Why should the ARL be any different than any other sports association ?
Go down to the local bowls club and you'll see 'Crackerjack'.
Where there are 'incorporated' clubs that need some organisation, you'll find the amateurs organising them; and good on them. My gripe is that some are in a tad deeper than they should be.
RL needs to extract something out of somewhere or it'll disappear. Peter Fits' in the SMH is spot on; Rugby will inherit the game, 'cause the people that run their clubs are not amateur administrators, they are 'toffs'... solicitors, etc.
The RL clubs who can hold their own have the Politis' & Delmege's running the show. Not ex-front rowers like Fitzgeralds and the Peponis'.
For what it's worth AFL & RL can argue over the Oz market all they like because the real money is in Europe and the US and that's where the best administrators and business savvy people will be.
Oh, what is Rugby doing ??? They're looking at getting some US 'franchise(s)' involved in the Super 14. How long before that pink jerseyed mob and their mates from France want to play in that comp ? Now that's where the money will be. Methinks Gaz has might be getting $100 grand for each tackle, but has he jumped too early ?
