Why is the NRL administration trying to make rugby league something that it’s not?
Lately, when I open the newspaper or turn on the TV all I get is a face full of Todd Carney and no news about actual rugby league.
I now know how Todd Carney feels and quite frankly I’ve had enough. Thankfully Channel Nine has the right idea.
When he’s not being a great role model for the working class by throwing haymakers at chubby billionaires, David Gyngell, the head of the free-to-air broadcaster of rugby league in Australia, knows that he has an obligation to give us punters what we want.
Unlike the NRL administration, and their foreign CEO who keeps trying to change our great game, Channel Nine understands what rugby league is really about.
Lucky for us fans, we’ve still got “True Blue” Gyngell on our side to prove that the NRL is picking a fight it can’t win and to teach those independent administration upstarts not to bite the hand that feeds them.
I mean, who do they think they are? Rugby league is just a game whereas Channel Nine is a powerful TV network with heaps of other quality content like The Voice and The Voice Kids!
Channel Nine knows the game better than the NRL administrators and understands that getting people through the turnstiles and keeping us fans happy is priority number one.
Channel Nine understands that a Sunday afternoon in the middle of winter is devoid of all meaning if two Sydney teams playing a game of footy in a half empty stadium isn’t being televised an hour after it started.
Channel Nine understands that life is empty if Ray Warren isn’t calling every non-Caucasian player the same name and Gus Gould isn’t repeating one of his three trademarked catchphrases ad nauseam.
Channel Nine gets all of this because David Gyngell knows what the league diehards want. Why? Because he’s one of us.
The NRL administration has no idea about the game because David Smith more than probably grew up hoping to play foosballs for the Arsenal City Gunrovers. Time to go back to England Davey Boy!
Pommy Dave wants us to forget the good old days, when hard men were hard and soft men had nicknames like Brent “The Cat” Kite and Dane “Jane” Carlaw. He wants to ruin the game by doing things like removing shoulder charges and fights under the guise of player safety.
Fortunately, Channel Nine has the common sense to use past footage of players knocking each other’s heads off in their highlight packages, so we’ll never forget what ‘real’ rugby league is.
Despite this monarchist trying to ruin our game, we can rely on Aussie Dave to give us what we want, and all I can say is keep up the good work.
Thumb your nose at that politically correct crowd by employing past players who are either unable or unwilling to make it through a panel show without uttering comments loaded with sexist innuendo, or who hark back to the glory days of the Footy Show with their only slightly racist humour.
Continue to create meaningful and socially responsible advertising deals with alcohol and gambling companies.
Fight the foreign invasion in the NRL administration that’s trying to kill our game and turn it into some form of Limey, skirt-wearing netball.
So arise Sir Gyngell, saviour of rugby league, friend to the common man, defender of the punter’s rights and non-puller of weak, slappy-looking punches. Arise and continue your holy quest. As a league fan and cobber Aussie battler, I salute you!
I just have one favour to ask Aussie Dave.
Will you get rid of that Sterling character as a Channel Nine host? His opinions are extreme and ridiculous and he is a blight on the game.
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