Elliott remains on Raiders radar; The Milk the book progressing well
Sports update for Valued Subscribers.
Highly valued subscribers and sports fans, good day.
Two things today, footy and book news.
Agenda item A) sees Adam Elliott in negotiations with Canberra Raiders about shoring up the middle section of the footy field following the departures of Sia Solioloa, Dunamis Lui and Ryan James, who is off to the Broncos after an odd little tenure.
And word from our man on the ground (yes, we have a man, on the inside, sort of) is that Elliott remains in the conversation about playing for the Raiders in 2022 despite Wests Tigers laying a contract upon his figurative table.
Put this to my man The Mole, who knows these things, or at least knows the people who make these decisions, and he confirmed that Elliott-to-Canberra remains a “chance”.
“It’s a chance,” The Mole said.
So there you go.
Bad boy?
Hmm … I don’t actually reckon. He’s done a couple silly things on the piss that have got in the papers via anti-social media, and that’s why he’s “brought the game into disrepute” because these things got into the public sphere rather than the actual severity of his “crimes” which were on the very low scale, for mine, given they are the personal fuck-ups of a 20-something dim-bulb.
And if the National Rugby League continues to employ 20-something dim-bulbs - which it must because these are the people who are good at rugby league - then this is just shit that will, and it is 100 per cent guaranteed going forward amen, happen.
You’d also suggest Bulldogs Inc. saw it as an opportunity to free up some coin and continue the wanton spending spree that nicked off with our Nick Cotric and has since landed Matt Burton, Matt Dufty, Josh Addo-Carr, Paul Vaughan, Max King, Tevita Pangai Junior, Braidon Burns, Brent Naden, John Asiata and Josh Cook.
And all of it overseen by all-seeing bulbous-eyed svengali Phillip “Augustus” Gould who would not be back at Belmore for cab fare and the odd sausage sandwich, I can give you the tip.
“Rebuilding” today means seeing out two or three seasons being threatened or indeed whacked by the wooden spoon and you can save up some cash and go the lash on the good stuff without having to spot and cultivate decent yearlings. Newcastle Knights did something similar following the very bad Tinkler Years. You’d suggest Wests Tigers could benefit from a couple seasons of being really bad rather than just really ordinary.
Anyway.
Agenda Item #2 is the progress of Project X, The Milk, and the turning of water into milk, so to speak. And we can safely assure you that yes, it’s coming along.
Pretty well, infact.
Have raised $4k of the $10k required to publish a thousand books and post them about, and keep the show rolling.
In two weeks of solid action have knocked out four of the 20 chapters, and spoken to Peter McGrath (fullback Game #1), John McIntyre (former CEO, life member and Raiders heavy) and an old mate from school footy called Paul “Harry” House who played Junior Raiders and was the best schoolboy footy player I saw outside Brad Clyde who was something of a golden god.
So there you go.
And here we are.
And bye for now.