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Can NRL CEO David Gallop and the other sporting codes capitalise on the AFL's Free-to-Air exclusivity with Channel Seven? (AAP Image/Dean Lewins)
Dave Gallop, get a pencil and jot down the following to discuss with the new commission when you have finished upsetting the rest of the fans you may have managed to miss of late.
The NRL needs to expand to a 20-team competition, and not into places like Perth or Adelaide.
We are talking, instead, of Ipswich, Rockhampton, Central Coast, Logan, Brisbane, Wellington or even the Riverina.
If you can’t get your head around what’s best for the game, listen to the fans, or just step aside and let someone else run the show. If three teams have the same home ground, maybe they are based a little too close together.
The NRL needs to adopt the franchise format and have 20-franchise licenses. If a team can no longer meet the NRL requirements, that franchise license can be auctioned to another group who can try and make a better go of it.
There are teams out there who can do a lot better than what some of the teams are dishing up lately. No offense Cronulla.
The McIntyre system needs to go. Adopt the AFL system and move on.
A team finishing sixth and getting hammered 40-10 in week one of the finals hasn’t earned a second crack at the trophy.
A new cap system must be introduced as soon as it is possible. The game can’t afford an increase in the salary cap. The money just isn’t there.
If you can’t find a solution, ask for submissions from the fans, or put forward proposals fans can vote on.
If the players want more money, maybe they should get a real job like the people who have to pay to watch them give a 60 percent effort (yes, Justin, we are talking about you).
The players should feel privileged to play the game, not act like we are privileged to watch them.
Sort out the Origin farce. Split rounds and players standing down? Not good enough.
If you get suspended in a club game, your suspension relates to club games. If you get suspended in origin, it should only relate to origin games. Not fair to fans, teams or players.
And playing an Origin game each year outside of Queensland or New South Wales? Hello? Let’s play the grand final in Tokyo. Stop being a clown.
Improve the standard of refereeing in all areas.
Knock-on. It’s simple. If a player propels the balls towards the opponent’s goal-line with his hands or arms it is deemed to be knocked-on.
It has nothing to do with which direction he is facing. My dog Rexxy gets it.
And put an ex-player in the video replay box with the referee. There are plenty out there who need a job and the referees obviously don’t have a clue about the rules.
Speaking of ex-players. Langer and Toovey are retired, why are they always on the field? If you can’t see they are coaching and acting as an extra defender you have poorer vision than the video referee.
That should be enough to keep the commission busy for a few months as they obviously haven’t done anything else yet except meet at the Tattersalls club, have a few whiskeys and watch videos of games from the 1980s when it was great to watch.
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