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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 2987389, member: 8988"] players disrespect for officialdom is pet-hate of mine too. It doesn't help that certain tv commentators make it an art to criticise a ref for one week being soft on interference in the ruck and the next for over-penalizing, particularly when they are CEO's of clubs on their day off. that sort of thing tends to flow through the ranks. Granted you want the media to be outspoken when they see a need to but at the moment its pettiness for ratings. How do you tell a player, emotional from 80 minutes of hard slog, with a decision of officialdom that may affect his playing future to practice self-discipline when coaches, CEO's and others they look up to do the opposite. For what its worth I want a game where players and coaches can speak their mind, but this needs to happen with thought and reason. I'm torn between wanting the characters of the sport to express themselves, but also for the sport's contests to be given due respect for the meeting of elite athletes it is. For me, the biggest problem is what is said pre-contest and immediately after. Criticizing the referees two days later seems to be less an issue unless it impacts on the way the game is run. So much of what is said it is encrypted in double-speak and innuendo to avoid fines that you wonder what the point of press conferences are sometimes. We need for those covering the sport to respect the game. Printing a players miss-interpreted or taken out-of-context words to fill a story narrative leads to trust issues by everyone. Likewise criticising players for being emotional on gameday is like putting red meat out for your dog and punishing him for eating it. The NRL has caved in to giving overt coverage and unprecedented player access, then attacks players for saying something stupid. Some of these players have suffered injury, others setbacks in careers and others still possibly the end of theirs. Sure the players need to display self-dicipline but so do a lot of others that have let the game down. [/QUOTE]

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