Peter V'landys - New NRL/ARLC Chairman

[I Bleed Maroon]

Great article by Dean Ritchie and there needs to be a lot more talk about this issue. We should have a dedicated thread to Dark Arts/Dodgie coaches etc. They are the real problem. The NRL needs a dark arts committee.
The article does not even touch on all the dark arts play around bombs.

I like it. We'll call it the Craig Bellamy award.

 

[Chimp]

"Win the floor" is interesting terminology. Where did you hear this or did you come up with it?

Are you being sarcastic?

I’ll take a risk and assume you’re not - it’s been in the rugby league vernacular for more than 20 years.

I think back to training sessions in the early 2000’s and can vividly remember my coach (who was a Great Britain international at the time) hammering us with it every training session.

We had some very specific detail we had to follow, or get a hammering at training the next week. With the ball - win the floor, find your front, when getting up to play the ball, tuck your knees up to you belly, left and down to push up off the floor, ball placed on floor with right hand, rise to your left foot, rise and play the ball in 1 action with your right foot…. Rinse and repeat about 60 times in the training session.

In defence, all the old Melbourne grub tactics, control the head first, twist it in the direction you need them to turn to get them on their back, pressure on their wrists, elbows, shoulders to force them over.

Simple game rugby league - what was true then is still true today

Win the floor, win the game baby!

 

[mongoose]

Reddit has a bad hivemind mentality. It could be 40%-60% on an issue, but you will only see the 60% opinion having visability. Once an issue is decided you rarely see the opposite opinion. I would also say the fans on reddit are slightly more casual fans. Whereas the fans here, on the NRL forum specifically are more fans of the game overall. Lots having been here through years of stagnation. Seeing movement in crowds and TV Ratings are a relief after that period and would get them singing the praises of whichever person was in charge.

I am not a avid reddit user but at least they are not obsessed about what AFL is doing like a big chunk of this forum.

 

[Reflector]

Reddit has the same credentials to speak on anything as what the monsters who raped/murdered Anita Cobby have to talk about how to treat nurses

Redditors are the kind of people who would all but suggest poor Anita deserved her fate and rejoice in her death if she was on the record as having the "wrong" opinion on a single issue...

 

[King hit]

Redditors are the kind of people who would all but suggest poor Anita deserved her fate and rejoice in her death if she was on the record as having the "wrong" opinion on a single issue...

Ironically those are the same people who claim to be the ones of tolerance and empathy

 

[Captain Apollo]

NRL overhauls training rules in landmark player safety move

The move to restrict training loads is aimed at mitigating injuries, including player head injuries, which continue to be a major issue for all contact sports.

www.abc.net.au

 

[mave]

So they want to mitigate injuries at training, by limiting training, whilst also speeding up game day to warp speed play.
Makes sense to someone I suppose.

 

[newc18]

So they want to mitigate injuries at training, by limiting training, whilst also speeding up game day to warp speed play.
Makes sense to someone I suppose.

From what I understand, there is growing evidence that the driving factor for CTE is repetitive sub-concussive impacts.

So this rule change is basically aimed at reducing the amount of sub-concussive impacts a player is exposed to. I don't imagine slowing the game down would do anything.

 

[Captain Apollo]

So they want to mitigate injuries at training, by limiting training, whilst also speeding up game day to warp speed play.
Makes sense to someone I suppose.

Yes. I'm sure Eliesa Katoa would agree with you

 

[T-Boon]

So they want to mitigate injuries at training, by limiting training, whilst also speeding up game day to warp speed play.
Makes sense to someone I suppose.

It makes sense to me. The sport itself makes no money out of training days. The only days that make money are game days. Thus game day has to be as income producing as possible (be entertaining).

The NRL needs to have a good think about Monday through Thursday 7.30pm.

I've always found it interesting that the NFL and college football recognise this very same fact by restricting practices in a big way.

Ban wrestling practice.

 

[taste2taste]

From what I understand, there is growing evidence that the driving factor for CTE is repetitive sub-concussive impacts.

Correct. Boxers dont get punch drunk from thier 50 professional fights, they get punch drunk from the thousands of rounds of training.

Union and NFL brought in restrictions on training contact years ago. NRL finally dragging itself into the modern day.

 

[Wb1234]

NRL overhauls training rules in landmark player safety move

The move to restrict training loads is aimed at mitigating injuries, including player head injuries, which continue to be a major issue for all contact sports.

www.abc.net.au

Wonder if clubs actually follow or pay lip service

Suspect the latter

Reality is that’s the best way to prepare for actual games up to a limit of course

 

[Captain Apollo]

Wonder if clubs actually follow or pay lip service

Suspect the latter

Reality is that’s the best way to prepare for actual games up to a limit of course

I think these rules have only just come in.

That said, if they break them, I suspect players who are in the RLPA will report it to the RLPA who will report it to the NRL.

That's what often happens in the NFL. They've had a few issues with NFL clubs breaking similar restrictions on contact drills in training over the last couple of years. Every time the NFLPA reported the club to the NFL, and the offending club was subsequently punished.