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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2616823, member: 8215"] Another rant from Nick Tedeschi: [url=http://makingthenut.com/from-the-couch-round-23-4/]From The Couch: Round 23 : Makingthenut[/url] [B]Translating Ricky’s Rant:[/B] Ricky Stuart went on (another) bizarre rant after the Raiders were humiliated at home by the Dragons. Here is what he said and what it really means. Ricky: Seven tries there today. You get four Origin players, two Origin players score four of them. You get an international score another one and you get two internationals in the halves who have had outstanding games. Translation: Players selected for Origin and Test football are typically better than those who aren’t. We were beaten by a team who was better recruited, better developed and better managed than ours. That is unfair. Ricky’s teams should never have to start on the wrong end of the talent stick. Ricky: but until I get Origin players or internationals here around that group of blokes in there, I’ve got some brilliant young players coming through, it ain’t going to change, that’s my job. Translation: My job is to recruit Origin players and internationals. This is somewhat of a problem as I have not recruited an international since 2010 when I got the great PNG international Paul Aiton to the Sharks. The only other internationals I have recruited since 2007 are Reni Maitua and Anthony Tupou – who both spent their entire Test careers under my coaching – and a 31-year-old Trent Barrett. I also got Origin players Josh Hannay and Danny Nutley but I dropped Hannay to club football. Ricky: Until I can recruit those boys, until we can grow our own, we’re going to have to stick solid and keep working hard to get a win for this club. Translation: Until I prove to the world that I am actually Jesus and can turn water into wine then everyone will just have to accept that the Raiders are going to lose. Ricky: Today, international players and Origin players beat us. We haven’t got any. Until I get them here, we’re going to have to keep fighting hard. Translation: Well, we actually have four including two that played today but until I can fill the huge gulf between what I promise I can deliver in terms of recruitment and what I actually can recruit (I like to call this the Greg Bird – Justin Hunt Canyon – then we can just throw our hands up and blame the fact we don’t have any quality players. Ricky: I’ve said all year it’s time and patience. If you want me to be more open and honest about it, which I don’t like doing because it just gives all the knockers out there an even crack at me. So be it, it doesn’t hurt me, I don’t give a stuff what people say about me. Translation: I’ve said all year, despite my total inability to win throughout most of my coaching career, despite plenty of evidence counting against my claims that I know what I’m doing, that clubs should trust me and pay me lots of money while they do trust me. Ricky: I’m here to do a job, and the way I do it is we slowly, slowly build. Translation: I do prefer to do things slowly. That way I get paid quite a lot of money before it is revealed I don’t actually know what I’m doing. And I am of the belief that ‘build’ is a synonym for ‘gut and destroy’. Ricky: I’ll grow my own in there, I’ve got Origin [potential] players in there that one day will play Origin Translation: I’ll be able to grow my own. Surely. How hard can it be? Sure, only three players have made their Origin or international debut since 2006 and one of them was one-Test Kiwi winger Luke Covell, I am sure I can turn these kids into Origin stars. Ricky: I will gradually get our own and I will gradually recruit players to this club, and we will be a force again one day. It’s time and patience. Translation: Trust me, just trust me … sure I am saying the exact opposite of what I have done but trust me … remember, I just need time and patience and my you can deposit a large cheque into my bank account every week while we wait. As an aside, did you know you have a large inheritance waiting with the King of Nigeria and he has personally asked me to broker the payment for you? Ricky: I’m not looking for a scapegoat and I’m not trying to make excuses, I’m just telling you exactly how [it is]. Translation: People who are looking for a scapegoat or an excuse always say I’m not looking for a scapegoat and I’m not trying to make excuses. Ricky: It doesn’t affect me at all. What was in the paper today and I’m not trying to be rude, it was wrong. Translation: It was wrong that you blokes in the media can read because Hull recruitment manager Motu Tony declared that his club had tabled an offer to the Raiders for Campese but a deal could not be reached. [/QUOTE]

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