This is from The Debate Page FB site pasted there from Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs News (another FB site).

Now the funny f***in' thing about it, is the comments seem to be pointing to the "ringleader" as someone very familiar to anyone who was on the old Debate Page on RL. There's a lot of joking about Sesame Street characters, or should I say one particular Sesame Street character - are you with me? 

I'm not saying it's him, in fact nobody directly is, but the hints seem to point that way.


DOGS AT WAR: NUMBERS DON’T STACK UP FOR REBELSOPPONENTS of the Canterbury rebel members calling for change have urged their “ringleader” to front Bulldogs HQ tomorrow for a face-to-face showdown with club management, demanding he “put up or shut up” to end the leadership crisis. Some of the ringleader’s loyalists have conceded they do not have the numbers to call an extraordinary general meeting at all but they maintain that they have significant numbers and the ringleader would be prepared to try again later in the year to gather the required signatures.“Look, the ringleader likes to embellish a little bit,” said one dissenting rebel member who did not wish to be identified. “We’ve got about 35 signatures but most of the actual voting members we spoke to have told us that there really is no appetite for change now and to wait until 2022 when this term runs its course. The problem with the ringleader is he suffers from delusions of grandeur. He wants to call an EGM but then what? He has no plan, no strategy, no backup and no candidates in mind except for a few familiar faces who were already tossed out by the voting members and wouldn’t get voted back in anyway. He really hasn’t got a hope in hell and he’s doing this purely out of spite.”In a sign the destabilisation of the Belmore-based club could continue indefinitely, rebel members supportive of the ringleader claimed the board was underestimating the support behind regime change.One source close to the club was adamant that the ringleader could muster no more than 20 signatures.“There is no way the ringleader has 500 signatures,” the source said. “If you believe that, you believe in the tooth fairy. They simply don’t have the numbers. If they did, they would’ve stormed Belmore today waving their petitions demanding an EGM. Didn’t happen. Nobody showed up. They’re full of s—-. It just doesn’t add up. The ringleader would have about 20 signatures at best, well short of the 100 required to trigger an EGM.”The latest breakout of dissent among voting members appears to have moved support in favour of the current board.“The members and fans are becoming rightly traumatised by all this,” said one powerbroker, who believes the ringleader is now terminally damaged. In a savage critique of the ringleader, the powerbroker questioned whether the self-appointed leader of the rebels had the personality or temperament to serve on the Bulldogs board “given his tendency to lie and peddle mistruths about the veracity of the petition for the emergency meeting”.“For too long, the ringleader has been putting his own self-interest ahead of the broader interests of Canterbury and the club as a whole and that needs to stop,” he said.“He has sought to tear down management these past two and a half years and now he undermines the board at every turn. This hoax has exposed the ringleader for the piss-weak narcissist that he really is who simply cannot accept the result of the 2018 election and has told anyone who cares to listen that he can do a better job than anyone who currently sits on the board. He’s pissing in the wind. Running a tuck shop at junior footy games on weekends doesn’t qualify you to run an NRL club. Being a keyboard warrior and disparaging club management on social media won’t do you any favours either.”The ringleader could not be reached for comment.