Rudan left at the end of his first season. Exited a 2 season contract early.
Also took Kurto, Max Burgess and Durante with him to Western U.
None of those folks are still at WU, except maybe Dura in an off the field role??
In hindsight Marko leaving early wasn't the end of the world. Talay came in and did a mostly good job, and Rudan has since proven to be a pretty poisonous almost unhinged influence at WU & WSW. Plus the rumoured unsavoury stalker and USB stick stuff (Google is your friend).
Basically it's a 'rivalry' that was always going to peter out. Plus most of WU's 3,000 odd fans, likely don't even know (or have long forgotten) the Nix have a beef with them. I mean even Nix fans as above are getting it wrong with the passage of time, by saying the Judas left mid season.
It always needed Auckland to enter the ALM for a true proper long standing rivalry to happen.
Also took Kurto, Max Burgess and Durante with him to Western U.
None of those folks are still at WU, except maybe Dura in an off the field role??
In hindsight Marko leaving early wasn't the end of the world. Talay came in and did a mostly good job, and Rudan has since proven to be a pretty poisonous almost unhinged influence at WU & WSW. Plus the rumoured unsavoury stalker and USB stick stuff (Google is your friend).
Basically it's a 'rivalry' that was always going to peter out. Plus most of WU's 3,000 odd fans, likely don't even know (or have long forgotten) the Nix have a beef with them. I mean even Nix fans as above are getting it wrong with the passage of time, by saying the Judas left mid season.
It always needed Auckland to enter the ALM for a true proper long standing rivalry to happen.