You can't sack the media, true. But like organisations professionally run such as the NFL, you CAN (pre-season) stipulate guidelines to journalists covering the game as to what is and won't be tolerated during the season. Do you think the NFL would allow journos contracted to them to rubbish the sport the way not only Rothfield, but other people like Rabs and Gus in commentary (e.g. their negativity towards international RL) do? Or what about when Raaaaaaaay stopped calling a game on radio during the 2nd half because it was "too boring", about 10 years ago or so?
I just laugh at last year when that useless C-C origin match got a crap crowd in Coffs Harbour, and Raaaaaaaay called the radio station to rubbish the crap out of Dave Smith et al. (to the level of personally attacking him). Now, if Gallop had the power and influence to remove Gus from air for a few weeks in 2008 regarding that on-air barrage one Monday night after the SBW walkout of the Bulldogs, surely Dave Smith had enough balls to really give the ultimatum to Ch9 stating they wouldn't allow them to let Raaaaaay call games if he continued doing what he did. The NRL missed many opportunities doing things like that, not just with Raaaaaaay, but most of the folk from the Telegraph.
And I agree with Oikee regarding Paul Kent's comments. It is dangerous territory
Thanks. Someone said they cant sack these fools. I disagree. Paul Kent is not needed on 360" with Ben Ikin.
Sack him, tell him to promote the code and not rubbish the internationals and rep games or get out, for good.
If the NRL cant do that then the game is lost, because the media will just run the game into the ground, who is paying them. ??
Look, Kent has damaged the code. He lost a audience for the game, helped lose a audience.
Buzz, well he just needs to be let go. Find another outlet like Social media and bag the hell out of the old wrinkled one.
AFL rejected their inter-state clashes, and have no internationals.
If we keep moving down the path we are headed, then our code will end up a local code as well.
We are not far off that now. Origin is the only thing that really peaks most interest.
I will finish up my report and post it over the weekend. With these muppets putting the code down lights a whole new picture to why the game is and has struggled.
It starts and ends with media biase and bad commentators who really should be pasteurized, put out to pasture.
Sports worldwide thrive on the game, the skill of the players, and the good commentating that goes with that.
Rugby league has the best skills, and highlights equal to any code, yet we fail to capitalise on this, and Rabs and Gould need pasteurized as well.
They dont excite the masses like other callers from other codes can and do.
NRL needs a cleanout.
And we need to sell the skills and action of the game better.
We are so far behind other codes when it comes to selling our product.
We need change, like others need change and make change. Then they profit.
Our code is caught in some sort of dark age and cant progress.
I think it all align's around channel 9 and the hangeroner dinosaurs.
