Dear NRL HQ & the media...

Maybe don’t change rules mid season and give players time to practice the new rule...

If we use the army example earlier and you’re trained to shoot the heart but one day they say shoot the stomach, chances are you won’t hit the target the day the change was made...
 
Caniffe said:
Maybe don’t change rules mid season and give players time to practice the new rule...

If we use the army example earlier and you’re trained to shoot the heart but one day they say shoot the stomach, chances are you won’t hit the target the day the change was made...
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These army examples are interesting.

It's like The Storm & Roosters getting away with war crimes while the smaller countries get punished if they try the same thing.
 
Broncapz said:
Cancelled Kayo.

There's probably enough Broncos members to really get a #cancelkayo that will get press coverage until something is done about PVL.
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Nah I use it for the Lions, hot dog eating comps, F1 and the NBA.
 
broncos4life said:
What is Gould complaining about? He has had his tongue so far up Vlandys ass he can tickle his tonsils. You wanted this Gus so don’t whinge now that it’s here.
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That's how it works when you want a stubborn **** to change. You kiss the fuckwits ass until he accepts some of your ideas.
 
I think we are starting to the fruits of labours that put a dull ideology of "fitter, faster, stronger" ahead of understanding why things like the salary cap were brought in the first place.
I keep reiterating it but anyone making changes to this game needs to ask some very basic questions but they boil down to the following one:
"why do fans watch the game? "
The NRL seems to think it is simply for the "spectacle". It doesnt matter who wins so long as it is fast with great displays of athleticism. That's true of ballet and nothing else.
Everyone cares who wins! The casual fans might care less and might prefer athleticism of a close score but they came because someone else cared about the result.
Athletics singularly shows the epitome of physical performance right? So the track and field events are packed across the country right? WRONG
The only time people care about those athletes is when the result of their performance has meaning. That must be the World Cup right when the finest athletes of each discipline gather to perform right?. WRONG again. It is the Olympics where some of the best athletes come (but not all as only 3 from one country can compete at a time) to defend the pride of their nation.
Of course Bolt was watched because he was great right? Well partly....
You see they watched him because was great but was an underdog from a small country competing against the might of the likes of the Americans. And there you have it.
Sport is about delivering narratives. Dramas, rivalries but above its sheer unpredictable nature.
Sometimes the bad guy wins. Sometimes the underdog gets up and yes sometimes the ref cheats the rightful team.
Any rule must help emphasise those traits or at best be unproductive to its enjoyment or worse (as in the 6 again rule) be counterproductive.
The current laws are doing to league what neither AFL or soccer could ever hope to achieve: make the outcomes monotonously predictable. It's easily readable from 10 minutes in and short of a team doing a "titans" and having a collective brain fart, renders it attention for an outcome entirely unnessary.
Worse the reliance on certain players in select positions means there is a widening chasm between the haves and have not when it come those purveyors of skill.
I may sound just salty after another broncos thumping but think upon this: If not true why is one lonely signing of an aging halfback expected by almost every respected commentator seen as the progenitor of a top right table finish when the overall skill of the squad has declined?
We will cheer them next year and forget all this but the game will still be as broken.
 
Unbreakable said:
How many steps need to be taken in regards to head injuries? I mean, seriously? It's a contact sport. In every contact sport around the world there is GOING to be contact with the head, incidental or not. It's literally impossible to completely eradicate it from the game.

With how stringent we are now in regards to HIA's, I don't understand why V'Landys is doubling down and now also making it an automatic report & penalty for ANY contact with the head, and an instant sin-bin if there's a bit of force behind it (which probably wouldn't have even been a penalty 2-3 years ago).

It's short-term pain for absolutely no gain long-term. Anyone with half an ounce of common sense knows these rules won't last. The referees will eventually relax on their rulings and it'll drift back towards the norm. Just a complete waste of time.
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**** me dead. So rugby union, rugby league, Aussie rules, mma, boxing, nfl, are all doomed? If people want to play a game and are willing to take the risks wtf has it got to do with those that don't? You poor young bastards, this is your future. It's starting to look like I lived in the best of all possible times. Sadly, the young only have themselves to blame too, it's not we old folk who developed the cancel culture and most of that was from women. Knew we shouldn't have let them vote.
 
Must be some too tier restraint clauses in the media given how slow the commentators are when being asked to call the 2020/21 changes as a farce.

Check Gordie out last night who is usually the first to run off the back fence
 
Huge said:
**** me dead. So rugby union, rugby league, Aussie rules, mma, boxing, nfl, are all doomed? If people want to play a game and are willing to take the risks wtf has it got to do with those that don't? You poor young bastards, this is your future. It's starting to look like I lived in the best of all possible times. Sadly, the young only have themselves to blame too, it's not we old folk who developed the cancel culture and most of that was from women. Knew we shouldn't have let them vote.
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Well it is... the cancel culture is 1% and it’s cause the spoilt ***** never got told NO! 99% hate the change but the 1% ruin everything
 
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