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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 2924840, member: 8315"] There is a balance. On one hand, referees need to enforce the rules. On the other they can't blow the pea every second because that ruins the 'flow' of the game. As someone else said, the NRL need to instruct the clubs that 30+ penalties will not be tolerated. On the Sharks Storm game Slater, Chambers, Segeyaro all should've been sent. What we're seeing now is the end result of a code that can't decide whether it wants to be a professional sport or an entertainment product. I was wrong - I thought for sure the NRL was happy to go over the cliff and end up with a product that is two steps away from professional wrestling. Remember, by hook or by crook, a 'close' and 'entertaining' game is the order of the day. That just happens to coincidence with a record breaking television rights deal but that's totally unrelated. Move along, nothing to see there... Seeing them wrench back the other way has been refreshing. Dinosaurs like Gould and Johns are asking what if the fans leave with this penalty blitz? Well, they're leaving anyway. They're going to watch WWE. It's more realistic. Average crowds are the lowest they've been in over a decade. Dwindling ratings to the point where Fox Sports were caught out doctoring the crowds with CGI to make it look like more people were attending. A telltale sign of a healthy sporting code!!! This is the first genuine attempt I've seen from the NRL to convince the sporting public that the code is a legitimate sport and somehow try to convince thousands of lapsed fans that ran away screaming that it's safe to come back. [/QUOTE]

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