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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 3263534, member: 8988"] I think we are starting to the fruits of labours that put a dull ideology of "fitter, faster, stronger" ahead of understanding why things like the salary cap were brought in the first place. I keep reiterating it but anyone making changes to this game needs to ask some very basic questions but they boil down to the following one: "why do fans watch the game? " The NRL seems to think it is simply for the "spectacle". It doesnt matter who wins so long as it is fast with great displays of athleticism. That's true of ballet and nothing else. Everyone cares who wins! The casual fans might care less and might prefer athleticism of a close score but they came because someone else cared about the result. Athletics singularly shows the epitome of physical performance right? So the track and field events are packed across the country right? WRONG The only time people care about those athletes is when the result of their performance has meaning. That must be the World Cup right when the finest athletes of each discipline gather to perform right?. WRONG again. It is the Olympics where some of the best athletes come (but not all as only 3 from one country can compete at a time) to defend the pride of their nation. Of course Bolt was watched because he was great right? Well partly.... You see they watched him because was great but was an underdog from a small country competing against the might of the likes of the Americans. And there you have it. Sport is about delivering narratives. Dramas, rivalries but above its sheer unpredictable nature. Sometimes the bad guy wins. Sometimes the underdog gets up and yes sometimes the ref cheats the rightful team. Any rule must help emphasise those traits or at best be unproductive to its enjoyment or worse (as in the 6 again rule) be counterproductive. The current laws are doing to league what neither AFL or soccer could ever hope to achieve: make the outcomes monotonously predictable. It's easily readable from 10 minutes in and short of a team doing a "titans" and having a collective brain fart, renders it attention for an outcome entirely unnessary. Worse the reliance on certain players in select positions means there is a widening chasm between the haves and have not when it come those purveyors of skill. I may sound just salty after another broncos thumping but think upon this: If not true why is one lonely signing of an aging halfback expected by almost every respected commentator seen as the progenitor of a top right table finish when the overall skill of the squad has declined? We will cheer them next year and forget all this but the game will still be as broken. [/QUOTE]

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