Trainman wrote:
http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_22275-off-the-record-rugby-league-rumour-and-gossip-39.html
We are looking at Charlie Gubb from NZ according to this
There seems to be a lot going on at the N Z Warriors at the moment, it seems Ryan Hoffmans straight talking to some players is not going down to well with some of the players and as well as that Shaun Johnson has ruffled a few feathers by reportedly going to the board and pointing the finger at certain players.
All this is on the N Z Warriors Front Row forum, thread 6 to be dropped, see below posted 29th May.
"OPINION: The Warriors are a club in chaos.
The repercussions from the Warriors' big night out in Auckland after their Anzac Day thrashing in Melbourne – belted 42-0 – continue to be felt.
It will be some time before the club and everyone involved can move on.
It's understood a group of the Pacific Island players have found captain Ryan Hoffman's very direct Aussie manner difficult to handle."
"The teams' stuttering season is on a knife edge and only an improbable win against the Broncos next weekend seems capable of somehow injecting confidence back into the club and getting the team back on track.
While desperate to promote unity to their disappointed fan base, the team will have to work hard to contain frictions within the player ranks.
Behind the scenes, some team-mates are at odds with each other over how the recent issues have been dealt with.
It is understood the hard-line taken by coach Andrew McFadden and captain Ryan Hoffman, most particularly toward some of the young players, is not going down well.
But despite all the revelations and confessions since that appalling lack of judgment by six fully contracted players to head out on the town on April 26 and fill themselves up with energy drinks and the pain-killing drug Tramadol, you get the strong feeling the full story is yet to come out.
It seems the Silly Six, or whatever you want to call them – Manu Vatuvei, Ben Matulino, Bodene Thompson, Sam Lisone, Albert Vete and Konrad Hurrell – even allowing for Hurrell's claim that he abstained from the pill popping, had company on their night out in the shape of a former Warriors player whose identity has yet to be revealed. It's understood this mystery guest was a bad influence."