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In a stroke of political genius the New Age "philosopher" and sometime coach of the London Broncos, Tony Rea, sacked the club's best player from the captaincy last week. Rea replaced Gower with Tony Clubb, a young prop forward who rarely plays because of injury proneness.
The result is that Craig Gower, a talented and dedicated scrum half, who has played for NSW and Australia many times, has decided to return to the NRL immediately to play for Newcastle Knights, even though he is not guaranteed a starting place in the team. Another result is that London Broncos will have no playmaker and are guaranteed to retain last place for the rest of this season. The club, which is losing fans at a rapid rate, may even fold before season's end.
The man who hired Rea is the club's owner David Hughes. This was despite the fact that Rea had been removed as coach of London by former owner Ian Lenagan in 2006 because of Rea's inability to perform the coaching role successfully.
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In a stroke of political genius the New Age "philosopher" and sometime coach of the London Broncos, Tony Rea, sacked the club's best player from the captaincy last week. Rea replaced Gower with Tony Clubb, a young prop forward who rarely plays because of injury proneness.
The result is that Craig Gower, a talented and dedicated scrum half, who has played for NSW and Australia many times, has decided to return to the NRL immediately to play for Newcastle Knights, even though he is not guaranteed a starting place in the team. Another result is that London Broncos will have no playmaker and are guaranteed to retain last place for the rest of this season. The club, which is losing fans at a rapid rate, may even fold before season's end.
The man who hired Rea is the club's owner David Hughes. This was despite the fact that Rea had been removed as coach of London by former owner Ian Lenagan in 2006 because of Rea's inability to perform the coaching role successfully.
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For those who missed it:
According to the BBC, last Saturday evening, after the London Broncos surrendered a 30-16 lead and ended up with a 30-30 draw with Castleford, the head coach of London Broncos, Tony Rea uttered the following sentences:
"We have had a really progressive week and I am confident there are some good times ahead for this group."
"I was delighted with our effort and we were fantastic all the way through."
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Tony Clubb plays second row or centre, is an England International, currently being chased by St.Helens.
He's also nearly 26, he's played 147 Super League games in 7 and a half seasons, that's 20 games per season pretty much, and includes the first two seasons when he was a teenager playing 18 games in his first 2 seasons.
Since then he's played
2012: 24
2011: 27 (ever present)
2010: 27 (ever present)
2009: 21
2008: 23
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| Quote ="jonny the leyther"Tony Clubb plays second row or centre, is an England International, currently being chased by St.Helens.
He's also nearly 26, he's played 147 Super League games in 7 and a half seasons, that's 20 games per season pretty much, and includes the first two seasons when he was a teenager playing 18 games in his first 2 seasons.
Since then he's played
2012: 24
2011: 27 (ever present)
2010: 27 (ever present)
2009: 21
2008: 23'"
Clubb has been much less present in 2013.
In any case he is not a patch on Craig Gower, who has played his heart out for the team in one and a half seasons, and has endured the fact that some members of his team are not of professional quality.
Rea effectively humiliated the best player the club has had in years.
One can speculate that there may have been ill feeling, or unpleasant words exchanged between Rea and Gower, and that Rea was showing who is the boss. If so Rea's malice has effectively wrecked the club's playing ability, and perhaps doomed its very existence. |
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Maybe Rea knew Gower wanted to leave and maybe Gower had asked to go to the knoghts hence Rea dropping him as captain.
I find it hard to believe Gower got dropped on Saturday and managed to engineer a move by Tuesday unless wheels were already turning
Big loss either way but a player like Gower will be in demand
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Do you really think Gower would find a club in the NRL within a week of losing the captaincy?
It reads more to me that he was approached by the Knights, asked to be released early from his contract and as a result of that Rea chose Clubb as the new captain knowing Gower was on his way.
Even just listening to the muppets at Sky, they've been going on about how Gower has been linked to the NRL and asking for a release from his contract for the past couple of weeks.
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| Excellent news.
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I said at the time of his appointment that the reappointment of Rea was a disaster waiting to happen and nothing ive seen since then has changed my opinion.
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Gower's manager could have easily found an interested club within a week. These managers are permanently on the phone to coaches and CEOs for various members of their stables. Nothing has been signed yet. They are still negotiating.
It is odd that he would go to Newcastle, which already has several players contending for the halves positions. It smells to me like an "any port ina storm" decision
But if in fact Gower wanted to leave before he was dropped as captain, it still reflects on the quality of the club and the coach. He tried his heart out every week and yet he was surrounded by several players who could not or would not tackle.
The club is built on rotten foundations of incompetence and lack of professionalism at every level.
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His manager has been touting him around the NRL for months. Only injury to gidley has now given him a sniff. He's a standing joke in this part of the world.
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| Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"The club is built on rotten foundations of incompetence and lack of professionalism at every level.'"
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35yo Aussie to be replaced by 20yo Englishman. Positive news.
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oh dear more bad news for london losing one of their star players.... at least you have a nice chunk of salary cap to play withn now.
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| Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE" The club is built on rotten foundations of incompetence and lack of professionalism at every level.'"
And people like Gower would help that situation? (Put nicely) He's not exactly the most stable influence in the world  |
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| Quote ="Bovrick"Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE" The club is built on rotten foundations of incompetence and lack of professionalism at every level.'"
And people like Gower would help that situation? (Put nicely) He's not exactly the most stable influence in the world
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What is the basis for your wild allegation against Craig Gower's character and personality? His behaviour 10 years ago? |
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| Quote ="brearley84"oh dear more bad news for london losing one of their star players.... at least you have a nice chunk of salary cap to play withn now.'"
To use on whom?
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| Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"To use on whom?
No quality player will come to London now that Gower has gone, especially if the player first talks to Gower about the quality of administration and coaching at the club, and the quality of players whom he would be playing with.'"
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| Quote ="brearley84".... at least you have a nice chunk of salary cap to play withn now.'"
cost cuting is rife at the club......we will finish last this year,last next (if we exist) and be gone by 2015 unless Hughes,McKay and Rea are all replaced soon. In fact, just get rid of all three of them and see how the clubs drift.....I assure you it would be no worse than it is at present. |
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Come on Jean, why not just report Rea to operation yewtree. You must have something against him!
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London just seems to be rotten to the core and i think this has been coming for some time. Seems to be a combination of poor coaching (i include mcdermott in this), average Aussies and average players from the north treating it as a holiday camp. Seems they need an owner and a coach willing to lay down the law and get guys in willing to do a job. There's about 3/4 dependable players there (Clubb, Sarginson, the young winger) but they're on a hiding to nothing at the moment - if these guys up and leave for other clubs this is going to leave Broncos up a creek...
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| Quote ="Madderzahatter".... this is going to leave Broncos up a creek...'"
Pay attention. We lost our paddle in about 2008 and we capsised in 2010.
I've just asked this question on the London board....with regard to Gower's players registration, Do they still hold it?
[urlhttp://www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/4678.php[/url
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| Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"To use on whom?
No quality player will come to London now that Gower has gone, especially if the player first talks to Gower about the quality of administration and coaching at the club, and the quality of players whom he would be playing with.'"
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