The Virtual Terrace • Re: Structure for next season onwards
Someday wrote:
How come in aus they do not have p and r and dam site more teams then us and are better then us
A) There are only 16 sides in the NRL. And most of them are in Sydney, with 3 in Queensland.
B) RL is more of a national sport over there, with far better media rights. We are at best the 4th thought of sport (and as with all other sports so far behind football it's almost a joke), and almost an after thought with regards any media coverage.
C) There infrastructure is superb. Both with regards player development, and local clubs (who are mostly affiliated with an nrl club). We aren't bothered about infrastructure much (if we were they'd be a reserve league). They also quite regularly do on the road games to strengthen there appeal.
D) Some of there iniatives (like having 2 referees), have worked and made the game more appealing. We can't sort out the ruck area, and as for the obstruction rules. They're trying to speed up the game, we seem to be trying to slow it down.
And let's face it, the NRL is so insular the only thing there bothered about is SOO, League then some way behind international.
Statistics: Posted by luke ShipleyRed — Sat Apr 07, 2018 2:30 pm