What is your most unpopular opinion about the NRL?

[PANTHERMIKE]

Blockers....

 

[ed-grimley]

Some of these are not really unpopular opinions.
In fact, some of them are incredibly popular opinions that I hear all the time.

Yeah, I should have looked closer at the title of the thred...

 

[RazorRam0n]

some of them are common whinges really

 

[Canard]

Getting paid a bit more during premierships or allegedly injecting a couple of players with drugs for a few weeks 5 years before a premiership win?

The lesson here is, that cheating is only bad if you win something.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

The lesson here is, that cheating is only bad if you win something.

No doubt both infringements deserved punishment, but to put something that was 5 years previous on a level with active efforts at the time is pretty weird.

 

[Brutus]

Token women in the rugby league media all of a sudden. Can someone please explain what Hannah Hollis adds to the Sunday Triple M NRL team? Vonny and Lara Pitt deserve their respective gigs on merit.

 

[blaza88z]

Token women in the rugby league media all of a sudden. Can someone please explain what Hannah Hollis adds to the Sunday Triple M NRL team? Vonny and Lara Pitt deserve their respective gigs on merit.

Hollis is the worst, if she wasn't of aboriginal descent she wouldn't have a job. On "League Life" last week, Gus was the guest, the other 3 women asked all the questions, she didn't say a single thing, besides.. she's got a head like the bottom of my foot.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

she's got a head like the bottom of my foot.

I'd see a doctor about that.

 

[The_Shield]

No doubt both infringements deserved punishment, but to put something that was 5 years previous on a level with active efforts at the time is pretty weird.

I never said that the Sharks cheating resulted in their premiership win last year. I just want them punished the same as all other drug cheats

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

I never said that the Sharks cheating resulted in their premiership win last year. I just want them punished the same as all other drug cheats

The compare it with a similar incident, stop comparing apples with oranges.

 

[blaza88z]

I never said that the Sharks cheating resulted in their premiership win last year. I just want them punished the same as all other drug cheats

Yet, you don't want Melbourne punished for their systematic cheating which directly led to winning 2 premierships, you want them given back.

If you're not trolling, that will do me.

 

[Diesel]

Not enough HLA, hot lesbian action

 

[The_Shield]

The compare it with a similar incident, stop comparing apples with oranges.

I'm not the one who compared it to Melbournes cheating, that was you. And fine you want a similar incident, how about Jarrod Mullen or Sandor Earl

 

[T.S Quint]

Yvonne Sampson is boring, and not all that attractive.

 

[T.S Quint]

Blockers....

Drop the 's' and you would get another thing that League needs to get rid of.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

I'm not the one who compared it to Melbournes cheating, that was you. And fine you want a similar incident, how about Jarrod Mullen or Sandor Earl

Ahh... No mate, I think you raised the two incidents first in this post:

Ok I've got a couple.
1. Melbourne should be recognised winners of the 2007 and 2009 grand finals.
2. Vossy is a terrible commentator
3. Paul Gallen and the rest of the drug cheats should of been banned for 2 years
4. Introduce a 20/40 rule to go along with the 40/20

And compared the two again, right here:

What's worse? Getting paid a bit more or injecting players with performance enhancing drugs

If you're arguing for consistency in rulings (which I'd agree with), it's not unfair that I ask you have consistency in your argument.

Actually, at the time of the Storm salary cap problem, I held the idea that the club should be forced to start from scratch in terms of players - all contracts should have been torn up by the NRL and the players put on the open market for next season.

That's a penalty that would surely act as a complete deterrent for any club in future.

 

[The_Shield]

Yet, you don't want Melbourne punished for their systematic cheating which directly led to winning 2 premierships, you want them given back.

If you're not trolling, that will do me.

Yeah cause their stripping of the titles was the only punishment they received. Even if you leave out the stripping of the titles, the punishment they received was unparalleled

 

[mistertaylor]

Not sure if this one is unpopular or not, but I don't see it mentioned much around here...

There are too many games each season. At least a quarter of the games each year should be gotten rid of.

Especially the rounds during Origin season

 

[blaza88z]

Yeah cause their stripping of the titles was the only punishment they received. Even if you leave out the stripping of the titles, the punishment they received was unparalleled

They were blatantly cheating, they had to be made an example of, they should have been made to completely re-assemble a new squad instead of being allowed to keep the likes of Smith, Slater and Cronk.

They're still benefiting from their systematic cheating, it's ridiculous.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Yeah cause their stripping of the titles was the only punishment they received.

Nope. 3 Minor premierships also stripped, about $1.8 million in fines and no points for the 2010 season.