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  1. Quidgybo

    South Island - Te Waipounamu

    Expansion talk in recent years has generally assumed a second New Zealand NRL team would be based out of Wellington. The major issue in Wellington is that the only suitable stadium is the Cake Tin, a big oval stadium that fundamentally works against the NRL‘s match day experience. While a small...
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    TWO new Brisbane teams

    Wild speculation. What if the NRL surprises everyone and accepts not one, but two of the Brisbane bids? For example a true second Brisbane (city) team based in the inner suburbs and playing full time out of Suncorp, and another team based in either of Greater Brisbane’s major growth areas in...
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    Accountability for Commentary Mistakes

    After the penalty against Napa on Gagai at the end of the first half, Ray Warren had a rant about it being for a strip with two men in the tackle after the first man had dropped off. He angrily asserted it was a bad rule and needed to be changed. One problem, Ashley Klein very clearly states...
  4. Quidgybo

    NRL Exiles

    In response to Steve Mascord's piece in today's Sydney Morning Herald... One of the RFL's big problems is that it is trying to balance a competition that has four or five teams with the support and resources to compete at an NRL level with another nine or ten teams working from a base closer...
  5. Quidgybo

    Effect of Five Metre Rule

    Today's players are bigger, stronger and faster than ever. They are full time professionals that spend their entire career training, studying and being coached in every aspect of the game. And they push the rules and their interpretation to the absolute limit, looking for every inch and every...
  6. Quidgybo

    Incorrect Commentary

    This is sometimes touched on in other threads but I thought it deserved a thread of its own - commentators incorrectly calling refereeing mistakes. It annoys me no end when commentators rant about a supposed refereeing mistake when either the replay shows the referee was possibly correct or the...
  7. Quidgybo

    Logic of the Play The Ball

    OK, see if you can understand my logic here... Under a long established rule of the game if the man playing the ball steps on the sideline while getting to his feet it is play on. The man playing the ball is apparently out of play between being called held and touching the ball with his foot...
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    NRL Expansion Hopefuls To Learn Future By July

    http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/time-to-expand-on-best-options/story-e6frep5x-1226282013883 Again inexorable tied to the progress of television negotiations. Again to target specific bids/areas for further progress. And again requiring bids have a strategy (not necessarily already...
  9. Quidgybo

    No winners as NRL, cricket clash catches out Channel 9

    http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/no-winners-as-nrl-cricket-clash-catches-out-channel-9-20120206-1r1xt.html The NRL should be using situations like this as leverage for the next TV deal. By that I mean we should be demanding something we want in return for agreeing to go on GEM for...
  10. Quidgybo

    Franchised International League

    A lazy vacation day, time for another crazy idea. Could the top tier of international Rugby League be more successfully run as a franchised league instead of as a series of strictly representative Tests and tournaments? General Concept League to be 100% owned and operated by RLIF Annual...
  11. Quidgybo

    Expansion, Manly and the Coasts

    A very specific question. What would it take to convince Manly to move to the Sunshine Coast? Why would you want to do that? Well there are a few obvious reasons, the television networks want more Queensland teams to drive ratings in Brisbane. Manly has invested some time in the Sunshine...
  12. Quidgybo

    Offseason Hypotheticals: 40/20 "1st Down"

    A left field rule change that extends the existing 40/20 attacking kick concept... "If a team receives possession inside their own 40 (except from a line drop out) and, without the count restarting, they are tackled inside their opponent's 20 on or before the 5th tackle then the count...
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    Technology and forward passes

    We all know that video refs aren't allowed to rule on forward passes. The reason generally given is that cameras are not in line and the angle can be deceptive for humans trying to judge correctly from replays. It occurs to me if we can have Hawk Eye accurately judge the path of a cricket...
  14. Quidgybo

    Pocket Ref during Goal Line Attack

    A few weeks back the refs tried an experimental position where both the control and pocket ref spent substantial time on the same side of the ruck marking the defensive line. Regardless of the success or otherwise of that trial, it does raise the question of whether there are some circumstances...
  15. Quidgybo

    Return to one ref a huge success says Dean Ritcie

    http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/return-to-one-referee-a-huge-success/story-e6frep5x-1225859043047 This article annoys me a little bit. The change to dominant and ruck referee was clearly not the only change introduced last weekend. Even before the matches were played it was announced...
  16. Quidgybo

    The best way this could play out

    I think the best way this could play out for the game is actually if the scandal gets bigger in the coming weeks. If more than one other club comes forward or is exposed as engaging in similar practices in the next say month then I think the game will have no choice but to declare a general...
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    WCC on Oct 16th?

    I notice the SL Grand Final is being played this year on Oct 2nd, the same weekend as the NRL Grand Final. With the first match of the Four Nations being played in Wellington on Oct 23rd and a rest/travel week immediately after the Grand Finals, I wonder if any thought is being given to playing...
  18. Quidgybo

    Clubs Face $280m Black Hole

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    Grand Final Live Nationally

    Amazed this hasn't got a thread yet. Both for the potential indications it gives of Nein's attitude to their NRL rights in the post Eddie era; and for Fox's machinations. If the NRL gets lucky on the GF contestants and the AFL unlucky on theirs, a national ratings win could be the first step not...
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    Match Scheduling in 2008

    Under the new broadcast contract, the NRL, Nein and Fox moved to a new scheduling system where the season was scheduled progressively further in advance (out to 12 weeks at one point) as the year went on before before being slowly brought back in (to 4 weeks) by the final round. Although the...

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