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Message: [QUOTE="Astroboy, post: 2214784, member: 1994"] Do you seriously believe that the TV people and the advertisers would not prefer a live decider in the 3rd game? Big reason - it's called money. Money has an unhealthy and undue influence on a lot of things these days, and I would not be the first, by a long shot, to suggest here that it might subtly and occasionally happen in RL. How many people have mentioned before what the NRL and Ch9 would prefer the outcome of games, preferred grand final lineups etc to be? Plenty! In fact, generally I try to distance myself from that and believe there is still some purity in sport and that not everthing about it is just a business now, but last night my resistance cracked. If Test cricket results can be fixed by greedy people, it would be silly to assume RL is immune. Related to this was that a band's performance before the game, in the past purely a performance for entertainment, was reduced to being an ad for an online music selling company (have a look at the background screen when they were playing), which was sad and infuriating at the same time. All I was saying before was that some mistakes made last night by people other than players, when you look at their blatant nature and when they were all added together, one could not help at least raising an eyebrow to the possibility that they weren't all purely mistakes. Not saying that was definitely the case but one could not be blamed for thinking it. At least there can be no suspicion over the genuine-ness and unpretentiousness of the Queensland spirit - perhaps the only genuine thing left in Origin now. Cheers. [/QUOTE]

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