Kevinward777
First Grader
There is an article on the NRL site that reports on the fact that Brisbane are playing there first 5 day turnaround game in over a year. It even has quotes by some of their players saying that they usually play Friday night games and how this is a disruption to the preparation they are used to. Why the NRL would want to highlight this blatant advantage (one of many) that is afforded to this club is beyond me. There is no elite sporting competition anywhere in the world where such flagrant advantages are handed to one team. When you take into consideration the amount of five day turnarounds Manly had to endure last year, as well as the massive advantages of playing on free to air television each week it really is just cheating. Then there is the one city team in a rugby league heartland, the ridiculously unbalanced advantages relating to third party sponsorship, and the NRL then wonder why clubs without these obvious leg ups choose to pay people in brown paper bags. I would be embarrassed as a player to have so many leg ups over other teams. And in light of all this the Broncos are really nothing special, under achievers big time. Imagine the Sea Eagles getting the blue print that Brisbane receive, we would win a bunch of premierships every decade.
