Well, this has been the most sterile, uninteresting gf week since, well, last year. Every time I try to get interested I just seem to start thinking about the f'en rorters and wonder how, for example, they have $300k players sitting on their bench and no one at the nrl accounting dep't (haha, like that's a thing) seems to think anything is wrong. It used to be lots of my friends and peeps at work would be talking about the gf throughout the week before. This week, literally no one I know has mentioned it other than the odd random 'fuckin rorters' comment.
So true. Never seen this low level of interest ever.
The fact it's the rorters is a major reason and Canberra but league is no longer the game it was due to sleazy gossip hound journos, cheating refs and incompetent head honchos killing it off. Fans are fed up with the running of the game, it's presentation and boring robotic style thanks to Bellamy and Robinson managing every aspect of the product on the field.
There's lots of reasons for the general disinterest but a clean out of HQ is paramount with a new salary cap/tpa system that is fully accountable so fans know that their team has at least a fighting chance of competing against the top 2 long term.
If you're going to impose restraints and caps on teams in your competition, you bloody well better have iron clad systems that work to ensure competitiveness.
Imagine another GF with Rorters, probably Storm, and/or anyone else making up the numbers for the chooks to beat, next year and the year after ...ad infinitum.
Add that to all the ref/bunker mistakes/favouritism and inept administrators, well you are starting to see the real death of the game unless more competent, professional, even handed management take over who rule for the games benefit, not the dominant clubs alone.
