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[After
setting up with the AACo, demanding his inheritance
from Heytesbury, and forcing that company into a
large asset sale to find the cash PHaC was asked
whether he was in direct competition with his own
family]: "We don't see
ourselves as being in competition with other
producers" --- ABC Landline, 14 July
2001
[Promises on the development of the South Sydney Leagues Club]: "The Chalmers Street building will also be the headquarters for the football club and house a hall of fame - possibly for the game, and not just the Rabbitohs." --- SMH, 25 November 2006
[On Firepower's sponsorship of the Rabbitohs]:"Rabbitohs' Major Home Corporate Partner for the next three years"... [describing Firepower]: "an Australian success story - operating in over 50 countries globally" --- Souths Official Press Release, November 2006
[Responding to Gerald Ryle and Jacqueline Magnays' SMH extensive investigation into the Firepower scam]: "I have done due diligence on the company [Firepower]" --- SMH, 20th January 2007
[On Trivest's sponsorship of the Rabbitohs]: "There's no bullshit in there, it's a $2.8 million deal" --- AAP, 1 March 2007
"We are all for free speech on the web and we encourage constructive debate" --- Official SSFC Press Release, 13 March 2007
"There is simply no place in our Club for anyone who uses the pen or the keyboard to personally attack other members of our family." --- Souths, PHaC Open Letter to John Sattler, 7 April 2007 (Of course PHaC at that stage did not realise that Rebel Rabbitohs would reveal his true role during the March 2006 EGM campaign)
[On the making of 'South Side Story'] "Taking part in this film was the scariest thing I've done since buying the club. Normally as a businessman you have your hand on the tiller but with this I didn't. The ABC's editorial guidelines meant we didn't have any control at all, so it was stressful: you don't know how you're going to come out of it. The result a lifting of the veil, an honest look at the guts of the club"--- Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 2007. (It is common knowledge that there was a 'no' list of people who the club did not want interviewed about the privatisation campaign)
"It was a money-losing business then. It had a negative balance sheet of minus $1.5 million, but we invested $3 million as a gift to keep it alive, then an extra $2.5 million as an investment to help the club grow. Just a year later, the club's value is estimated at somewhere between $15 and $20 million." --- Daily Telegraph, 23 October 2007 (The reality was the club had posted the biggest loss in its history of $5million)
"I am completely comfortable with the idea that you can be a successful person in business and be a well-balanced person who cares about community and family" --- Daily Telegraph, 23 October 2007
[On Shane Richardson resigning as Rabbitohs CEO and taking up the CEO's job in PHaC's 'The Passionate Group' company]: "Shane has done an unbelievable job in his role as CEO. He's had to endure a lot of pressure and turn around an underperforming business." --- AAP, 31 October 2007
[On the ending of Firepower's sponsorship of the Rabbitohs]: "That was always intended to be a one-year sponsorship to raise the profile of Firepower's Australian regional office" --- AAP, 24 November 2007 (Just 12 months previously PHaC was lauding the Firepower sponsorship as a 3 year deal that made the Rabbitohs the envy of Australian sport)
[On the Rabbitohs privatisation]: "Russell and I are the only owners of a rugby team in Australia, which is a bizarre concept. Australian teams tend to be clubbased, where the members own the team. We're the only business people buying a team and turning it around. There's no model in Australia for what we're doing."--- The Florida Times Union - Jacksonville.com, 20 December 2007 (PHaC conveniently left out that Max Dalmeage owns 2008 NRL Premiers, Manly, and that several NRL clubs are owned by News Ltd)
[On lying]: "Sometimes you are asked a question and you don't lie. If you are trying to get a player and you're talking to his agent and you're talking to the player. And you're asked a straight question, sometimes you don't lie, sometimes you tell the truth." --- SSTV Q&A, Souths Official Website, 1 May 2008
[On being punted as Executive Chairman]: "I was executive chairman for two years, unpaid, and supported the club because I believe in the club and I had done what I believe are the chunky long term things." --- ABC, 3 June 2008
[On being found, in NSW Supreme Court, to have defamed a former SSLC Director and member of the SSDRLFC] "It is a loss on points but it is a clear moral victory." --- SMH, 9 September 2009
[Promises on the development of the South Sydney Leagues Club]: "The Chalmers Street building will also be the headquarters for the football club and house a hall of fame - possibly for the game, and not just the Rabbitohs." --- SMH, 25 November 2006
[On Firepower's sponsorship of the Rabbitohs]:"Rabbitohs' Major Home Corporate Partner for the next three years"... [describing Firepower]: "an Australian success story - operating in over 50 countries globally" --- Souths Official Press Release, November 2006
[Responding to Gerald Ryle and Jacqueline Magnays' SMH extensive investigation into the Firepower scam]: "I have done due diligence on the company [Firepower]" --- SMH, 20th January 2007
[On Trivest's sponsorship of the Rabbitohs]: "There's no bullshit in there, it's a $2.8 million deal" --- AAP, 1 March 2007
"We are all for free speech on the web and we encourage constructive debate" --- Official SSFC Press Release, 13 March 2007
"There is simply no place in our Club for anyone who uses the pen or the keyboard to personally attack other members of our family." --- Souths, PHaC Open Letter to John Sattler, 7 April 2007 (Of course PHaC at that stage did not realise that Rebel Rabbitohs would reveal his true role during the March 2006 EGM campaign)
[On the making of 'South Side Story'] "Taking part in this film was the scariest thing I've done since buying the club. Normally as a businessman you have your hand on the tiller but with this I didn't. The ABC's editorial guidelines meant we didn't have any control at all, so it was stressful: you don't know how you're going to come out of it. The result a lifting of the veil, an honest look at the guts of the club"--- Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 2007. (It is common knowledge that there was a 'no' list of people who the club did not want interviewed about the privatisation campaign)
"It was a money-losing business then. It had a negative balance sheet of minus $1.5 million, but we invested $3 million as a gift to keep it alive, then an extra $2.5 million as an investment to help the club grow. Just a year later, the club's value is estimated at somewhere between $15 and $20 million." --- Daily Telegraph, 23 October 2007 (The reality was the club had posted the biggest loss in its history of $5million)
"I am completely comfortable with the idea that you can be a successful person in business and be a well-balanced person who cares about community and family" --- Daily Telegraph, 23 October 2007
[On Shane Richardson resigning as Rabbitohs CEO and taking up the CEO's job in PHaC's 'The Passionate Group' company]: "Shane has done an unbelievable job in his role as CEO. He's had to endure a lot of pressure and turn around an underperforming business." --- AAP, 31 October 2007
[On the ending of Firepower's sponsorship of the Rabbitohs]: "That was always intended to be a one-year sponsorship to raise the profile of Firepower's Australian regional office" --- AAP, 24 November 2007 (Just 12 months previously PHaC was lauding the Firepower sponsorship as a 3 year deal that made the Rabbitohs the envy of Australian sport)
[On the Rabbitohs privatisation]: "Russell and I are the only owners of a rugby team in Australia, which is a bizarre concept. Australian teams tend to be clubbased, where the members own the team. We're the only business people buying a team and turning it around. There's no model in Australia for what we're doing."--- The Florida Times Union - Jacksonville.com, 20 December 2007 (PHaC conveniently left out that Max Dalmeage owns 2008 NRL Premiers, Manly, and that several NRL clubs are owned by News Ltd)
[On lying]: "Sometimes you are asked a question and you don't lie. If you are trying to get a player and you're talking to his agent and you're talking to the player. And you're asked a straight question, sometimes you don't lie, sometimes you tell the truth." --- SSTV Q&A, Souths Official Website, 1 May 2008
[On being punted as Executive Chairman]: "I was executive chairman for two years, unpaid, and supported the club because I believe in the club and I had done what I believe are the chunky long term things." --- ABC, 3 June 2008
[On being found, in NSW Supreme Court, to have defamed a former SSLC Director and member of the SSDRLFC] "It is a loss on points but it is a clear moral victory." --- SMH, 9 September 2009
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