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Here are fifteen of the dumbest things said about rugby league and the NRL in recent times, in no particular order:
1. The NRL is better off under the current acrimonious News Ltd/NSWRL/QRL leadership than the Independent Commission (or News Ltd has been great for rugby league in this country).
2. The NRL should never expand to Perth, ever, because of the demise of the Western Reds in the mid nineties thanks to the Super League war fiasco.
3. The Adelaide Rams were an ARL or NRL invention (or the NRL should expand to Adelaide before Perth, Brisbane Mark II, Central Coast, Central Queensland or Papua New Guinea).
4. Souths, the Roosters, the Panthers, the Storm and/or the Warriors should be merged, relocated or punted.
5. Greg Inglis, Paul Gallen, Kurt Gidley and especially Darren Lockyer are overrated players who have enjoyed overrated careers (and Kurt Gidley is solely responsible for the Blues’ current woes in State of Origin).
6. Soccer, rugby union, AFL, NFL and/or NHL are all more popular than rugby league in Papua New Guinea.
7. Rugby league’s very modest international standing cannot and will not improve because rugby union is bigger internationally, soccer is the true world game, NFL is much bigger in the USA, etc.
8. The NRL’s new television deal will be the same as or only marginally better than their current one (and removing News Ltd’s current conflict of interest will be on no real benefit to the game).
9. Central Coast (and Central Queensland, Ipswich and Brisbane Mark II) must be the next team to enter the NRL because it is the fastest growing region in the country, and if we don’t the AFL will take over that region.
10. Andrew Johns is an intolerable racist and Joel Monaghan whole heartily supports the legalisation of bestiality – and both men represent the 460 or so men who will play first grade this year and the millions of fans of rugby league around the world.
11. Mad Monday is a modern progressive practise and the outrageous drunken antics of Joel Monaghan and co are just harmless examples of boys being boys.
12. David Gallop is a News Ltd spy (and is solely responsible for the NRL’s current dud TV deal, the off-field dramas of 2009, and anything else you don’t like about the game).
13. The salary cap should be removed (and the Broncos should be allowed to become the Manchester United of the NRL, and the competitiveness of the NRL has had nothing to do with the increase in TV ratings over the last 10 years).
14. The Melbourne Storm are doomed and serve no real purpose to the NRL (so they should be punted, or merged, or relocated to wherever).
15. If the NRL is ever shown on TV at decent hours in the southern states, it will have no real bearing on the future growth of the game in those states.
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