I posted this in the Parra forum, but I thought I may as well post it here too.
If what is being reported is true, that the NRL(V'landys) is actually going to take or succumb to CH9's request to decentralise the game and give the clubs MORE power, then I give up.
The game will always be a freakin basket case and ultimately will be lucky to remain the second most popular football code in Australia, already down one from the early 90's when it used to be number one.
So let me get this right. The head of NINE reckons that the NRLC has failed in its duty to govern and strengthen the game and its investments, which is true at some level. But then as the solution demands that they relinquish their power to the most self interested group within the game, the CLUBS!
Wow, just WOW!!! And none of those dickwods, including Kent, have anything to say about this? Especially Kent who had very little to say about the clubs getting $13m and actually agreed at the time that the players deserved all that money, but now after the fact started to jump up and down that the game was living beyond its means and should never agreed to it in the first place. Yes Kent, some of us do have a memory. You initially made some grumbling remarks on your 360 show, but then within a few weeks you jumped on board and praised it as being the right move for the clubs and players, which it was, but hello....what about the GAME? Nothing to say about that? No I suppose not, well not until the COVID-19 outbreak, then you are a genius that could always see this coming. WOW!
No, this is the time you should be screaming and never shut up Kent about the CLUBS potentially getting all the power to run themselves, not like some pretend genius after the inevitable collapse of the game that will surely follow.
A strong benevolent dictator is what the game has always needed, not to be run by a committee of club execs. This is going to end very badly. Kind of like when the game was run under Humphreys and the 42 man committee that was made up of former club men and players that nudge, nudge, wink, wink knew what was best for the game. Talk about regression. This will only benefit the TV Networks who know by having a weak and divisive bunch of self interested rabble running the game it will never grow and therefore the price of the TV rights will always be compromised in their favour.
Oh dear...not good.
