My point was why does the burden fall on me to prove your assumption wrong instead of you proving mine wrong.
A lot of the stuff that has been implemented by the NRL over the last few years isnt things that are readily recognisable, but are nevertheless needed for a modern professional sporting organisation. Areas such as club governance has been made a big focus by the NRL but you wont necessarily feel its immediate impact, so to Government lobbying, making the game more inclusive with introduction of touch & greater emphasis on womens rugby league, have all been introduced over a short amount of time because it had been previously neglected. If you look at where the NRL was a lot of structural things were missing and implementing them have been a priority. Place an additional 200m revenue into the old NRL administration and I don't think they would have known what to do with it.
A lot of the issues you have described are, in the schemes of things, fairly superficial, most of them have been issues in the game for decades. The NRL are in no way perfect and they will always make mistakes, but there is a lot behind the scenes that they are trying to build that doesn't get the headlines. I give them a pass mark so far and believe this year is probably the litmus test, with scheduling, interchange, transfer rules, tv rights, pathways and expansion all on the agenda it is a year where they should be making decisions now they have the structure in place to implement them.
