Not much hope really for public opinion of the game when you have all sides of the media laying into the commission like this. His story is more full of holes than Swiss cheese. What would really be funny is if they oust grant and end up with Graham Samuel, he is a ball breaker that would see mergers of unsustainable clubs and dead wood cut loose.
Hes not really having a go at the ARLC, he is essentially saying the small cartel of club chairs want their influence back and the clubs on the periphery are awake to their motives and if push comes to shove will back Grant as the devil they know.
The minority are usually the loudest in these sort of things and if they were in the numbers they'd like us to believe they would have done something about it by now rather than cowardly hide behind 'unnamed club chairman' when running their campaign through the media over the last 24 months.
I think a compromise will be presented by the NRL that will never please the few playing politics but that will satisfy the majority of the clubs. Problem is those few outside the tent will continue their sniping as long as they don't get their way, but will have little other avenues once other clubs sign participation agreements, unless they get through their changes to the constitution, but if money is on the table I doubt most clubs will care enough about that to be a significant sticking point.
