The DT are never happy. They still think they run the game and as such should be treated like privileged people who we mere mortals should let them do what they want and accept whatever they write. Problem is they live off "confected outrage" style stories, so if you give them what they want they just find a new angle to attack you with. Hence why would you give them the kind of access they want when they so obviously have an agenda to stick a proverbial knife in your back?
Until the DT stop writing agenda laden crap the players nor the NRL clubs will give them anywhere near the kind of access they want as they just aren't trusted.
The coaches are by far to blame for most of the media drama and standoff behaviour. They are the ones that don't want the players to en masse to talk to the media for fear of the players giving to much detail over time about the coach and tactics.
They know that if all the players were made available to the media every week that slowly the players would develop relationships with the media and then get to comfortable and start to "slip" on the inner workings of the club. Coaches live on secrecy and mystic(Bennett is the champion of this) and don't wan't it to change.
The NRL is the one that must
DEMAND that this be changed for the betterment of the game as a whole. They should have made this mandatory when the players were negotiating their player agreement, but again the NRL missed that opportunity and only took the players word on this happening without any real binding contractual agreement in place.
No surprise that nothing has eventuated since and the players and coaches are still thumbing their noses at the media and the media strikes back with the mightiest weapon known to man, the poison pen.
