5 decisions that have totally F*****. This game …
1) mic’ing up the referees is the worst decision that’s ever been made, it’s given off field influencers the perfect opportunity to get in the referees ear all game and control it for what they call TV entertainment purposes instead of just referee the game how they see it.
2) The more they try to make the game safer, the more they F*** it up, it’s always been a tough contact sport, players know this going in, yes protect the head, but the level the Nrl has gone to is ridiculous, good tackles around the legs/ankles needs to be addressed and rewarded instead of penalised, bring back the toughness ..
3) Unless your rorting it, the salary cap penalises success, the talent pools getting smaller because most clubs have a buy a premiership mentality, start rewarding development clubs, there’s a reason there’s very few elite 7’s and big powerful forwards, clubs don’t have the patience for them to mature and become 1st grade seasoned players, salary cap relief and reward for development would see this change.
4) Introducing gambling without having a stewards type of Nrl independent governing body is just an invitation for corruption and cheating … anyone that doesn’t think this shit is going on is either very naive or just has their head in the sand.
5) TPA’s need to be properly policed, it doesn’t take Einstein to work out certain clubs have found some very clever loopholes to rort the system, this needs to stop, having clubs with 15 million dollar teams on paper but can fit them into a 12 million dollar cap and doing nothing about it makes the people running the Nrl out to be unprofessional cowboys who are just in it for the money ..
Address those 5 points and the game would be 1000 times better ..
