Fitz Beyond the Fringe
He lines ’em up and he takes ’em down. Punctuation-puzzled millionaire socialist and prediction reverse-o-matic Peter FitzSimons has now completed his mission of destruction against Rugby Australia boss Raelene Castle.
He lines ’em up and he takes ’em down. Punctuation-puzzled millionaire socialist and prediction reverse-o-matic Peter FitzSimons has now completed his mission of destruction against Rugby Australia boss Raelene Castle.
Here’s Fitz just a few weeks ago:
She will survive in the short term. I would suspect she'll be there at least until Christmas, maybe into next year, we don't know. It's not an imminent change-over.
Not imminent? There until Christmas? Think again, bandana boy:
Raelene Castle was pushed to resign suddenly as Rugby Australia boss when a fatal loss of confidence from her own board was breaking point in a year under constant siege.
Remarkably, Castle spoke of having the “very thick hide” to withstand criticism and plough on with her rescue plans for the code just hours before the end.
In a hurtful moment some time after pre-recording that save-the-game interview for the ABC’s 7.30 show at 4pm yesterday at RA’s headquarters in Sydney she discovered her board had turned.
Another FitzSimons prediction was a factor in Castles’s departure:
The Folau issue … was the beginning of the end for Castle’s two-year reign.
The payout of more than $3 million was the biggest scar on the $9.4 million loss recently tabled in the fractured 2019 accounts by RA.
Peter bet the payout to Israel Folau would only be “about $200,000 to $300,000". When ol’ Pete flips his reverse-prediction ways, he’ll become the most accurate pundit in history:
(Via John P.)
UPDATE. FitzSimons campaigned to throw Israel Folau out of professional sport. Now he’s complaining about a “mean spirited” tweet:
THINK, Mr Shelton. Is there ANY way you could put out a meaner-spirited tweet than that, just after someone has lost their job? https://t.co/2XEK5pZvy7
— Peter FitzSimons (@Peter_Fitz) April 23, 2020