That 15,000 figure is for all teams & every game played in the NRL this year.
A very poor result compared with other codes.
I have genuine concerns for RL[for want of a better name].I don't consider it RL anymore & I reckon many of the fans feel as I do!!
In general it is poorly administered,refereed poorly,too structured in the way it's played[boring just about covers it] & attended poorly.
You make very good points doyen.
I want to highlight something inparticular that you mentioned, the refereeing.
The refereeing just gets worse and worse every year and I honestly don't think they know what the rules are. Either that or they're completely bias and showing favouritism/hatred to certain teams.
The video refs are now a lottery too.
When a team takes a quick tap it nearly always gets called back so they tap it on the blade of grass they were meant too. What's the point of a quick tap then?
Referees still talk to players and stop momentum of other teams when penalties get blown.
Now the ref Cecchin is a complete goose who has it in for Souths. He made lots of bad calls our way today including standing right near GI when he was taken out trying to contest an attacking bomb Reynolds put up. Of course it should have been a penalty but wasn't.
Cecchin let Penrith stand offside the whole game and let Penrith take 1min and 10secs to take a drop out and listened to 6 Panthers players who approached him at once to slow our momentum. When Penrith flopped on us in tackles he didn't penalize them.
Doyen in the bay I was sitting in at the game we all started chanting we hate Cecchin with 10-15mins left.
Lucky the other ref was Maxwell and he gave us penalties for the Panthers obvious ildiscipline.
