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November 22 Rumours persist that Anthony Mundine is bound for a return to Rugby League signing with the Parramatta club won't go away. More http://www.rleague.com/newsa/2000/11-2.shtml#22mundine November 21 The dispossed fought the re-possesed on Sunday as the un-dead Rabittohs took on the re-born Oldham Roughyed's. South Sydney, fielding a team drawn from the Souths Junior League gave Oldham a tough pre-season workout in front of 2,000+ fans at Boundary Park. Oldham raced into an 8-0 lead within 15 minutes, through a try and two goals from left centre, Pat Rich. However, Souths pulled back through unconverted tries by centres, Michael Lyons and Craig Carrington, to level the scores at half-time. More http://www.rleague.com/newsa/2000/11-2.shtml#20oldham November 20 A confidentiality clause in a pay TV rights offer by Channel 7 owner Kerry Stokes to the National Rugby League may void the deal, following publication of the details. Strict confidentiality provisions surrounded the offer, reportedly $250 million over five years, for access to five live games a week on Seven's pay TV arm, C7. More http://www.leaguehq.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/20/leaguewc3.html November 19 National Rugby League clubs have answered the public and media backlash over the treatment of South Sydney by reiterating their support for the 14-team competition. But not all clubs signed the document, which was released yesterday by NRL club council chairman and Parramatta chief executive Denis Fitzgerald. Sydney Roosters chose to abstain. More http://www.leaguehq.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/19/leaguewc1.html THIRTEEN NRL chief executives signed an open letter backing the future of the 14-team competition. The two-page letter to media outlets and the public is a show of support for the besieged NRL. More http://www.foxsports.com.au/common/story_page/0,5000,1430966%5E5927%5E%5Enbv,00.html November 18 The Seven Network is reported to have made an audacious bid for control of rugby league's pay TV rights. The network's pay TV sports arm, C7, has offered $250 million for the pay television rights to National Rugby League matches for the next five years, The Daily Telegraph reported today. http://au.sports.yahoo.com/sports/20001118/aapleague/974498394-202031112.html http://www.excite.com.au/sport/nrl/news/story/aap/20001118/10/sports/league-tv-rugby_league.inp http://www.foxsports.com.au/common/story_page/0,5000,1428154%5E5927%5E%5Enbv,00.html November 17 NRL chief executive David Moffett held a secret meeting with South Sydney president George Piggins yesterday morning, The Daily Telegraph has learned. Although details of the meeting remain confidential, the pair will talk again. More http://www.foxsports.com.au/common/story_page/0,5000,1396509%5E5927%5E%5Enbv,00.html Former coach Phil Gould will be a part of the 2GB rugby league team next year after switching from 2UE. Gould's contract with UE ended last week and after much consideration he has decided to change stations. It is believed that the offer from GB was to good to refuse. Gould will be a part of the 2GB call on Saturday and will take part in the talkback areas on Sunday. He will also be a part of the nightly sports show on GB, which starts at 6:00pm AEDT. More http://www.leagueaustralia.nitemyste.com/main/news.html#gould2GB2 November 16 The rumour-mill has been working overtime this week. Has anyone heard any of these? More in 20:Nil file:///C:/my%20sites%20old/My%20Sites/Homesteads/southsydney/Page910.html November 15 The National Rugby League should be banned from using community ovals and reserves until Souths are reinstated to the competition, the Local Government Association's annual conference urged NSW councils yesterday. More More More http://www.leaguehq.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/15/leaguewc2.html http://www.sportcentral.com.au/sport/owa/news_util.run_html? http://www.leagueaustralia.nitemyste.com/main/news.html#tigersground Wests Tigers may be forced to play all their home matches at Leichhardt Oval next season after the South Sydney saga threatened to further undermine the National Rugby League. More http://www.sportal.com.au/league.asp?i=news&id=4818 THE South Sydney faithful are rallying to the cause. In one of the biggest protest marches seen in Sydney in recent years, 80,000 people filled the streets last weekend. More file:///C:/my%20sites%20old/My%20Sites/Homesteads/southsydney/News1511002.html November 14 New South Wales premier Bob Carr has joined the South Sydney fight calling on the National Rugby League to reinstate the Rabbitohs into first grade. Carr, the member for Maroubra in the heart of South Sydney territory, said Sunday's street rally which attracted 80,000 people proved the NRL must take notice of the game's supporters. More http://www.sportal.com.au/league.asp?i=news&id=4779 New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has called on the National Rugby League to reinstate South Sydney into the top grade competition. More http://news.ninemsn.com.au/sport/story_3241.asp http://au.sports.yahoo.com/sports/20001113/aapleague/974107986-2349531150.html South Sydney boss George Piggins will leave it to members to decide if the Rabbitohs are returned to the New South Wales rugby league first division competition. While Piggins is personally against the red and greens playing in the lower grade ranks, he will put it to a vote at the next annual general meeting if no hope remains of Souths being reinstated in the National Rugby League. More More http://au.sports.yahoo.com/sports/20001113/aapleague/974104085-873111553.html http://www.excite.com.au/sport/nrl/news/story/aap/20001113/19/sports/league-souths-rugby_league.inp An Aboriginal land council with estimated assets of $70 million will consider backing South Sydney's bid to be reinstated in the National Rugby League. Members of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council want to help the club that has given generations of Aborigines the chance to play top-level football. More More http://www.smh.com.au/news/0011/14/pageone/pageone11.html http://www.leaguehq.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/15/leaguewc3.html BIG BUSINESS TRIUMPHS AGAIN In a world ruled by big business and money, battling South Sydney never stood a chance. A rugby league club borne out of Sydney's inner-city streets and built on the sweat of working class men was always going to struggle at a time when money carried more weight than history and pride. And the Federal Court has effectively declared the 93-year-old Rabbitohs' have passed their used-by-date as it tightened business' grip on sport. In doing so, it slapped the face of a legion of rugby league fans, who had grown up basking in the glory of the game's most successful and longest-standing club. http://www.sportal.com.au/league.asp?i=news&id=4406 Local governments got behind South Sydney's push to be readmitted into the National Rugby League today by encouraging councils not to renew leases on NRL venues. More More http://www.ozleague.com/home.asp?ngref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Esouthsydney%2Ehomestead%2Ecom%2FPage15%7Ens4%2Ehtml http://www.sportcentral.com.au/sport/owa/news_util.run_html?p_html_file=RGL_view&p_param_names=c_p_id&p_param_values=TXT2220147 http://www.ozleague.com/home.asp?ngref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Esouthsydney%2Ehomestead%2Ecom%2FPage15%7Ens4%2Ehtml Souths deserve better than a flurry of misleading falsehoods. http://www.leaguehq.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/14/leaguewc3.html The bitter battle in the aftermath to the closure of the Auckland Warriors could provide an NRL lifeline to South Sydney. Moffett said he hoped to meet later this week with Souths president George Piggins. More http://www.leaguehq.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/14/leaguewc4.html Over 80,000 people including myself with my Canterbury flag turned up to the Save Our Game rally in Sydney yesterday in a great show of support for South Sydney's reinstatement back into the major premiership but most of all a very clear message to the NRL and News Limited that fans have had a gutful of their mismanagement and the NRL and News ruining Rugby League. More http://www.rleague.com/newsa/2000/11-1.shtml#13souths November 13 SYDNEY - Up to 80,000 people descended on Sydney's streets yesterday to lend support to South Sydney rugby league club in a compelling display of people power. More More More http://newsdesk.bigpond.com/20001112/LeagueSouths.asp http://www.sportal.com.au/league.asp?i=news&id=4733 http://www.sportcentral.com.au/sport/owa/news_util.run_html?p_html_file=RGL_view&p_param_names=c_p_id&p_param_values=TXT2220078 http://au.sports.yahoo.com/sports/20001113/aapleague/974059978-3020865542.html http://www.excite.com.au/sport/nrl/news/story/aap/20001113/07/sports/league-souths-rugby_league.inp Departing president Henry Morris today threatened to switch South Sydney Juniors to rugby union if the Rabbitohs' senior team was not reinstated in the National Rugby League competition. More http://www.sportcentral.com.au/sport/owa/news_util.run_html?p_html_file=RGL_view&p_param_names=c_p_id&p_param_values=TXT2220100 The mood of the people suggested yesterday's South Sydney protest rally was more like a general vote of no confidence in the NRL. More http://www.leaguehq.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/13/leaguewc6.html South Sydney Juniors rugby league club president Henry Morris today threatened to switch his organisation to rugby union if the Rabbitohs senior team was not reinstated to the National Rugby League competition. More http://www.leaguehq.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/13/leaguewc8.html South Sydney legend John Sattler has called for the National Rugby League board to resign. More http://www.leagueaustralia.nitemyste.com/main/news.html#sattler Over 80,000 people turn up to the Save Our Game rally. http://www.rleague.com/clubs/southsydney.html Former Rugby League great John Satler has called for the National Rugby League (NRL) administration to resign because of the bad state of the game. http://news.looksmart.com.au/synd-oz/news/news.jsp?category=Sport&article=31818 Supporters of South Sydney rugby league club's ongoing fight for inclusion in the National Rugby League have gathered in Redfern for a march into the city centre. More http://www.abc.net.au/news/sport/rugbyleague/2000/11/item20001112123900_1.htm A human sea of red and green flooded three blocks of George Street in the inner-city, from the Town Hall rallying point down to Goulburn Street and heard speeches which included a supportive message from Prime Minister John Howard. More file:///C:/my%20sites%20old/My%20Sites/Homesteads/southsydney/News1311002.html SOUTH SYDNEY said they will stage protests throughout next season's NRL competition unless they are reinstated. More file:///C:/my%20sites%20old/My%20Sites/Homesteads/southsydney/News1311001.html It seems so obvious, but since South Sydney's latest defeat it seems to have almost been forgotten. More http://www.leaguehq.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/13/leaguewc7.html November 12 Tens of thousands of people packed the streets of Sydney today to rally for South Sydney and the future of rugby league. More http://www.ozleague.com/home.asp South Sydney Juniors rugby league club president Henry Morris today threatened to switch his organisation to rugby union if the Rabbitohs senior team was not reinstated to the National Rugby Leaguec ompetition. More http://au.sports.yahoo.com/sports/20001112/aapleague/974009269-3020881974.html Former Australian captain Laurie Daley has penned a letter of hope for Souths supporters which good friend Phil Gould will read aloud at the "Save the Game" rally today. More http://www.smh.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/12/leaguewc5.html Its a pity that Mr Daley and his SuperLeague buddies contributed to the current position of Souths, Balmain, Norths, Wests , Illlarawarra, Manly and the list goes on ... Ed More in 20:Nil file:///C:/my%20sites%20old/My%20Sites/Homesteads/southsydney/Page909.html Sign of the times: Two South Sydney supporters express their feelings at the way rugby league is heading. More http://www.smh.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/12/leaguewc6.html Nine and Foxtel have launched a massive bid for the AFL, prompting an immediate inquiry by NRL boss David Moffett to Nine and News Ltd about the future of rugby league on free-to-air television. http://www.smh.com.au/league/worldcup/2000/11/12/leaguewc2.html More than 40,000 fans are expected to attend the rally beginning at Redfern Oval on Sunday and has been organized to attract support for the fightback campaign. More http://www.sportal.com.au/league.asp?i=news&id=4652 NRL chairman Michael Hill said there had been no show of support from rival clubs at an official level for South Sydney's reinstatement to the competition following their court defeat. More (A little article from news.com.au to remind us all about the fear that News Limited has now installed in the game ... Ed) file:///C:/my%20sites%20old/My%20Sites/Homesteads/southsydney/News121100.html November 1 South Sydney chairman George Piggins today assured Federal Court officials the club's fans would act "properly" no matter what the verdict handed down on Friday in the club's fight for reinstatement to the National Rugby League. More http://www.rabbitohs.com/burrows/news/2000/11/001.shtml |
