Peter V'landys - New NRL/ARLC Chairman

[Canard]

It’s only the teams who lose by 40+ that suddenly have “bad discipline.”

Couldn’t possibly be that 1 or 2 six-agains completely drains their energy, leaving them so fatigued they get trapped in a cycle they can’t break.

 

[Maximus]

In 2 weeks time they will instruct the refs to stop giving 6 agains, and then say "see the teams learnt to be more disciplined". Everyone will know it's bullshit, and we'll be here again in 2 months after they've had to resort to another mid-season crackdown.

 

[T-Boon]

I'd get rid of coaches. They bring nothing much to the game except "dark arts" and whinging.
If we got rid of them and had captain/coaches the game would be better off - that is a fact.

 

[Wb1234]

I'd get rid of coaches. They bring nothing much to the game except "dark arts" and whinging.
If we got rid of them and had captain/coaches the game would be better off - that is a fact.

Someone has to do to post match press conferences but otherwise yeh

 

[T-Boon]

“They’re all doing their job. We’ve got to play by the rules like everyone else.
“You adjust to how the game is being officiated and then it changes again and they’ll crack down on something else.
“You’ve constantly got to roll with punches with the game, where it’s at and how it’s trending. Those who adapt the quickest win.”

This quote from Josh Hannay is funny.
He is admitting the coach just looks for little ways to cheat that the refs aren't focusing on then he complains that the refs notice this cheating trend and crack down on it then the coaches move onto the next cheaty thing.
FFS the coaches need to be better.

 

[Canard]

It's like they got together and said "How can we change the rules to make the Storm even more dominant?"

 

[kurt faulk]

It's like they got together and said "How can we change the rules to make the Storm even more dominant?"

More dominant? They were losing against the saints with 20 mins to go. Then the saints folded like a cheap tent.

Kick out on the full - storm try
Next set, strip- storm try
Next set, interception - storm try
Next set, off load on the ground - storm try.

All mistakes were inside their 40.

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[Captain Apollo]

It's like they got together and said "How can we change the rules to make the Storm even more dominant?"

Substitute "Panthers" for "Storm" and you might be more accurate.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Vlandys clearly spends all his time in the salon trying to work around that botched ass hair piece than actually watching his product because if he cared to actually watch it he'd agree with us that it's total f**king shit

 

[Jetka100]

Perhaps they should have held their nerve with the change to the kick off rules

 

[This Year?]

I don't like the idea of pools or conferences.
Until we get a proper home and away season without Vegas, magic round, SOO in the middle of it or uneven number of teams the comp will never be fair.

 

[MRN]

It's two things imo.
1. More tries apparently means 'more excitement' to push the next tv deal. Also more tries is more ad breaks on FTA. Probably trying to get the breaks up there with fumble league so ad revenue alone is worth more.
2. Pressure to get clubs to agree to his ridiculous kick off rule to 'alleviate momentum building against one team'.

If the refs had to front the media or a panel or whatever and be held accountable and actually have to justify individual restarts and decisions, in lieu of legitimate penalties, which is what the rule was designed for in the first place, no way would their explanations hold up, and they'd more then likely pull their head in and back off flapping their arms around because they wouldn't want to be under the blow torch for so long every week.

But PVL would never let that happen while they run his agenda on the field.

 

[Trifili13]

I don't like the idea of pools or conferences.
Until we get a proper home and away season without Vegas, magic round, SOO in the middle of it or uneven number of teams the comp will never be fair.

And the Dragon's get more 40:60 calls go their way

 

[no name]

In 2 weeks time they will instruct the refs to stop giving 6 agains, and then say "see the teams learnt to be more disciplined". Everyone will know it's bullshit, and we'll be here again in 2 months after they've had to resort to another mid-season crackdown.

It’s frustrating because refs don’t focus on certain things for ages so a standard is set. They then completely change the threshold for a set restart/penalty. Fans get used to the new standard of everything getting picked up and then they relax the threshold again.

 

[Pippen94]

I don't like the idea of pools or conferences.
Until we get a proper home and away season without Vegas, magic round, SOO in the middle of it or uneven number of teams the comp will never be fair.

If there's 20 teams conferences will only come into play in finals.

 

[Pippen94]

It's two things imo.
1. More tries apparently means 'more excitement' to push the next tv deal. Also more tries is more ad breaks on FTA. Probably trying to get the breaks up there with fumble league so ad revenue alone is worth more.
2. Pressure to get clubs to agree to his ridiculous kick off rule to 'alleviate momentum building against one team'.

If the refs had to front the media or a panel or whatever and be held accountable and actually have to justify individual restarts and decisions, in lieu of legitimate penalties, which is what the rule was designed for in the first place, no way would their explanations hold up, and they'd more then likely pull their head in and back off flapping their arms around because they wouldn't want to be under the blow torch for so long every week.

But PVL would never let that happen while they run his agenda on the field.

I mean, his job is to max revenue

 

[Iamback]

Are set restarts penalties? If they are, our game is on par with union in terms of number of penalties

Roosters/Rabbits - 9-11
Broncos/Eels - 12-7

Drua/Brumbies - 10-9
Reds/waratahs - 10-9

And ball in play?

For as long as I can remember in RL the good teams have tactically have away penalties.

When you guys went back to back pre PVL days, the media was whinging you and Storm giving away penalties defending your line.

We are seeing that with the 6 against.

Does anyone think the 2017 product was better then now?

 

[Wb1234]

I mean, his job is to max revenue

Why not go to quarters then if they don’t care about the fabric of the game

That would be proper footy then just with less fatigue

 

[Maximus]

It’s frustrating because refs don’t focus on certain things for ages so a standard is set. They then completely change the threshold for a set restart/penalty. Fans get used to the new standard of everything getting picked up and then they relax the threshold again.

Like this dumb disruptor, 1 vs 2 hand shit. A week before the season starts, they change the interpretation and put a big focus on it, now nobody has any idea what is going on.

 

[Valheru]

And ball in play?

For as long as I can remember in RL the good teams have tactically have away penalties.

When you guys went back to back pre PVL days, the media was whinging you and Storm giving away penalties defending your line.

We are seeing that with the 6 against.

Does anyone think the 2017 product was better then now?

Im not arguing any of that, what i am saying is long have we criticised union for the amount of penalties but our game at the moment has as many if not more.