Our Billionaire is on the verge of going belly up, and apparently money isn't the answer to putting together a great team, but apart from that things are going great.

He obviously meant for the return of the Survivor series, the inaugural one was won by a POM.

You dislike Manly? I always thought it was a seperate place, but it's just another part of Sydney as far as I can tell from googlemaps. Learn summat jeden tag.

Do most/many NRL teams rely on wealthy benefactors?

Here in the forlorn North of England (I'm in the Midlands actually but that ruins the literary reference), most SL teams do. They're all cooler than Russell Crowe, at least.

Match abandoned due to heavy sulking, I seem to recall. Or did I just give it to someone in a fit of unseemly pique?

There was nothing wrong with that last challenge.

Manly is in the area of Sydney known as the 'North shore' (north of the Harbour). It's where the rich people live, so everyone hates them.

The name actually comes from the first Govenor of NSW getting speared by Aboriginals there, and naming the area 'Manly beach" because of the way they stood up to him and his armed soldiers.



The Knights have been a self funded team till this year, and have always been a poor cousin on a tight budget.

This year we voted 93% to 7% to hand the side over to mining billionaire Nathan Tinkler - a former prop forward for the Muswellbrook Rams and the richest Australian under 40.

He employed Wayne Bennett on a millon dollar a year contract.

He brought back local players Willie Mason, Danny Buderus, Timana Tahu, Kade Snowden and some imports like Darius Boyd, Adam Cuthbertson, etc etc.

He also employed the best trainers, built the best gyms and doubled the coaching staff.



The result of that has been we look like finishing 10th, and last year we finished 8th.

Are you familiar with the consoling concept of the 'transitional year'? We find it helps.

Transitional year it is.



We have got rid of coaches like Graig Sandercock and players like Con Mika, Cory Paterson, Ervan Tuimarvae, Shannon McDonnell, Steve Southern, Antonio Kaufusi, and a dozen others and replaced them with rep standard players and the best coach in the world, so hopefully something clicks next year.

last time i was in manly it had a great fish and chip shop is it still their and is it has good i am talking when i was their 1992

Only been there half a dozen times, and i go straight to the football ground.

It's a beach side suburb, so probably has fish and chips still, but i doubt they catch the fish local these days.

I've found it. Don't worry, my lips are sealed.



I'll have a proper read up about it later when I get home.

Come on, tell.

It'll be about model boats.