Seriously how does the NRL expose itself and a clubs players, coaches and members to this?
Isn't their job among other things to protect the game? How is having a system of self reporting TPA's and not knowing of EXACTLY what each club is spending looking after the interests of the game?
Parra's mismanagement is disgusting. We all know this. We all know we need to accept the punishment. The NRL should've been all over this like a fly on shit 3 years ago. Even as we sit here now, 1 ...thats right 1 club has been thoroughly investigated.
At the press conference Mr Weeks was asked if they need to look at the way clubs report self TPA's' and he replied 'We think it's fairly effective'. haha mate, let me tell you, if a club with 0 internationals (prior to this year) is competing against a team with 9 internationals and the club with 0 is covering up $3 million worth of rorting, these are massive red flags and as such not conducting a similar thorough audit on the 15 other clubs is gross negligence.
NRL management has let us fans down as much as our own pathetic incompetent management. The NRL as the governing body should never have let it get this far. The players, coaches, tv networks and perhaps above all else us fans have been let down by those at the top running this borderline amateur comp.
