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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 2815829, member: 8315"] Good stuff, [USER=2221]@Porthoz[/USER] That article brought up a lot of issues that I think about, things that are ruining my enjoyment of Rugby League and questioning whether it's even worth following any more. I'll comment on a few things the article mentioned. Firstly, I think the NRL are not interested in crowd figures. The bread and butter of the game is now television ratings. Rugby League is no longer a sport. It is a 'product' - filled with artificially close games that make good entertainment but hardly a good sporting contest. The scheduling of games is unfair but personally it suits me so I am a hypocrite. I no longer have Pay TV as I figured that the Broncos get the lion's share of free to air games and I no longer have interest in the rest of the competition. The television shows are just puff pieces by and large and the ones that offer any sort of serious analysis on the game and the issues its facing are few and far between. I don't regret getting rid of it one bit. Saved heaps. Having said that, it's a disgrace that only three free to air games are broadcast in this day and age. It shows its about ratings and not about growing the game's fanbase by making it as accessible as possible. Thursday night football is also a joke but it gets good ratings so that's something I guess. Much and more is made by fans of other teams about us getting a lot of 7 day turnarounds but if it was a genuine leg up we would have at least one more premiership by now. I don't think it has any impact at all. The refereeing will always get dismissed as sour grapes from the losing side when what it's really about is consistency. Go back and watch last week's game. Smith could have been penalised about 30 times for flopping into a tackle. Again, I'm a hypocrite because we need that sort of stuff around Origin time but it was a terrible spectacle to watch. Also, I'm not upset that we lost as we dropped far too much ball to complain about being hard done by but fair dinkum - can't they just officiate the game properly? Seriously, does anyone get a bad feeling when watching NRL these days and you see a team leading at half-time and appear to have the game well in control? Almost like clockwork they start getting heavily penalised for infringements that have been let go all game and they either get run down with their opposition making a 'thrilling comeback' or they just hang on to get a 'miraculous escape.' You reckon the coach tells his team to just forget their discipline and start making lots of errors. Of course not. It's nonsense. It belongs in the WWE. Maybe the Broncos and Cowboys need to have 10 golden point games in a row before we start catching on... I don't see how anything can be done. The NRL would be perfectly content with empty stadiums as long as the TV dollars are there. Once TV viewing numbers and subscriptions take a dive they might take a look at their 'product', realise what a turd it is becoming and take it back to being a sport again. [/QUOTE]

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