Vlandys is right that if CTE becomes a major issue in the NRL like it is in America with the NFL we may not have a game. But we also might not have a game if fans turn the TV off after seeing players being sin binned for the slightest high tackles.
Thing I'm hating now is it feels like the more disciplined team is winning rather than the better football team.
I think you need to be careful that you don't get hoodwinked by V'landys' emotional rhetoric. He often likes to make out that the world is crumbling and that he is iron man of rugby league in order to justify his poorly thought out initiatives. As long as there is fan interest will always be a game of rugby league. The game has been played for over 100 years which suggests that it is going to take something cataclysmic in order to prevent people from playing it.Vlandys is right that if CTE becomes a major issue in the NRL like it is in America with the NFL we may not have a game. But we also might not have a game if fans turn the TV off after seeing players being sin binned for the slightest high tackles.
I think you need to be careful that you don't get hoodwinked by V'landys' emotional rhetoric. He often likes to make out that the world is crumbling and that he is iron man of rugby league in order to justify his poorly thought out initiatives. As long as there is fan interest will always be a game of rugby league. The game has been played for over 100 years which suggests that it is going to take something cataclysmic in order to prevent people from playing it.
One issue that I am surprised that no one has discussed yet is the amount of power Peter V'landys has. In my opinion, no one person, regardless of their position, should have the authority to make decision of this magnitude. I think we need to put things in place in order to dilute the Chairman's power, at least when it comes to make decisions which affect the on-field product. If a policy as game changing as sin binning/sending off players for high tackles was going to be introduced then it should have come down to a vote between the games stakeholders.
Thing I'm hating now is it feels like the more disciplined team is winning rather than the better football team.
That is a fair point on Annesley. However, I think a lot of the apprehension about this new sin bin/send off directive is because there has been a lack on transparency on the NRL's part over the implementation of this policy. For instance, who came up with initiative? Who was consulted? Were options other than sin bins and send offs considered? All these questions and more need to be answered. If the NRL and V'landys had been more open with the implementation of this new directive then maybe he wouldn't be copping so much abuse.It feels like Annesley is using this opportunity to implement a number of his proposals after being previously being rejected by the rules committee
Though lawyers/ health experts must have also provided a report on concussion
But to see the number if HIAs go up to 19 from the season average of 9.7 for a weekend, says we are seeing the reverse effect initially
Or we are seeing more milking
That is a fair point on Annesley. However, I think a lot of the apprehension about this new sin bin/send off directive is because there has been a lack on transparency on the NRL's part over the implementation of this policy. For instance, who came up with initiative? Who was consulted? Were options other than sin bins and send offs considered? All these questions and more need to be answered. If the NRL and V'landys had been more open with the implementation of this new directive then maybe he wouldn't be copping so much abuse.
Exactly right. What baffles me is that there is a precedent for this sort of approach working. It happened before in the 1980s with Jim Comans and his approach to cleaning up the game from acts of blatant thuggery. He basically handed out harsh suspensions and it fixed the problem; obviously there were still fights but the malicious acts were pretty much eradicated.that’s the thing. Where we find ourself now should be the very last resort to sort it out, not the first. Theyve compromised the games and turned fans off, and that should always be last resort. Maybe try much harsher post game penalties first then introduce this if that didn’t work. No one disagrees with the intended outcome but the way they’ve gone about it so far is extremely poor imo,