Time for a Super League type coup to save RL

[berrigan]

V'landys and Abdo etc are ruining the NRL.

From the overwhelming voices of the fans, coaches, ex players and media... the game is going down the toilet.
It seems like the majority of teams would possibly jump ship to another competition. One with less overbearing rules appearing every second week.

Just need a couple of cashed up megafan$$$ / moguls to start a new comp, and the worst case, like the late 90s Super League situation, is the competition uniting again, resulting in a meeting in the middle with game rules.

 

[broncsgoat]

V'landys and Abdo etc are ruining the NRL.

From the overwhelming voices of the fans, coaches, ex players and media... the game is going down the toilet.
It seems like the majority of teams would possibly jump ship to another competition. One with less overbearing rules appearing every second week.

Just need a couple of cashed up megafan$$$ / moguls to start a new comp, and the worst case, like the late 90s Super League situation, is the competition uniting again, resulting in a meeting in the middle with game rules.

The media love a witch-hunt. If vlandys keeps this shit up they’ll eviscerate him

 

[Midean]

The media love a witch-hunt. If vlandys keeps this shit up they’ll eviscerate him

Yep, he is manipulating the narrative in every possible way as well.
Go look at the NRL website news page, not a single negative remark around these changes, and plenty of links to support from people like Robinson and Bennett who has been selectively quoted out of context.

This is in direct contrast to other forms of nrl news and social media, where V'landys and the magic round are being burnt at the stake for the debacle surrounding it.

The commentators are all pushing PVL's narrative as well, which is evident by the fact that we saw multiple commentators on Friday night damning the rule changes, yet we have heard barely a peep out of them for the remainder of the round.

100% PVL went into damage control after Friday night, and as a result we have had 2 games of footy completely fucked by knee-jerk rule implementations that the rest of the round are officiated differently by.

 

[Strop]

The greasy prick was on the continuous call team on the radio today for a quick interview. Brohman in particular stood his ground and said it was wrong and unnecessary as intentional foul play has already been taken out of the game and that most contact with the head is accidental and that you can’t regulate against accidental contact. All V’landys could counter with was that foul play head contact has to be officiated out of the game. They all said, “but it’s accidental nearly all the time”, but he chose to go down the emotive path of, “won’t somebody think of the children.”
Brohman even brought up Tedesco being just as responsible for his head knocks as the defender as he is always falling into the tackles or backing in.

All the listener feedback was negative towards the fat prick and believe that the game is being ruined.

 

[Sproj]

Yep, make it happen, for the good of the game, seriously.

 

[theshed]

I really can’t see the game surviving as is. He’ll never admit it publicly but I’m sure after this weekend we’ll see an easing up on the sin bins, and he’ll use the reduced sin bins as evidence that it’s working.

The game seriously can’t survive 1 or 2 guaranteed sin bins per game.

 

[Midean]

I really can’t see the game surviving as is. He’ll never admit it publicly but I’m sure after this weekend we’ll see an easing up on the sin bins, and he’ll use the reduced sin bins as evidence that it’s working.

The game seriously can’t survive 1 or 2 guaranteed sin bins per game.

Yep, just wait till its an Origin decider or a GF and the game is decided on the back of sin bins. Nail, meet coffin.

 

[K-Style]

It's fine to "crack down" on head highs but it needs to occur from Rd 1. But you still need some grey area as the Tedesco incident shows. Also you cannot punish legs tackles the way we do calling "get of him" the moment they're on the ground.

 

[BroncsFan]

It's fine to "crack down" on head highs but it needs to occur from Rd 1. But you still need some grey area as the Tedesco incident shows. Also you cannot punish legs tackles the way we do calling "get of him" the moment they're on the ground.

But they put the discretion in there with the whole forceful contact or whatever the **** they said Gamble's one was.

There can't be any suggestion that there's forceful contact or intention from the cows player when Teddy drops to his knees a split second before the tackle.

I think they even had one for accidental contact to the head being a penalty, but not reportable.... the tackle on Teddy is the definition of accidental.

It's a penalty all day (as is any contact to the head), but it's not reportable and it's definitely not a sin binning.

It's just the refs fucking up yet again, because "he was tackled too hard"

 

[Skathen]

But they put the discretion in there with the whole forceful contact or whatever the **** they said Gamble's one was.

There can't be any suggestion that there's forceful contact or intention from the cows player when Teddy drops to his knees a split second before the tackle.

I think they even had one for accidental contact to the head being a penalty, but not reportable.... the tackle on Teddy is the definition of accidental.

It's a penalty all day (as is any contact to the head), but it's not reportable and it's definitely not a sin binning.

It's just the refs fucking up yet again, because "he was tackled too hard"

Falling into a tackle and copping an accidental head knock typically would not have even been a penalty previously as the attacker was largely at fault. It should have been play on. If anything, the player introducing danger is actually Teddy for doing it on purpose several times per game. Bin him for his own safety /s

 

[BroncsFan]

Falling into a tackle and copping an accidental head knock typically would not have even been a penalty previously as the attacker was largely at fault. It should have been play on. If anything, the player introducing danger is actually Teddy for doing it on purpose several times per game. Bin him for his own safety /s

Pretty sure it was still a penalty every time the arm, etc. makes contact with the head ... can recall the ref saying plenty of times previously that it doesn't matter if they've slipped in the tackle contact to the head is still a penalty

They don't typically end up getting any suspensions, put on report or binned for it though... and the one last night shouldn't have been a sin binning either because it was completely accidental.

If their new interpretations mean the Teddy one must always be a sin bin then their new rules are flat out wrong and they are completely inept for not seeing it that way before implementing in the first place.

 

[Skathen]

There have been plenty of those let go unless there's a swinging arm.... maybe not recently under the new administration, but in years gone by that would very likely have been play on.

 

[Mustafur]

Give it time guys, No way the current administration keeps with this fruad, half the media(especially the murdoch press) are completely in bed this bullshit, but none of the public wants this shit.

They go on with player welfare bullshit yet the rules they made have made the game way more dangerous for the players, not only that but barely any of the games are close any more.

We all long for the day we go back to Pre Covid rules.

 

[thenry]

Well I just watched 8 live games, and I reckon there was about 30 minutes combined where there was any real tension or doubt in who the winner would be.
What a colossal **** up these rules are. There's no tension.

 

[Foordy]

Well I just watched 8 live games, and I reckon there was about 30 minutes combined where there was any real tension or doubt in who the winner would be.
What a colossal **** up these rules are. There's no tension.

6 of the 8 games this round had 13+ margins

 

[vertigo]

All it took was one weekend to **** everything up.

To do it in magic round of all rounds is fucking criminal.

 

[johnyE]

6 of the 8 games this round had 13+ margins

Thus I suspect more amenable to the odds for gambling , that's the incentive , not Rugby League.