Cheika says no to Force

[blue_harvest]

I don't think we can jump to conclusions just yet. Yes, RugbyWA has made some stuff ups and have not always gone about things the right way, but as others have said, there are no sources, no quotes and no evidence the back up anything in the article.

Maybe i'm just an optimist but I think it's best to wait for an actual media release from RugbyWA before making conclusions.

Here's hoping it's all just dodgy press!

[SNOB]

B H I think we are alll hope you are right but we all know that RWA are great at stuff ups.

[Sheikh]

Godwin, who played for Australia in this year's Junior World Cup, is in the Force's extended player squad.

The club is considering offering him a full contract

WTF?!?!?
FFS sign him now!
Make it a five year deal.
Get some kind of good news out there!

That could mean that the club and Godwin are discussing the details, or even that they have come to an agrement and they are awaiting the ARU top-up/sanctioning the contract. You know, like Genia!

[Elf1]

Godwin, who played for Australia in this year's Junior World Cup, is in the Force's extended player squad.

The club is considering offering him a full contract

WTF?!?!?
FFS sign him now!
Make it a five year deal.
Get some kind of good news out there!

Could not agree more Burgs, sign this kid up now FFS

[SinBin]

Godwin, who played for Australia in this year's Junior World Cup, is in the Force's extended player squad. The club is considering offering him a full contract
WTF?!?!?
FFS sign him now!
Make it a five year deal.
Get some kind of good news out there!

His stock just went up a lot after Saturday's great performance.

[Stone Cold]

His stock just went up a lot after Saturday's great performance.

Yeah - he really looked the goods in the short time he was on. Would be nice to offer him a contract but it'd be nice to have a coach to endorse it as well...

[Naggs]

Yeah - he really looked the goods in the short time he was on. Would be nice to offer him a contract but it'd be nice to have a coach to endorse it as well...

The longer we don't hear anything from RWA the more and more likely these reports about Cheika seem true.

[Alison]

I sent a message to the Force on Twitter today and asked them to put out a media release or something in response to what the likes of Harris, Growden et al have been writing for days now re our new head coach.

This was their reply:

"The process to appoint a coach is ongoing and we hope [emphasis added] to have an announcement in the near future"

Hope? They hope to have an announcement? And what does "in the near future" mean?? Next week, next month, next year, next millenium?

I know they are between a rock and a hard place in terms of confidentiality etc etc, and that they are powerless to stop the rabid eastern states hacks writing whatever rubbish they like about us, but surely to goodness they can give us, the members of this damn club, a crumb of comfort about all this???

[jombi]

Near future? That's as bad as "it's done when it's done".

At least they didn't put "Thanks for your ongoing patience" at the end!

[GIGS20]

I know they are between a rock and a hard place in terms of confidentiality etc etc, and that they are powerless to stop the rabid eastern states hacks writing whatever rubbish they like about us, but surely to goodness they can give us, the members of this damn club, a crumb of comfort about all this???

The problem is that their major sponsor (the ARU) has mandated that they say nothing about contracting until the contract has been ratified by the ARU. That basically means, to respond in any way to this sort of hack journalism puts them in breach of this requirement and in danger of the contract not being ratified.

It's lose lose unless you're Tim Horan!

[shasta]

It's lose lose unless you're Tim Horan!

.....speaking of sculduggery; wonder if Grub is onto something with his sauce about the province frauding player payments? I'm actually more interested in that than our current saga.

Long as it's not us of course.
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[onions]

So the article says that they couldn't agree to financial terms.If thats the case, then our board must have offered him the job but for less money than he asked for.That doesn't make sense.It's not as though they were buying a t.v. from Harvey Norman's or something-trying to knock a couple of hundred off the asking price and then refusing to buy when the saleman won't budge,even though it's exactly what you want.It has to be bullshit-surely.

[jono]

I sent a message to the Force on Twitter today and asked them to put out a media release or something in response to what the likes of Harris, Growden et al have been writing for days now re our new head coach.

This was their reply:

"The process to appoint a coach is ongoing and we hope [emphasis added] to have an announcement in the near future"

Hope? They hope to have an announcement? And what does "in the near future" mean?? Next week, next month, next year, next millenium?

I know they are between a rock and a hard place in terms of confidentiality etc etc, and that they are powerless to stop the rabid eastern states hacks writing whatever rubbish they like about us, but surely to goodness they can give us, the members of this damn club, a crumb of comfort about all this???

sorry ali. but i saw that tweet and there was no emphasis on the "hope" it was just a typical statement from the PR people, we hope that... we are glad that... we can take positives from... etc.

and as always, the "in the near future" is as soon as possible. because why would they hold that information back from us and the rest of the world, i.e sponsors.

[Alison]

.....speaking of sculduggery; wonder if Grub is onto something with his sauce about the province frauding player payments? I'm actually more interested in that than our current saga.

Long as it's not us of course.
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Frauding how Shasta? I love a bit of skulduggery - makes me think of Fagin in Oliver Twist

[travelling_gerry]

Cant be us, with the local clubs non cooperation treaty with RWA I doubt a deal like that could be struck. Look to poofy blue colours instead.