Tax Review, is the most Honest and thus “Most Good” method of taxation a nation can institute.
But but but..., this may have nothing to do with rugby?
But rugby may be a suitable way to slow the storm the dropposition wants to have rain down on any attempts by the government for a JUST Economy?
I put it, to all our so-called True Aussie “sportsmen” (and women of course), that if they ARE True Aussies, then surely 'Cobber', it's about time one or a few hundred of them did the right thing, and spoke out honestly, that is Honorably, by blowing-the-whistle on these corporate mega-scams we call “footy” and “rugby”, and even the high farce we know as “the Olympics”, and expose the details behind YOUR high-flying lives, and thrown-game dives, sponsored by the desperate and otherwise bored Jo Public sports-fans?
On this, there's something quite unrealistic behind such “good blokes” as our “come-on-Aussie-come-on” national cricketers, flying from one world competition to the next... “in their own learjet”?
Yer tellin' me yer av'rage punters aren't mugs!?!?!!?!
Oh? Where, exactly, does the owner of Melbourne Storm, News Limited, or Rupert Murdoch, fit into all of this Zeig Hail??
And therefore...., any credibility to the suggestion that the PM was hiding isshoooz behind a grand media sporting distraction???
Collusion between Murdoch mega-media...., and the ALP??
Noooo! Shurely not, Jimmay!
Finally..., I say, Rupert, ol' Chum!? As your media hounds are ever-ready for a bit of plagiarism, of my thinks, and to prove that you are NOT a biased and corrupt corporate clone, (a tall call, Omee?!) what-say you do an expose-ay, on how many of today's sportsfolk, at least here in Astrayliar, are from the private school elite upclubs?!
Naturally, this should lead into a dig into how many of yer av'rage Joes from public schools, actually have a chance of making it into the hallowed halls of the Melbourne Cricket Clubrooms or such, and to wearing the revered "baggy green cap"?
And tripping 'round the globe week-by-week, in their own learjet?
Just a thought....
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