http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/g ... 6268087364LACK hats may not be altogether welcome at the rugby league boardroom table this week, but the celebrations and head nodding that have gone on around yesterday's rugby league handover ceremony must be tempered with some genuine concerns.
While the Fairfax media has heralded the new NRL commission as the greatest thing since Dally Messenger laced on a boot, sensible heads in Sydney league circles know better.
The new eight-member commission has many limitations, a genuine lack of league expertise and a brief that goes way beyond what it can possibly achieve.
Let me say from the outset that it is a very good thing that News Limited has withdrawn from the administration of the sport. Media organisations should never get involved in the management of anything but media. Moreover, News' involvement has merely served to provide those with already vested interests another excuse to blame anyone but themselves for all of the sport's woes.
These same doomsayers and critics will now realise that the real problems that beset league were not within News Limited's powers to solve. They go much, much deeper than that and the NRL commission is about to find out exactly how complex and troublesome they are.
The first massive hurdle the NRL Commission will face is the management of expectations from clubs, player managers, the players and the fans. There will not be an instant fix or a sudden influx of gold from coffers that do not exist.
The view that millions of dollars will all of a sudden be freed up for the game's stakeholders is a nonsense. Big talk surrounds the great new television deal. Yes, there will be more money. However, the pay day the struggling NRL clubs are sweating on is likely to fall way short of their expectations. Even if the deal hits the big billion dollar mark, none of it will be enough to save several clubs which are so badly in debt, and so poorly managed, they cannot survive.
Then, of course, there are the politics of league.
NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
- Xman
- Coach
- Posts: 13919
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:09 pm
- Team: Essendon
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
King-Eliagh: ...I believe [RL] is popular in all the other states and territories, bar tasmania.
- Raiderdave
- Coach
- Posts: 16700
- Joined: Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:10 pm
- Team: Canberra
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
aren't they just ?cooee wrote:Ahh News the bitter ex.
chucking tanties all ova the place
stamping their feet
howling at the moon
its real funny s.hit.............
RL SOO II 4.194 Million veiwers
RL SOO I 4.068 Million
NRL GF 3.968 Million
VFL Grand Final 3.620 Million
SOO III 3.364 Million
NRL Prelim 2.219 Million
Kangaroos V NZ 1.214 Million
Sookerwhos V Japan 238K
RL SOO I 4.068 Million
NRL GF 3.968 Million
VFL Grand Final 3.620 Million
SOO III 3.364 Million
NRL Prelim 2.219 Million
Kangaroos V NZ 1.214 Million
Sookerwhos V Japan 238K
- cos789
- Coach
- Posts: 3284
- Joined: Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:43 pm
- Team: Wookie is a failed pathetic ugly woman
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
So if rl was smart they'd cut the Raiders and Sharks now, so when the money comes in it is effectively more to the surviving clubs.
Nice try Cos.
-
- Seniors
- Posts: 359
- Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:50 am
- Team: Newcastle Knights
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
- Xman
- Coach
- Posts: 13919
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:09 pm
- Team: Essendon
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
Hey, a noob!justanotherleaguefan wrote:Bourbon Bec at her finest!
Welcome.
King-Eliagh: ...I believe [RL] is popular in all the other states and territories, bar tasmania.
- Raiderdave
- Coach
- Posts: 16700
- Joined: Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:10 pm
- Team: Canberra
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
speaking of chucking tanties ............cos789 wrote:So if rl was smart they'd cut the Raiders and Sharks now, so when the money comes in it is effectively more to the surviving clubs.
RL SOO II 4.194 Million veiwers
RL SOO I 4.068 Million
NRL GF 3.968 Million
VFL Grand Final 3.620 Million
SOO III 3.364 Million
NRL Prelim 2.219 Million
Kangaroos V NZ 1.214 Million
Sookerwhos V Japan 238K
RL SOO I 4.068 Million
NRL GF 3.968 Million
VFL Grand Final 3.620 Million
SOO III 3.364 Million
NRL Prelim 2.219 Million
Kangaroos V NZ 1.214 Million
Sookerwhos V Japan 238K
- Beaussie
- Site Admin
- Posts: 9920
- Joined: Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:38 pm
- Team: Sydney Swans
- Location: Sydney
- Has thanked: 232 times
- Been liked: 51 times
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
Good point. The clubs in western Sydney lead by Gould at the Panthers and the Titans on the Gold Coast led by Searle are screaming out for help in the war with the AFL. What a sorry state of affairs.cos789 wrote:So if rl was smart they'd cut the Raiders and Sharks now, so when the money comes in it is effectively more to the surviving clubs.
-
- Seniors
- Posts: 359
- Joined: Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:50 am
- Team: Newcastle Knights
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
Thank you, *******Xman wrote:Hey, a noob!justanotherleaguefan wrote:Bourbon Bec at her finest!
Welcome.
- Xman
- Coach
- Posts: 13919
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:09 pm
- Team: Essendon
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
You're welcome, I thInkjustanotherleaguefan wrote:Thank you, *******Xman wrote:Hey, a noob!justanotherleaguefan wrote:Bourbon Bec at her finest!
Welcome.
King-Eliagh: ...I believe [RL] is popular in all the other states and territories, bar tasmania.
- King-Eliagh
- Coach
- Posts: 13126
- Joined: Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:23 pm
- Team: Parramatta
- Location:
- Has thanked: 16 times
- Been liked: 11 times
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
Seems we have a new fight club member who is off to a great start!
xman wrote:KE, why is an even comp important?
- cos789
- Coach
- Posts: 3284
- Joined: Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:43 pm
- Team: Wookie is a failed pathetic ugly woman
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
Yes, he really stuffed up parafeel's claim about GB rl.King-Eliagh wrote:Seems we have a new fight club member who is off to a great start!
Nice try Cos.
-
- Coach
- Posts: 2403
- Joined: Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:48 pm
- Team: Sydney Hills Eagles
- Location:
- Has thanked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: NRL Independant commission - good luck with that!
Oh look who's talking!Raiderdave wrote:speaking of chucking tanties ............cos789 wrote:So if rl was smart they'd cut the Raiders and Sharks now, so when the money comes in it is effectively more to the surviving clubs.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: Ahrefs [Bot], Bing [Bot] and 57 guests