So Warriors being in Australia and it raining every week had nothing to do with crowds?
The cap increasing shows growth? Isn't that what the sport should be doing? You can argue there could be more growth but that is just speculation
Where did I say they weren't capable?
You complained the clubs and players have too much power. Yet should have more deciding how the game should be played?
You are talking about the current year? Besides the Warriors, there hasn’t been that much of an excuse. People have been cooped up inside and should be wanting to go out.
As I said beforehand, crowds have always been a concern and have trailed fumbleball significantly for time immemorial and we haven’t done enough to remedy that. That’s definitely not all about V’Landys but it is not liked he has solved the conundrum either.
The growth has been good sure but that salary cap increase is terribly inflated. The game hasn’t grown that much in the last ten years so they are taking that growth money and putting all towards players. Now personally I don’t think that is sustainable - we need to actually spend money on grassroots, development, marketing, ways to actually promote club growth.
You inferred it by suggesting that clubs would essentially dictate how it played out. Now, once again no other industry would essentially change something without consulting other stakeholders first. Why for example would it have been too hard to do it after the end of last season or better yet give clubs 12/24 months to prepare so that they can change and adapt their squads to reflect the new style of play? Why couldn’t you test it in match situations first to see how teams or players reacted and thus work out the positives/negatives before implementing the rule change? Why did we even need the rule change when you could have just enforced the current rules better- wouldn’t that have been the easiest thing to do? There were plenty of options available but he just chose the most pig headed and arrogant way of doing it.