The Bronco's are a protected club & they are making the NRL integrity unit look like a bunch of morons. Their players can get away with anything. Roberts has had multiple issues swept away with the media getting limited info or nothing at all. The Lodge issue is a ripper. Paul Kent on 360 said there is a media ban on Lodge so they are at a loss to find the truth. Funny that when Hayne turned up for pre season with the Eels there was media everywhere. Why don't they do the same to the Bronco's. They just give up & it all ends up being ( Nothing to see here ). The Eels have had a few players stuff up over the last couple of seasons with Cory Norman, Semi & Kenny having issues, However they were plastered all over the media & treated like criminals. None of them did anything like Lodge did. He threatened people's lives in a home invasion. How is this guy not in jail & that wasn't his first offence.
P.S. Is there anything this current NRL board is good at. It seems every aspect of the game is in damage control. Refs are crap, Bunker is crap, Juniors are disappearing, country rugby league clubs are folding. Wow they really are making a mess of things. I'm sure many of you will have more cases of area's in our game that are in a state of disarray.
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I don’t know about the lodge one, the home of rugby league channel 9 did a pretty comprehensive story about it and showed the video not painting lodge in a good light, it wasn’t swept under the rug by the media but definitely by the integrity unit and dickless Greenberg it was!!!!
Before the commission took over the previous administration was pathetic and I looked forward to the new independent commission running the game better than it had been for many years. Independent administrations have been successful in other sports but the clowns in our commission are just as bad as the losers they replaced. They squandered a large part of the media rights money without accounting for it publicly, let grass roots development fall behind the AFL's invasion of traditional league territory, made precious few successful innovations in the game. They seem to not have any feel for the game and Todd Greenberg sounds like Malcom Turnbull or any other politician who tries to muddy the waters for game's fans. They piss on our backs then try to tell us it's raining.
The Integrity Unit is just a sham, all they do is pay lip service to anyone they think will listen while making decisions that fly in the face of their smarmy statements. Hipocrisy be their name!
And let the Broncos wriggle out of every indiscretion their players or administrators find themselves in. I could go on all day about their inept administration.
If the NRL doesn’t get its act together and very soon then you’ll find a huge exit of people from Rugby League and especially the younger generation who will turn to AFL or Soccer if it isn’t happening already.
Junior numbers are in decline, ignore this at your peril
Agree Mack, kids just don't seem to do sport these days. Over protective mums wrapping their kids into cotton wool isn't helping.
I had coached in the Parra comp for over 10 years, Last year was my first in a decade not coaching. This season my son has gone back to playing at Cabra in the 16's & they have had trials canned because of lack of teams to play against. In all the years I was involved & that was as a club coach & president the NRL never once did anything for us. I never had anyone from the NRL approach us about anything at all. They don't exists is junior rugby league & they have no impact at all. AFL post going up everywhere and most clubs would be flat out getting an NRL player to even turn up to anything.
Tod Greenburg, How about outlining exactly what the NRL is doing to assist junior rugby league.
RL has been dying for over 100 years if you listen to the naysayers. If RL is dyings'd hate to think what that means for Yawnion and Sokka then.
As much as i hate to say it soccer is light years ahead of RL especially crowed numbers and junior participation.
LOL!! On what planet are Sokka ahead of RL in crowds?? Their crowds are down massively off a very low base. And their TV ratings get pumped by the Test pattern, yeah they have great junior precipitation but they always have. The sleeping giant that is always sleeping. Gallop is doing his best to kill the sport.