it's not a conspiracy anymore, todd greenberg is trying to destroy our game from within

Discussion in 'The Cesspit: Rugby League Discussion' started by Toolman, Mar 4, 2019.

  1. Toolman TR Man

    Teams finishing 9th and 10th could now be eligible to qualify for the finals by defeating the teams which have finished 7th and 8th. The top 6 teams will have the 'Wildcard Weekend' off, while 7th will meet 10th and the 8th and 9th teams go head-to-head.


    who the fuck would think this is a good idea? last year nearly every regular season game was skewed and ruined by nothing sin binnings, now they're going a step further and basically making the entire regular season pointless.
     
    Toolman, Mar 4, 2019
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  2. morgieb MC Burridge

    Yeah, that is awful. 8 teams is arguably too much as it is, 10 teams making the finals out of 16 is a farce.
     
    morgieb, Mar 4, 2019
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  3. Paddy P Orr

    The thought of 9th of 10th possibly winning or even just making the grand final is a joke to think of it.
     
    Paddy, Mar 5, 2019
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  4. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    I’m adamantly opposed to this as much as one could be but ironically and rather infuriatingly, it’ll probably improve the game from a purely financial standpoint. I mean how could it not? As I understand the concept, It means extra games which will be carrying the rubric of ‘finals football.’

    From a competitive, traditional, and footballing standpoint it’s absurd but the cunt will spin it and have the economics to dishonestly justify it.
     
    Maroon_Faithful, Mar 5, 2019
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  5. Magic AJ Parker

    If you want interest for the bottom teams bring a relegation model.

    To be fair this was actually Graham Annesley's idea. Todd Greenberg will just fall wherever public perception sits on the issue, which thankfully seems to be strongly against the idea.
     
    Magic, Mar 6, 2019
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  6. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    How would a relegation model work in the NRL though?
     
    Maroon_Faithful, Mar 6, 2019
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  7. Toolman TR Man

    maybe some hope that they won't be continuing their disastrous sin binning nonsense?

    Changes to the way referees will control matches have convinced Matt Cecchin to return to the NRL ranks after visa complications and a decision by Super League clubs to postpone the introduction of two whistleblowers scuttled his plans to move to England

    While waiting for his visa, Cecchin has been in regular contact with new NRL head of elite football operations Graham Annesley and he immediately advised him of his desire to resume refereeing after last year quitting because of the constant abuse and disillusionment with the way match officials were instructed to control games.

    Cecchin, who received death threats after correctly disallowing a late Tonga try in their 2017 World Cup semi-final defeat by England, revealed how he had a discussion in Melbourne with Cameron Smith amid the fallout from last season’s controversial Storm-Sharks match in which he blew 37 penalties.

    "Cam pointed at me and said ‘why don’t you just referee the way you have done’. I said Cameron, it is important as a squad that we all referee the same way. He accepted that," Cecchin said.

    However, he readily admits he didn’t like the style of refereeing in the NRL last season and decided to move to England as Super League is the only other professional competition in the world.

    "Coming off the England-Tonga game there was the trauma caused by that and there was the change required by me last year to officiate the way that wasn’t natural to me," he said.

    "It was important to me to referee the way all the other squad members did, it would have been easy for me to be the outlier and say I am going to do what I have always done but that is not fair on the other referees or the players or the teams that require a different approach.

    "That was part of the attraction of going to England, the way that they officiate over there is very different to the way we did last year. From what I have heard and the discussions I have had with squad members there is a definite shift in the way we are going to officiate this year and that style of refereeing suits my natural game."





    on a side note, i had no idea he way gay
     
    Toolman, Mar 9, 2019
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  8. Cribbage RG Cribb

    It's not even just the extra two finals games. The bottom teams will be alive longer if they only have to finish tenth to keep their season alive, which will keep their fans interested longer and the ratings/crowds up for that little bit longer. So you're even more right than you realised.

    I do think the Super League War fundamentally changed the way the rugby league governing body works, from a position of trying to raise funds for the end goal of improving the product, to basically the reverse now where they only improve the product to make more money. They usually go hand in hand but this is an example of where it doesn't quite work.

    That's not to say it wouldn't have happened without the Super League war as it was already progressing towards that and it's happened in other professional sports and in other countries where there didn't have such a thing, but it certainly sped it along.
     
    Cribbage, Mar 9, 2019
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  9. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Oh and just in case anyone wondered what my position on this was, and didn't just automatically assume that I'd hate it given I already think the top eight is too many teams... I hate it. :p

    I especially hate that they're trying to spin it as a "wildcard round" as well. It's not a wildcard round, it's just a top ten finals system with a slightly unorthodox way of dealing with the first week of finals. It's really not very different at all from a more orthodox top ten finals system tbh.
     
    Cribbage, Mar 9, 2019
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  10. Maroon_Faithful M Faithful

    I would sooner have an EPL style first past the post. At least all the teams would play each other twice.
     
    Maroon_Faithful, Mar 11, 2019
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