Brothers Cairns thought they were the bomb after stealing the Premiership from the Port Douglas Mossman Sharks last year when they pulled a 13-12 overlap try after one of our boys got binned for 10 at the 66 minute mark, in the greatest disgrace of a decision since Our Poetic Prince lost the ’87 Caulfield Guineas on protest to Marwong.
We fixed them though.
At the start of the season we secured the services of a certain player named Ben Barba, whose family come from up this neck of the woods out in the Torres Strait Islands.
You don’t see too many Dally M winners running around in this neck of the woods do you?
And we got him fair and square, for love and kin not cash.
On top of that we brought a local superstar through, a kid named Lewis Mene from Badu Island (pop. 756) who plays on the wing and is a $1.10 shot to be playing NRL by the time he’s 20, and Origin before he’s 21, if not before.
Lewis scored 9 tries in his first 3 games, the first seniors matched he had ever played.
I don’t have a highlights reel, but to give you some idea this below is his brother Jacob in action.
Brilliant isn’t he?
Well trust me, Lewis is even better, and by about 4 lengths too.
Our boys have played the Brothers bums twice this season in the six rounds completed to date.
We beat them 40-20 at their place, and 50-26 at our own.
The premiership was in the bag.
And then two things happened.
Lewis Mene’s brilliant has seen him called up to play for the Blackhawks in the Hostplus Cup, and after he scored a hat trick on debut this weekend I doubt that we will ever see him back.
That bits fair enough.
The next bit isn’t.
Do you know what these cheating cashed up from pokies bastards have gone and done to try and beat us?
They’ve signed up George Burgess.
Yeah, Slamming Sam’s brother George.
The Cairns council are in on it.
They’ve given Burgess some 3rd party deal that pays him a fortune on top of his already hefty payments above and under the table for Brothers.
This on top of a trustee lease over Williams Park the Council gifted them, and $4 million to redevelop the ground into a training centre with Sydney Roosters like facilities. And the Federal Government kicked in $4 million as well, meaning that Brothers get a $12 million hi-tech joint for just $4 million of their own.
Know how much the Port Douglas-Mossman Sharks got?
Zero.
And now they’ve landed Big George too, and he plays his first match this weekend.
It’s rumored that a syndicate comprising former Brisbane rails bookie Errol Flynn (aka Hayden, aka Horrie), local bookie and Torbek plunge fringe player Brian Jorgensen, and everybody’s favourite wig wearing heir to a retail fortune and Frank Sinatra impersonator Winton ‘Big Deal’ Veale have stumped up 300 grand between them to put in a brown paper bag to get.
Bah! Good luck to them, to Burgess and to his dirty low-down cheating club. They will need it, because how’s a pasty Pom like him going to handle the heat? He’s a million to one, and blowing like gale.
Money can’t buy you love them the Beatles reckoned.
Well let me tell you something.
It can’t buy you a brown paper bag filled by bookies and poker machine funde premiership win over the mighty Port Douglas-Mossman Sharks either.
If Georgie boy’s the answer, then what’s the bloody question?
That’s what I say.
Benny’s gunna skin him like a fish.