Lacklustre Limp Lamented Larry
Cactus by name, cactus by nature. Your contribution Cactus is minimal and just to "sound off" on other people with ideas and thoughts. This is a debate about the future of our great game Rugby League and putting the4 National into NRL but unfortunately, Cactus you are part of this terrible Cancel Culture that we have in Western society. Rather than adding to the debate and listening, you throw out condescending gibberish.
Perth Red is so right, he is very insightful and I read his stuff with some hope for the future, if we can get more people like him involved in our great game of Rugby League. And Get rid of Donkeys is also on the mark as well with his comments.
It’s a very sad indictment on the Sydney suburban NRL clubs that they have to rely on the $13 million grant from the NRL to cover the salary cap and ancillary costs involved in running an NRL club. The Sydney clubs are plagued by poor crowds and yet some clubs are still getting very good sponsorship and some clubs that have highly profitable leagues still struggle to make ends meet. Let’s face it the landscape will change completely when the clubs that are highly reliant on poker machine revenue not only for NRL clubs but all rugby league clubs throughout this nation . Some will survive, some will not. You only have to look at Balmain and Newtown to say it won’t.
Studying the organisation chart of the NRL front office administration under V Landys and understanding what talents we do have and where there are gaps would be a good start. I think the whole thing needs reorganising. We need to recognise the people with footy skills and put them in positions where they can sort out footy things. Business leaders need to be put in places leading the strategic development of the game and pushing that forward. There needs to be more Project Appollo teams set up to address the issues I have listed. We have the worlds best kep’t secret in Rugby League and the time to reveal that secret is now.
There is a very big difference between setting a strategy and executing it as Vlandy’s has just done and administration which you are now trying to paint him into. I will agree that Vlandy’s is not the administrator type but that is why Abdo is there to do those running the game type things however there is a ton of neglected strategic stuff that has been hanging around sometimes for years that Vlandy’s could (and I hope will) get his head around.
1. Finalise the tv contracts
2. Develop the NRL’s digital app
3. How do we market this game better (particularly with the ball and chain that is Ch9)
4. How do we expand our reach (Australia, Globally)
5. How do we restructure our finances and make clubs stronger ?
6. How do we expand our game (teams, womens juniors)
7. What about Origin Scheduling ?
8. FTA tv rights 2022 and beyond
9. How do we grow our income ?
10. What about the international game ?
11. How do we make the state leagues stronger?
12. How do we fund and upgrade suburban grounds?
13. How do we increase junior participation?
When he started as Chairman, he did mention bucket list items like suburban grounds and country footy, but I don’t think he anticipated that he was trying to save the game from a global pandemic.
And with point 9, “How do we grow our income?”, the game has to stop relying on broadcast revenue. It’s got to find other major income streams.
We are so far behind it isn’t funny and while a lot of good things have happened we desperately need someone to lead this game and realise its full potential. That could be a man like Peter Vlandys