There are 4 teams that they should do at present.
Broncos
Storm
Eels
Cowboys
All have the best stadiums and look professional and are at different levels of quality roster wise and would give a different level of understanding of standards and abilities within the NRL and different parts of the country too and their supporters and home environment.
I would add the Roosters and the Rabbitohs to the list once their shiny new Stadium is up and running and it would be a great way to promote the shit out of it too.
I'm sick of all the mediocrity within the game. Great stadiums and facilities show a sport that is professional and popular. Putting up the lowly Tigers and their pathetic nomads setup as the face of the NRL in a doco like this is so uninspiring to say the least.
The only reason it has appeal at all is because it is new from an NRL perspective. Otherwise, pretty ordinary really, watching a team get hammered most weeks, a coach that has no answers other then to yell and scream and swear till he is hoarse and a bunch of players that may as well be migrants that can't speak the language so just sit there mute and docile. And when they did one on ones with the players, well blow me down with a feather, how insightful were they...not. I fell asleep listening to them mumble clichés and boring nothings down the camera.
I mean really, what did we really gain from seeing that doco series other then reinforcing that the Tigers are not a very well run professional club that has a lot of work to do to get off the bottom of the pile, which we all knew anyway? As for the players and their TV presence or lack there of, the tigers wanted this doco, so if the players were on a leash to tow the company line, well then the management got what they deserved. The organisation came off like it is infested with dim witted and unimaginative boofheads that are more into looking cool with street gang hand signals and handshakes then focusing on and having deep thoughts on what actually puts food on their table.
In future I hope that the best and biggest clubs will be the focus of any new NRL docos. Not the pathetic and who cares types. I know I lost interest after the first episode and did other things while having it on in the background and looked up occasionally here and there. Otherwise I wasn't all that taken by it at all other then to laugh at the train wreck that the Tigers are and how non focused or engaged most of their playing roster is. The club admin, coach and definitely the players didn't do themselves any favours during that series that's for sure.
I hope NRL on FOX do a doco series again, but this time hopefully with coaches and teams worth watching. Imagine the ratings if they did the 3 biggest clubs in the NRL the Storm, Broncos and the highest rating football team in the country Parra? Now that would be worth the watch, and I can assure you I wouldn't be doing the dishes while it was on.
