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Prominent NRL commentator and journalist Paul Kent has this week followed the lead of his AFL counterpart Mike Sheahan in an attempt to dissect…
Thanks for the tip, he was just the inspiration for writing it.
I actually agree that the officiating is as good as it has been, but you couldn’t be more right about the respect issue.
For them to be as good as a human can be in officiating they need to have confidence in whatever situation they’re in that they’re making the correct call.
It would almost be impossible to be this confident when you have two captains and six payers from either side blowing up after every decision, two coaches on high emotion ready to blame anyone else for their loss in the after-match press conference and then a host of journalists and analysts, as you said, dissecting every call to the Nth degree midweek.
I feel for them, but the hypocrisy of it is that I’m here arguing they aren’t consistent enough.
One thing the NRL must fix above everything else
I disagree, the conference idea not only addresses the integrity issue but is proven to do so – predominantly in European football leagues (Check out the Belgian Pro League).
Not only this, but it places more emphasis and prestige on the minor premiership and makes a 14th vs 15th Saturday afternoon game worth watching towards the end of the season.
It also ensures the fairest way to draw any competition and that is to have every club play each other the same number of times, the only issue I have with this model is how we would allocate home games in the conference section? I guess another issue its that the AFL wouldn’t get their two showdowns and derbies a year, but for the neutral fan the system would work perfectly.
Is the move towards three conferences a good one?