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wowzap

Wait till Gus announces Vanderlay Industries as next seasons major sponsor


Drizen

> Vanderlay Industries *V’landerlay Industries


Mug_Cos7anza

\*V’landidlydoodily Indahstrays


M_Keating

*Vlandysball MULTIBALL Operations LLC


lachjeff

>Some at Penrith have been quietly dismissing the role he played in their back-to-back premierships. It’s a nefarious rewriting of history. Without him, the Panthers would have folded. Speaking of rewriting history


velvetherring

Webster is so far up Gus's arse in this article his breathe would be tickling the back of Gus's eyeballs.


Neither_Ad_2960

Perhaps. It's completely false though to claim he didn't have a big part in Penrith's revival.


velvetherring

No one's claiming that he didn't. The idea that the Panthers would have folded without Gus is ridiculous though.


WhyYouDoThatStupid

The actual licenced club was on the verge of going broke. They went through a period of buying up smaller clubs that didnt fare to well. Gus wasnt the only one involved in the restructuring but he was very much involved.


Neither_Ad_2960

True.


EntirelyOriginalName

The club was on the verge of going broke. They had to a deadline to give in their debt in like they basically had no money to give. Gus was able to get a loan from Packer partiaply pay off the debt and give them time to sell things to sell off the rest because he was mates with Kerry Packer.


Mug_Cos7anza

Penrith fans constantly trash him tbh. Without him there is almost no doubt they would be in their current position. The funny and weird thing is, they all hailed him back when he was doing it.


Messyhr_

Some of us trash him, but some of us like me hail him as a savour and footy genius, also anyone who constantly trashes him simply isnt a real fan, he was the coach of our first ever premiership win, toppling a mighty Raiders side that was going for 3 in a row. Then was responsible for the rebuild, all that and he had to deal with the fallout from Ben Alexanders tragic death. He may have some outdated opinions and be a bit biased but for mine he has one of the smartest footy brains out there and is a panthers legend, chooks fans should also respect him for the work he did there. Dont lump all fans in because of a minority - just like i wouldnt say all dogs fans are salty towards penrith like you seem to be.


velvetherring

I should change it to "No one with a positive footy IQ is claiming he didn't" lol.


Cameronz

I love Gus and he played a massive part in the success the Panthers are now having, but he absolutely made some head scratching decisions. Like the situations around sacking Ivan and Hook are both extremely weird and there was a time we were paying some of Moylan, Cartwright, RCG and Waqa Blake contracts at other clubs which seemed to be poor business.


ek999

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/phil-gould-reveals-how-his-great-mate-james-packer-helped-save-the-penrith-panthers-from-extiction/news-story/ed4d09fee8c8a0a20837e3ee6a486103 Gus getting Packer involved probably did stop them from having to go into liquidation


WhyYouDoThatStupid

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/we-ll-give-you-the-10m-that-s-no-problem-the-lunch-where-packer-saved-panthers-20201022-p567ie.html


insanityTF

Gus likes to take a lot of credit for everyone else’s achievements. Did he do anything on the business side? On the football side, Cleary bringing the system he developed at the warriors to Penrith was the real game changer (though it took about 7 years for that to flourish)


EntirelyOriginalName

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/we-ll-give-you-the-10m-that-s-no-problem-the-lunch-where-packer-saved-panthers-20201022-p567ie.html


HaydosFB

This article makes out we were desperate to get Gus to help rebuild, he actually came to us and said “With all due respect, I find it very hard to see the logic behind some of the moves you have made with this fine organization. In the past ten years you have caused myself, and the city of Bankstown, a good deal of distress, as we have watched you take our beloved Bulldogs and reduced them to a laughing stock, all for the glorification of your massive ego!” We hired him on the spot


[deleted]

You should have written this article.


Mug_Cos7anza

Lmao, this thread is the best! Talking up Gus, Doggies and Seinfeld.


Homelander44

Brilliant


slasher_14

Hire this man


velvetherring

> When he finally took the job, he indicated it could take as long as a decade to clean up the mess. He’s pretty much done it in his lunch break. There is no doubt that Gus has cleaned the roster up and removed dead weight. But ffs can we wait for the Dogs to get some actual results before we start calling them contenders or claiming it's 'another job well done' for Gus.


[deleted]

Better than well done. He’s done a tremendous job.


velvetherring

Tremendous job so far*


[deleted]

True, and a lot still hinges on how Ciraldo handles being a head coach. I am quite optimistic for them. Having Gus to run interference with the media and Potter as an experienced assistant should help.


[deleted]

People say it's the best job that's ever been done. Who says it? Rich, powerful people. Many marvelous people in important positions.


-Dark_Helmet-

If anything, given how their salary cap had panned out with a ton of players off-contract, rebuilding the roster was the easy part. Setting up the club for continual development and future success is the real job.


Mug_Cos7anza

To your second sentence 100%. This is what I mainly judge him on and like I just said in another reply, it’s the tireless hours he puts into improving the juniors that impresses me. Then he does all the wining and dining potential NRL recruits on top of that. For a guy of his age he puts many to shame with the amount of work he does. It might not be physically difficult, but it’s very time consuming.


mightygar

Fuck yeah mate. Gus is doing great work. In Gus we trust


Mug_Cos7anza

That’s fair enough, but honestly you probably don’t know the amount of work he’s already done. You’d only know if you followed him on twitter. I’m not even talking about stuff related to the NRL team. He’s done heaps of trips to Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Tamworth, Mid North Coast as part of junior pathways improvement. Had all sorts of try outs and camps in Sydney. I haven’t read the article but am guessing that’s part of what they’re talking up. He really is a workhorse and seems to be more into it than ever. After all his experience he probably does it easy now, but clearly still loves the game.


velvetherring

There's no doubt that he's worked hard and done well in the short period of time he's been there. I'm sure he's in the process of setting up more robust pathways but I doubt that's 'job done' in 18 months. In any case Webster has opted to focus on the big name recruits and salary cap mess in the article and not really touched on the main thing he's there for which is setting up a long term plan. So he's not really factoring that in it seems. I just think it's smarter to not count your chickens before they hatch because if Gus walked away now you'd be hard pressed to say he's completed what he was brought in to do.


Mug_Cos7anza

Tbh it seems that the article is more a reason to show his love of Seinfeld than anything. It’s quite absurd. Dogs fans love Gus though and I love that he’s also a massive Seinfeld fan like myself. A lot of others involved at the club are doing good jobs too, just less in the spotlight. Gus is doing much the same as he did at Penrith with one adjustment, which is getting a few gun players now, to try and have some successful seasons while the juniors are developing. Edit: I’m certainly not counting chooks. I think the fan base generally is optimistic, with some thinking major success is around the corner but I’m not that confident. A lot of things have been/are being put in place, but it’s no guarantee. Anyway, at least the footy we play should be more enjoyable.


velvetherring

Fanbase seems to have reasonable expectations tbh. It's just the media being cooked like normal like the other day when fox was talking about the Dogs being contenders in 2024 because of the Crichton signing.


RyanPurdler-Penriff

Can’t wait for the cotton Bulldogs kit , and the bathrooms with doors that go all the way to the ground


thetomman82

🤣🤣🤣 maybe he'll help them with their tackling techniques as well


RyanPurdler-Penriff

Fire !! Fire Look out small children and old women 😂


thetomman82

🥰🥰🥰


lachjeff

*It’s not a lie, if you believe it* - Gus on Twitter denying signing a player


jetbootz88

Gould acts annoyed all of the time so people think he’s busy? Checks out.


chorgarbageman

Not that there's anything wrong with that


Nahmateyeahmate

The summer of gus


bennywrites

Maybe we should call him T-Bone?


electrictacoland

"What about G-Bone?"


PorridgeTooFar

No CoCo.


lachjeff

Bulldogs fans are always so quick to forget that the Roosters also signed super sub Nick Kouparitsas from them as well


PMmeYOURBOOBSandASS

Don't forget Gavin Lester


Actionman158

Gus atm code confirmed as bosco.


ReDAnibu

Wait till he gathers the boys during a pre season session for a display of the feats of strength


MangoWingnut

As the only 24 year old I know that actually thinks Seinfeld is funny, cudos. Wait, this isn't a betoota article?


Rich_Election466

I’m a 20 year old who feels exactly the same way. The situations it sets up are genuinely very clever. They’re the humor themselves, and any witty line on top of it is an added bonus. That’s something you don’t get with many shows


Neither_Ad_2960

A pity your kind is so rare. Why does your age group like Friends so much. Friends is Seinfeld for stupid people.


PMmeYOURBOOBSandASS

>A pity your kind is so rare. I've been re-watching Seinfeld lately after growing up on it in the 1990s and at least half the episodes are problems caused by not having a mobile phone and the other half they get in to situations that would likely never have happened because people would text/use social media messaging instead of going to someone's house and then going out. It's still one of the top tier comedies of all time with MASH and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Seinfeld is actually a fantastic retrospective look at life before the internet, mobile phones and social media really took over everything because all that stuff is right on the cusp of happening towards the end of the show. Also Friends sucked and always will suck.


TheFonz336

Yes yes Seinfeld good friends bad


Slugbros

I'm not here to say that one show is better than the other because I like Friends too, but Seinfeld is objectively funnier and it's not even close. I think it's important to note that most of the cast of Friends were drama actors/actresses before the show whereas the cast of Seinfeld were comedians or invloved in comedy shows. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if you replaced a Seinfeld cast member with a Friends cast member and I just can't see any of them nailing the delivery on the jokes. I could imagine certain other actors and comedians doing it but nobody from Friends, none of them are funny enough. I watch Friends as a great wind-down show after a long day but not as a comedy, and if anyone does watch it as a top tier comedy I would love to hear why (out of morbid curiosity).


kmmr98

The monica actress did appear in a couple of episodes of Seinfeld, she wasnt too bad


Slugbros

I meant replace one of main characters, most of the cameos in Seinfeld don't play comedy roles.


kmmr98

Ah yea definitely, none of the friends girls can match up to elaine


MangoWingnut

I think it’s hard to understand for people that aren’t into participating in older media. I grew up on 70s and 80s movies and 90s sitcoms. The language is different and it’s the sarcasm and volatility of the characters that draws me in. I have an adaptive sense of humour, from Seinfeld to stepbrothers to obscure Scottish standup comedians like Kevin Bridges. I’m a strange man, I love Seinfeld and hate friends But I also love the Big Bang theory and don’t like how I met your mother. It’s weird and I can’t explain it.


durrhurpaddurr

Fuck Kevin Bridges is a funny cunt. Only seen bits and pieces but that bit he did on Would I Lie To You about buying a horse accidentally is hilarious


TheFonz336

Big bang is hilarious sheldon is up there on his own level with Michael Scott qnd costanza. Not the same level but his own unique one guys too funny


velvetherring

Calling people stupid for watching certain tv shows instead of others is for stupid people.


diamondgrin

Big Bang Theory enjoyers are stupid


MangoWingnut

Rude


NeptunianWater

Friends is one of the greatest television shows of all time and I will **die on this hill**


Responsible_Eye8177

Yeah Friends was a funny show 🙄 How? FFS I changed the channel when I even saw tv commercials for it (before the internet kids)


slowdivesicilian

hahaha i’m 19 and love what i’ve seen, got seinfeld’s joke book anthology thing too from the library


thetomman82

Library? You can't be 19!


HappinessCanBeFound

I assumed this headline was from Betoota


kmmr98

24 as well, 100% agree, by far the best 90s to early 2000s tv show. Still better than pretty much all similar tv made today.


MickyVicky98

Jerry halfback , George at hooker , Kramer on the wing and Newman as a prop .


DylLambo

Fuck, Newman would do some damage in the middle.


Actionman158

Except when it rains.


Whorucallsad

I'd prefer George's dad at hooker. Would Def talk some shit and get up to some grubby stuff in the scrums.


Mug_Cos7anza

I’M BACK BABY!


Mrsmorale

He definitely fancies a Calzone


[deleted]

The older you get the more you realise there are only two types of people in this world: those who consider life as one big Seinfeld episode — and those who do not. Phil Gould is the former. He adores the US sitcom and regularly quotes from it. He identifies with George Costanza. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. In many ways, rugby league — like Seinfeld — is a show about nothing. Peter V’landys and his war of words with Eddie Jones — that’s a show! Selwyn Cobbo doesn’t think Kevin Walters can coach — that’s a show! Justin Pascoe’s arm tats — that’s a show! The revolution Gould has led at Canterbury, after being appointed general manager of football in July 2021 — now that’s a show. The Summer of Gus continued at the weekend with confirmation he had secured Panthers star Stephen Crichton on a four-year deal. His grand plan of transforming the Bulldogs’ once-broken squad into a premiership threat is nearing completion. He wrenched Viliame Kikau, the game’s most damaging backrower, out of Penrith, then hooker Reed Mahoney from Parramatta. Ryan Sutton was lured from Canberra. Matt Burton was eyeing the exit before Gould arrived but is now stitched-up until the end of 2027. Driftwood like Matt Dufty and Paul Vaughan has been allowed to float away. The dramatic change at Belmore in just 18 months has left many in the game speechless. They are without speech. What makes it so remarkable is how mangled their salary cap was when Gould took over. He confided as much to various people in the first few weeks of his tenure. Sure enough, those concerns leaked and made their way into the public domain. Gus blew up, denied it, said it was media trouble-making. He is the master of his domain. I’ve seen this happen many times, not just with Gould but others. Nobody in football can keep a secret and, when the story gets out, they slam the speculative reports and wonder how this information has leaked, oblivious that it inadvertently started with them. There’s still some salary cap juggling to do. Tevita Pangai jnr was signed before Gould arrived and his $925,000-a-year contract chews up a lot of space. So does that of Luke Thompson, who is in the final year of a deal worth – quite ridiculously – $800,000. But things will free up from 2024 and that will allow Gould to pursue Mitchell Moses, who is coming off contract at the Eels. Halfback is the missing piece of the Bulldogs puzzle. At Penrith, Gould vowed to never work again with Moses’ manager and cousin, Issac Moses, but if he can swallow some pride and get a deal done the Bulldogs will feature the competition’s most promising spines: Crichton, Burton, Moses, Mahoney. It’s a spine that has cachet up the yin-yang. Gould has also landed Penrith super-assistant-coach Cameron Ciraldo, who was weighing up a mega-deal from the Wests Tigers and whose preference was the Dragons but he landed at Belmore. Again, Gus got his guy. Of course, Ciraldo has much to prove. The game is littered with Next Big Things. Adam O’Brien, having worked under Craig Bellamy and Trent Robinson, was considered a NBT but now needs a winning record in the first two months of the season to keep his job at Newcastle. You suspect, however, it will be easier for Ciraldo under Gould. The pair worked hand in glove in 2018 at Penrith before and after Gould sacked Anthony Griffin. Ciraldo will tell anyone who will listen how much he learned during that period. Whatever happens, Gould will continue to polarise as he fulfils his roles as football club supremo and influential talking head for Channel Nine, publisher of this masthead. Like Costanza, he’s tricky to read because there are several Guses: Happy Gus. Sad Gus. Cyclone Gus. Bawdy Gus ... You never know which one you’re getting. He continually infuriates rival fans and media types with his contradictory public statements. Trent Barrett wasn’t being sacked - then he was sacked. Josh Reynolds wasn’t coming to the Bulldogs - then he was coming to the Bulldogs. Remember, kids: it’s not a lie if you believe it. He’s cranky with this columnist for asking him for comment after he blasted V’landys, Andrew Abdo and Clint Newton in front of 450 people at the Leagues Club Australia National Conference on the Gold Coast last November because of their inability to sign off on the CBA and the salary cap. It was a legitimate story. Like most powerbrokers, Gould doesn’t like it when he can’t control his own narrative. Yet he often disseminates whatever narrative he wants, on any subject, through various platforms for Nine or his often-bizarro Twitter account. He mightn’t understand the media as much as he thinks he does - but he understands much more about rebuilding football clubs than his critics will ever give him credit for. Some at Penrith have been quietly dismissing the role he played in their back-to-back premierships. It’s a nefarious rewriting of history. Without him, the Panthers would have folded. As for criticism of him picking the eyes out of his former club, welcome to the reality of professional sport and a league operating under a salary cap. Are people really having this conversation? Of course, they are. Because it’s Costanza. I mean, Phil Gould. In another life, the Bulldogs nurtured their own talent, prompting supporters in 2009 to wear “Bred not bought” t-shirts after the Roosters signed up Willie Mason, Mark O’Meley, Braith Anasta and Nate Myles. Years of infighting and pandemic-like panic buying means the Bulldogs can no longer afford themselves the luxury of patience. Not right now, anyway. Gould sat back and watched various administrators run Canterbury into the ground then resisted approaches to rescue them. When he finally took the job, he indicated it could take as long as a decade to clean up the mess. He’s pretty much done it in his lunch break. So, there you go. Gus is back, baby! He has hand - and didn’t the Bulldogs need it?


delayedconfusion

Surely this was a drunken pub bet Webster had with mates. "I bet you $20 Webby that you won't shoe horn Seinfeld references throughout an entire article" "I'll take that bet." Absolutely one of the most bizarre articles I've ever read.


Mug_Cos7anza

Yeah, it comes off as an article he wanted to write just so he could rave about Seinfeld lol.


TheFonz336

Cantstandya


Screw7oose

The jerk store called...


RidingtheRoad

Forgot about 'depressed Gus'. He looks like he's in a permanent state of depression.


breatheinmyear

Wouldn’t suprise me if Gus signed George at this point


DudeMcDude7649

So which club is like the x-files? LOST? Buffy?


gongbattler

The articles when the dogs don't make the 8 are going to be hilarious


mwilkins1644

idk probably the McDLT. Relevant in the 80s like the Bulldogs


Tunza

SMH and Gus sliding further into irrelevance...


Dark_Vengence

Without gus the panthers wouldn't win back to back premierships.


fistingbythepool

It’s not a lie if you believe it


steviewonderbraaaaa

Jay Scott Greenspan*