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"I think Braith respects Ryles as a coach and what he's doing at Parra and obviously believes Lomax did the wrong thing, listened to poor advice and brought this all upon himself and did the wrong thing to Parra"
"Yep clearly hates Parra and has no idea what he's talking about"
"Agree. He was giving to Reed who clearly hates the Eels and Reed has no idea what he's talking about. "
"I'm putting last year down to the new style of attack and defence that had been implemented, as well as relying on Volkman at half. It was a disatorous 1st half without doubt, but I can't see that happening again. We should be much better prepared…"
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I agree with your sentiment ParraLAD and feel the game is generally being run very poorly both on and off the field.
I can't see another War happening though - it would spell the end for many clubs - probably including ours.
The last War was really simply all about Pay TV rights at the time and the fact that there were 2 Pay TV providers (Fox and OptusVision) vying for the same product.
Everything being said at the moment is really just bluster - as Al Hunt said elsewhere, Fox NEEDS league to stay relevant/viable, regardless of what Murdoch says publicly - it will all work itself out relatively quickly.
By the way, the deal with chanel 9, if analysed properly, is actually very good imo.
The combined efforts of Smith, Grant and Greenberg have seen the AFL become the number one sport. Says a lot for them.
So the AFL has only become the number sport since Smith got the gig lol??? Sadly since the SL war the AFL has been the number sport in the country. News ripped the game apart just so Rupes could have RL on his shiny new pay TV network. Then for the next 15 years we took unders on TV rights just so the old prick could recoup the money he lost. It was only because of Gallop getting the arse we finally got a decent TV deal that was parable with the AFL's. Sure Smith has made mistakes(hiring Greenturd the biggest) but at least we have a guy in charge trying to get RL a tv deal it deserves unlike Gallop who was happy to sign the first deal waved in his face. All this negative press the last week has come about because Smith stood up to News and didn't take their first and underwhelming offer.
They will continue to stir up trouble with BS articles like this while ever they don't have RL at the right price on Fox.
Way too many teams in Sydney
Should be 14-16 true national comp
4 Queensland teams
3 NSW regional teams
Newcastle , Central Coast , Wollongong
2 metro Sydney teams
1 ACT team
1 Victorian team
1 Adelaide team
1 Perth team
1 New Zealand team
A 2nd division comp consisting of
12 NSW metro teams
( jets, roosters, magpies, bears, rabbits, Tigers, sharks, eels, dragons, Bulldogs, panthers, sea eagles) this will match the current qld cup comp.
Another clueless non-Sydney person telling us how to run our competition. Funny how the Sydney comp survived as the best comp in Aus for 80 years before the non-Sydney clubs invaded & destroyed it.
If Qld is such a successful rugby league stronghold then why didn't they just stay in Qld & build up their own comp instead of invading ours???
The best way forward for RL is to kick out every non-Sydney club & go back to what was working so successfully prior to 1988... 3 grades every week, every club playing each other twice home & away in a structured logical sequence (not when clubs pick & choose to play), & every fan being able to attend every match every week without having to be rich enough to pay airfares.