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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 2918292, member: 8315"] I can sorta see where [USER=2210]@Bucking Beads[/USER] is coming from but for different reasons. For years I followed every game week in, week out, rain, hail or shine. I haven't done that for a few years now. I find NRL games very frustrating to watch - even Friday night's game, as good as it was, was marred by substandard refereeing and incompetent, amateurish coverage and even the aftermath, like the JT shoulder charge being ignored shows how weak and inept the NRL is. Teams shouldn't be going into the sheds with a handy lead only to start being penalised in the second half for things they've been doing all game. It's at the point where you can predict the ebb and flow of a game. Teams trailing on the scoreboard get loaded up with soft penalties and favourable 50/50 calls to make it a contest. No doubt some fans find it 'close' and 'entertaining' but I find it on par with shit you'd see in the WWE. These days I only watch the Broncos game. If you've set aside a few hours of your life every weekend for decades I don't think you can go cold turkey. Habits are tough to break. I really wish we'd hung on in 2015 as that would've been the perfect jumping off point. I had actually made the decision to give the NRL a rest for a while last year. The World Cup really revitalised my interest in the sport. It took until December but we finally got some quality rugby league. I didn't care about blow-out scorelines as I believe a team's dominance should be reflected on the scoreboard. Their coverage was also a lot better than the garbage Nine dishes out. I canceled my Foxtel years ago but when I do catch it at a hotel or something I can see the rot there as well. It might not make much sense on the surface to be commenting on a game you seemingly have no interest but I can certainly understand it. [/QUOTE]

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