Couple of generic sort of ones to start with but they tie in well together.
How would you rate the health and strength of the game?
25 answered this question, with options of outstanding, good, average, poor and The Canberra Raiders are in better shape than the game is.
The Verdict: 13 of you answered good and the other 12 voted average. The take away from this is that the game is okay, not poorly it would seem, but not outstandingly well either. An interesting complimentary result to this was...
The success of your team aside, do you think the game is better and more exciting than it was 10 years ago?
25 answered this question too, with options of Yes by a long or small margin, No by a long or small margin, feels about the same and didn't follow the game 10 years ago.
The Verdict: 4 of you answered yes, but all who did said only by a small margin. 9 said it feels about the same, whilst there were 3 respondents who only took up interest in the game in the last decade. 9 in total said it was worse, 5 by a small margin and 4 by a big margin.
To simplify this verdict, out of the 22 people who followed the game 10 years ago, 18 do not believe it is a more exciting product than it was in 2004. Now, I did ask people to exclude our success, but maybe it's hard and the fact we've had a lean 2-3 years is a factor.
My 2c: I myself said no by a small margin. Things like the wrestle and the slowing down of the play the balls, coupled with extraneously long times spent on video reviews for both tries and foul play, coupled with an amazing inability to still get it right are all reasons that kill some of the excitement for me. And that's despite the game having a lot of exciting players, more so IMO than in recent years.