NRL good news

[Canard]

What an odd statement?


The last 10 of each half is where the majority of action happens

 

[heights]

I think a lot of people have forgotten that the old mid-week Cups, the Amco Cup, Tooths Cup and whatever else it was called played on a a Wed night during the season at Leichardt Oval was played over four quarters.

No one ever said it wasnt rugby league. No one ever even questioned it

 

[Canard]

I think a lot of people have forgotten that the old mid-week Cups, the Amco Cup, Tooths Cup and whatever else it was called played on a a Wed night during the season at Leichardt Oval was played over four quarters.

No one ever said it wasnt rugby league. No one ever even questioned it

It wasn't 25 mins with 5 min breaks.

It was essentially a quick drinks break like they do now in hot weather.

 

[CC_Roosters]

I think a lot of people have forgotten that the old mid-week Cups, the Amco Cup, Tooths Cup and whatever else it was called played on a a Wed night during the season at Leichardt Oval was played over four quarters.

No one ever said it wasnt rugby league. No one ever even questioned it

20 minute quarters is fine by me. But ONLY if rolled out across the sport globally, if done right it could be a commercial boon for the sport in terms of TV rights as being able to sell a guaranteed amount of ad space for every game would be a cash bonanza.

 

[Loose Cannon]

It wasn't 25 mins with 5 min breaks.

It was essentially a quick drinks break like they do now in hot weather.

Drinks breaks I could tolerate, with play resuming from the same stoppage in play, not Quarter football with Kickoff restarts. Give 2/3 minutes for commercials at the next natural game stoppage after 20. Reduce interchange to 8,or even 6, as a trade off.

And as somebody said earlier, if they want longer games, don't make the game 100 mins, just stop the game clock and get 80 mins of ball-in-play.

 

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Juniors, officials to receive NRL rewards

NRL
9:20am Sat 13th December, 2014


Junior Rugby League participants will be able to attend up to 26 matches free of charge in 2015 as part of a new on-line junior pass system unveiled today.

NRL Head of Marketing, Lewis Pullen said the new system, now known as Play NRL Rewards, was the most generous of any sporting code in Australia.

The new program will be open to all registered school and club players aged four to 15 as well as registered officials, coaches and volunteers.

Participants who register to play will receive an email shortly after registration explaining how to log on to the new site and start redeeming tickets to the games they wish to attend.

Participants will also receive a Play NRL branded plastic card from their junior club which will provide clear instructions about the new program.

All tickets will be delivered via email and can printed at home.

Registered players and officials will be eligible for ground admission access to one game per round for all 26 rounds of the Telstra Premiership.

Mr Pullen said the old scheme relied on a manual delivery process to get the passes into the hands of volunteers and junior players.

"This process was sometimes problematic and unreliable," he said.

"The new system will enable participants to go online soon after registering to start redeeming their tickets.

"Our aim is to encourage junior players to attend Premiership games and watch their heroes play.

"We also want to reward and recognise the many officials, coaches and volunteers who put in so much work to make our junior club and school competitions a success.

"So if we can make the rewards easier to access there is no doubt that more junior players and officials will attend games and this can only be good for the game."

The new system will enable junior fans to attend up to 26 Premiership games free of charge and registered participants will be able to secure tickets on-line at least two rounds in advance.

The new approach follows consultation between the NRL, NRL clubs and many stakeholders from the junior rugby league community.

The NRL is hoping to launch the program at the beginning of February, well in time for the start of the Telstra Premiership in March, 2015.

http://www.nrl.com/juniors,-officials-to-receive-nrl-rewards/tabid/10874/newsid/83260/default.aspx

 

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Play NRL Rewards

REWARDING AND RECOGNISING OFFICIALS, VOLUNTEERS AND JUNIOR PLAYERS

NRL are making improvements to the Junior Pass program (also known as the NRL Pass). The new program, which is called ‘Play NRL Rewards’, will be launched in time for the 2015 NRL Telstra Premiership season. Eligible participants will be entitled to one (1) FREE ticket per round of the NRL Telstra Premiership (conditions apply). Participants will therefore be able to attend 26 games free of charge in 2015.

WHAT’S CHANGING?

The main improvement is that the program is moving on-line. Plastic passes will no longer be used to gain access to the stadia. After registering to play on the LeagueNet website, participants will receive a welcome email with their login details. They will be directed to the ‘Play NRL Rewards’ website where they will be able to choose the games they wish to attend and start redeeming their free tickets. Tickets will be delivered via email and can be printed at home.

WHY CHANGE?

In previous years it has proven difficult to get plastic passes into participants hands in time for the start of the season. By moving online the NRL will be able to provide participants with access to the rewards website within a few days of registration. They will then be able to start redeeming tickets immediately. With the new program the NRL will able to provide participants with a far superior level of service compared with years past.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

The program is offered to all registered club and school players aged 4-15 (please note: players must be born on or after 1st January 2000 to be eligible for the program). In addition to players, the program is also offered to volunteers, coaches, officials and school officials who are involved in rugby league. The program is offered to participants in NSW, QLD and VIC only.

WHEN WILL IT LAUNCH?

The program will launch at the beginning of February 2015. At this stage all registered participants will receive their welcome email with their login details. This will give participants plenty of time to visit the ‘Play NRL Rewards’ website in advance of the season. Any participants who register after the launch will receive their welcome email within a few days of registering.

VALID EMAIL ADDRESS!

In order for the NRL to provide participants with their login details to the ‘Play NRL Rewards’ website it is essential that a valid email address is provided at the point of registration (in LeagueNet).

WHY OFFER THE PROGRAM?

Our aim is to encourage junior players to attend games, watch their heroes play and get behind their team. We also want to reward the many volunteers, coaches and officials who put in so much time and hard work to make our junior club and school competitions a success.

NEXT STEPS

Here at Rugby League Central we’re busy getting the program ready for the launch in early 2015. We’ll be in touch in the New Year with more details.

http://www.playnrl.com/play-nrl-rewards/

 

[taipan]

Yeah yeah. The same old line from the fanbois. If in doubt compare to gallop.

The afl approach is exactly what smith takes on every issue. And the commission. They blindly copy everything from vfl and nfl. We'll be wearing singlets and helmets soon.

The vfl had no viable and interested franchises but expanded anyway. We have multiple options that would grow and enhance the game and we ignore them.

As for spending money on grassroots being a 'waste of space', whatever the f**k that means, you'll be pleased to know the NRL is doing precisely f**k all for the sport at this level outside western Sydney despite the billion dollars. What a way to grow the game. And when I say 'the game' I mean the sport of rugby league, not the NRL. I know smith and co and his fan club don't understand the difference.

Well Gallop was his predecessor and held the post for 10 years.Who the hell do you compare him with?.Donald Trump!!!
Smith doesn't hide from the ASADA deal like Vlad did and the latter stuff it up.

What Smith has stated this year is correct,re top rating TV/lobbying with gOvts(which Gallop hadn't a clue),$80m in the kitty ,getting a decent deal for rl juniors at NRL games,touch on board,a tougher stance with idiots,and a CEO who actually is aggreesive in promoting the code personally..

It's quite simple,if you don't have a decent amount of money like the AFL has for example,your efforts to try and grow your junior base are stymied ie a waste of time.
How the hell do you know every area outside of Sydney is getting no assistance .I say BS>There are areas that are neglected, but there are others not so.

That's why Smith spent time in far Nthn Queensland as an example early last year,to get a lowdown on the situation there.

Do you throw good money after bad by throwing a team into places like GWS.Glad you are not the Financial Head of the CBA.

The current NRL clubs need to be strong financially for a start.And who is to say thee NRL have not narrowed the field down to certain expansion areas.

All you can do is whine and whinge expecting everything to happen at the snap of a finger.F*ck research,viability of expansion clubs.We have seen what happened at GWS/Nthn Fury/GC Socccer/Rebels in Melbourne/Newcastle Jets and CC Mariners.Losing money hand over foot,due to trying to put pins on maps.


Let's bring back Moffett from his bike ride,that should send you in raptures.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

If you have to compare to gallop to make this mob seem competent you're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

You're not even toeing the party line. They're not rugby league juniors anymore. They're NRL juniors. That's what the sport is called now. The NRL has unilaterally decided so. Wonder where they got that idea from...

 

[taipan]

I will spell it out clearly,he is light years ahead of Gallop.

I am not involved in any party,except the ones I stage myself.

If you can't see changes for the better,you are looking at the world with shut eyes.

I couldn't care if they called the sport Farnarkling TBH.
NRL is hardly earth shattering .Especially if it distinguishes itself from Vichy/penalty ball.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

NO ONE is saying gallop was better. The fact you have to bring him in to make the current lot look better speaks volumes. They now have a billion dollars and no news ltd. They'd f**king want to be better. And yet what have they really achieved? All they have done is homogenised the sport into a brand (copying vfl) that does not reflect the whole of the sport, over-reacted and f**ked with the rules (gallop style and by copying the NFL), told the refs to change their interpretations mid year (gallop style), over-reacted against one player for off field behaviour when he criticised them but ignored more serious issues as if they didn't happen (vfl style), treated internationals like a non-event (trying to be the nfl and vfl), the list of non-achievement goes on.

This admin has simply not lived up to the hype in any way, despite their own back patting, and the fanbois either talk about gallop or claim they haven't had enough time in response. They have all the cash and all the freedom to make decisions they need but have done little more than talk and spin for two years.

 

[Lockyer4President!]

If you have to compare to gallop to make this mob seem competent you're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

You're not even toeing the party line. They're not rugby league juniors anymore. They're NRL juniors. That's what the sport is called now. The NRL has unilaterally decided so. Wonder where they got that idea from...

Does it matter that they're pushing the NRL brand, really? I don't see NFL/NBA/NHL fans complaining about it. The AFL copied them because they're successful, now the NRL is doing the same. It's a non-issue imo.


As for Smith, who would you compare him to? Vlad/the new guy at the AFL? Gallop at the FFA? Pulverlol at the soon to be Amateur Rugby Union?

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Why compare to anything? It should be a purely criterion based assessment. Have they grown the game? Have they improved it? Given their resources have they even gone close to expectations and potential? The answer is no on all counts. Have they made superficial changes designed to make them look like they're doing something and talked the talk? Absolutely.

Rugby league is not NRL. The likes of the vfl and NFL can do what they like. They're single-country sports and will never be anything else. Trying to homogenise the sport into the NRL and unilqterally frig with the rules is bad enough but they're not even making it national never mind international.

 

[oikee]

The whole point of having a commission and a World-class CEO is to improve the code and learn from past mistakes,.
In other words, dont repeat them.

Turning the game into 4 quarters will do nothing to improve the game. It will create more problems, like interchanges, fatigue, and boredom for fans having to sit through 4 periods.

I have outlined the reason 3 periods work better. The game would get more benefits from trailing 3x30 periods first.
Going to 4 quarters will create a whole lot of new problems for the code.

Anyhow, talking about making the same mistakes of the past. Expansion, needs to be done right.
Look at what works instantly, and what does not work.
Examples.
Get a second team into Brisbane. ASAP. Create a world class derby.

Dont expand to Adelaide, that is what happened to QLD. Instead of putting a second team into Brisbane, they put in the Gold Coast.
And we can all see how that has gone. It has taken away from Brisbane having a massive derby in the big city.

So forget adelaide, bring in Melbourne two in the future.
Same as NZ, dont bring in Wellington, you will just create another Gold Coast.
Bring in Auckland 2.
A second Auckland team will create New Zealand's largest derby.
Wellington will just drag more funds, time and effort.

Our code has got to wake up to Big City derbies.
They are the future, having your tribes both in the one city creates the big time atmosphere and fills the stadium.
Unlike Brisbane, that has to support both home and away crowds.
It is common sense to have 2 teams in big cities. The AFL are already 10 years ahead of us in this sense. If we go down the path of adelaide and Wellington, we will be another 10 years behind.

We have got to stop making dumb mistakes.
We make dumb mistakes by placing bad as our club captains.
It takes a decade to recover from these stupid mistakes.

 

[Lockyer4President!]

Why compare to anything? It should be a purely criterion based assessment. Have they grown the game? Have they improved it? Given their resources have they even gone close to expectations and potential? The answer is no on all counts. Have they made superficial changes designed to make them look like they're doing something and talked the talk? Absolutely.

Rugby league is not NRL. The likes of the vfl and NFL can do what they like. They're single-country sports and will never be anything else. Trying to homogenise the sport into the NRL and unilqterally frig with the rules is bad enough but they're not even making it national never mind international.

Comparison is how you measure success mate. C'mon...

And the NBA and NHL don't seem to have hurt their respective sports internationally. If anything having a super-strong and well known league has helped popularise their sports around the world. You can see this with SoO in PNG or the NRL in NZ and Fiji, etc.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

But they're not trying to rename their sport. No one calls basketball NBA. But that's what the NRL want to do with RL.

You don't have to compare people with people to measure success. In fact no organisation does this anymore. You measure them against a criteria or outcome. Comparing smith with gallop means nothing and is a cop out for the smith fan club. Comparing him and his admin to a set of criteria makes more sense. And not one they set themselves because this admin is all about show and spin and talk.

 

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2014 NRL season wrap up video with the NRL executive.

https://www.nrl.com/2014-nrl-season-wrap/tabid/10959/contentid/710325/tabindex/1/default.aspx

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

But they're not trying to rename their sport. No one calls basketball NBA. But that's what the NRL want to do with RL.

It would be brilliant if the RLIF agreed to rebrand the entire sport "NRL Football"...

Then each competition could define themselves with the titles "NRL Something Premiership" (Australisian, Pacific, Riverena, etc...)

You don't have to compare people with people to measure success. In fact no organisation does this anymore. You measure them against a criteria or outcome. Comparing smith with gallop means nothing and is a cop out for the smith fan club. Comparing him and his admin to a set of criteria makes more sense. And not one they set themselves because this admin is all about show and spin and talk.

Even you are comparing DSmith to other people!!!

The difference is, where everyone else uses a real person who worked within similar constraints, you create a hypothetical benchmark that is so perfect it cannot be achieved. DSmith is not some great dictator God-King. He has to deal with conflicting interests, limited resources and snail paced bureaucracy.

You think he should be doing better?? Find a REAL WORLD example of someone that would...

 

[East Coast Tiger]

If you think a measure of success is being better than a news ltd puppet you will accept any kind of mediocrity.

Every single professional company and organisation judges its leaders and staff on criteria. If you think large companies sit around a board room comparing their CEO to the last bloke instead of judging by outcomes you're a f**king gimp.

 

[taipan]

If you think a measure of success is being better than a news ltd puppet you will accept any kind of mediocrity.

Every single professional company and organisation judges its leaders and staff on criteria. If you think large companies sit around a board room comparing their CEO to the last bloke instead of judging by outcomes you're a f**king gimp.

Well based on the criteria so far ,he is doing more than OK.Without comparing gimps.
The code has money behind it,has clubs being made professionally run and accountable,and effort is being made to improve the International game.
Shareholders in fact compare CEOs with prior ones,ask Qantas shareholders for starters.

The code is now run more professionally than ever in its lifetime.Ask the Tigers,Newcastle when they were basket cases before the new admin stepped in.

No professional CEO on this earth has not made a mistake along the way.

You live in dreamland.