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The SANZAR judiciary has king-hit Rocky Elsom
Today
Two wrongs don’t make a right. The SANZAR judiciary, in my opinion, got its C.J. van der Linde decision wrong and also got its decision on Rocky Elsom wrong. On van der Linde, the mistake was made by being too lenient. On Elsom, the mistake was made by being far too punitive.
Bruce has made a very compelling case for the AFL to avoid the hubris of trying to storm through the rugby league heartland of the western suburbs of Sydney. There is no real AFL culture in Sydney, not even in the western suburbs. How many players developed in Sydney have starred for the Swans?
The AFL also needs to understand that because their game is totally dominant in every aspect of life in Melbourne, this is not the case in Sydney. In the Emerald City supporters tend to be most supportive when their teams are doing well. They become distracted and uninterested when their teams are not doing well.
As Bruce suggests, what happens to the crowd support when the Swans begin to go under?
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What I don’t understand is why there is no narrative attached to the coverage of the specific events. During one of the Olympics, I think it was Sydney, the broadcasters employed writers like Peter FitzSimons. Perhaps this the bleating of an old hack but why weren’t real journalists hired to write material for the television and news coverage. Instead, on all the channels, we got the most banal summaries of what had happeed from someone in Beijing, who could have been in Melbourne or Sydney or anywhere for all the colour and information was delivered to watchers.
I also don’t understand why say all the athletics events, women and men, aren ‘t put into a post-Olympic package so that we can see all the finals, if we want to. I watched a lot of the Olympics but did not get to see the men’s 800m and 1500m.
The same thing can be done for the swimming: the finals of the diving: rowing: kayaks etc
Endlessly repeated ‘interviews’ with medal winners asked ‘how does it feel?’ becomes boring even after one hearing, and increasingly painful with each repetition.
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Here’s a fearless prediction, unless the NRL changes its attitude to star players and adjusts the salary cap to accomodate them, players like Greg Inglis will be bought by rugby union. And it won’t be French teams, either. If Lote Tuqiri can be given $1 million a year by the ARU how much can they be expected to pay out for Inglis? That much and some more, I guess. Robbie Deans is getting the forwards to be more competitive. With players like Timana Tahu and Inglis etc the Wallabies could be red-hot by the 2011 RWC.
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