The guru - Warren Ryan
A lot of the financial problems would evaporate if the game received even a reasonable percentage of the money gambled on rugby league. It should come back to the sport. The game is entitled to a share of that money. There are millions and millions punted on league games every weekend.
Keep working on making the game attractive to watch. It's getting boring, monotonous and awfully predictable. I have a feeling the game is almost too hard to play. It's a frightening prospect, taking the ball forward and getting hammered in multiple tackles on a weekly basis.
I can see why playing overseas is an attractive option. You get paid without the battering.
Eliminate the gang tackle by reducing the numbers out there. I've believed for a long, long time there are too many players on the field. Think of all the problems you'd alleviate with fewer players. Thinning out the numbers would attack the root cause of the on-field problems. You'd get them to play some football from the back field. The obvious solution would be to make the field bigger, but they can't do that. Grandstands aren't going to be moved. It's not practical to increase the size of the fields. So instead, why not have a couple less players?
The under-20s is a wonderful laboratory where you could conduct experiments that will help the game in the future. Use the national youth competition to experiment with rules that would encourage football to be played coming out of your own half. The battle to come out of your own half is currently so grim and predictable that we at ABC Radio choose that time to go "round the grounds". By the time we come back, no one has missed a thing.
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How many people have to point out this part of the game before coaches finally come to the party, they get paid a fortune to come up with game plans that 12 year olds could come up with.
If they are scared that fulltime footballers can't catch the ball in their own half, then train players that can, or the club should employ a coach who has some imagination and guts.
A lot of the financial problems would evaporate if the game received even a reasonable percentage of the money gambled on rugby league. It should come back to the sport. The game is entitled to a share of that money. There are millions and millions punted on league games every weekend.
Keep working on making the game attractive to watch. It's getting boring, monotonous and awfully predictable. I have a feeling the game is almost too hard to play. It's a frightening prospect, taking the ball forward and getting hammered in multiple tackles on a weekly basis.
I can see why playing overseas is an attractive option. You get paid without the battering.
Eliminate the gang tackle by reducing the numbers out there. I've believed for a long, long time there are too many players on the field. Think of all the problems you'd alleviate with fewer players. Thinning out the numbers would attack the root cause of the on-field problems. You'd get them to play some football from the back field. The obvious solution would be to make the field bigger, but they can't do that. Grandstands aren't going to be moved. It's not practical to increase the size of the fields. So instead, why not have a couple less players?
The under-20s is a wonderful laboratory where you could conduct experiments that will help the game in the future. Use the national youth competition to experiment with rules that would encourage football to be played coming out of your own half. The battle to come out of your own half is currently so grim and predictable that we at ABC Radio choose that time to go "round the grounds". By the time we come back, no one has missed a thing.
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How many people have to point out this part of the game before coaches finally come to the party, they get paid a fortune to come up with game plans that 12 year olds could come up with.
If they are scared that fulltime footballers can't catch the ball in their own half, then train players that can, or the club should employ a coach who has some imagination and guts.
