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Referee Ben Cummins sends David Fa'alogo to the bin with captain Roy Asotasi in the centre in the NRL Rugby League Round 25 South Sydney Rabbitohs v Sydney Roosters at Sydney Olympic Stadium, Saturday, September 1st, 2007. Sydney Roosters 26 bt South Sydney 12. AAP Image/Action Photographics/Colin Whelan
There are always some pressing issues which sports administrators have to deal with. But instead of putting off decisions and forming more committees, they actually need to do something.
The world of swimming doesn’t know what to do with itself after the swimsuits have made a mockery of the sport. The technology is that good that apparently Eric the Eel shaved twenty minutes from his personal best.
The powers that be have plucked their heads out from the sand and found an almighty fiasco waiting for them.
Sure cyclists have their own bikes and golfers have their own clubs, but the technology is monitored and controlled, especially in golf. If the man on the street doesn’t have access to an LZR Racer, then what is the point of it all?
In cricket, what is to make of the umpiring?
The ICC has to introduce some guidelines for the use of technology. Currently it is all a bit of a mess, as are neutral umpires. Maybe instead of two neutral umpires, an umpire from each of the competing nations should stand?
Over in the AFL, the tanking debate continues to fester away and it is going to do so until the AFL does something about it.
The reality is that there is no difference between finishing 9th and 16th, but there is a difference between finishing 16th and 15th.
It is no different to being 10 goals down halfway through the last quarter – reality sets in and you aren’t going to try as hard as you did at the start of the match.
There is no easy solution for this, but at the very least, the AFL has to do something or be seen to be doing something.
In rugby, the refereeing is overshadowing the game.
30 athletes are being led a merry dance by the man in the middle, who always seems to have a lot of enthusiasm for blowing his whistle. Rugby is a great game, but the officiating is its biggest obstacle.
Then there is the time-bomb that is rugby league. We are only ever moments away from the next scandal.
Good to see that the Maroons could come to the party, just as all was looking a bit quiet.
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