Was speaking to a board member at the Rosters today and he mentioned that the incumbent NRL Commissioner has requested a business plan from all high level management personnel at the NRL HQ. The documents are to articulate existing model, existing practices within each job description, what are the plans moving forward, and more importantly; how will it improve the game, profitability to stakeholders and how it will bring fans back to the game, and not necessarily TV fans.
How novel is that! Bring back fans to the game - WOW!
I'm opening a bottle of something good!
My solution
1.expunge the bowels of the organisation i.e get rid Greenburg ! he has a been constipatory influence on the NRL's processes for far too long clogging up the system with his special brand of incompetence and hemorrhoidal dumb arse .
2.rebuild suburban stadiums
3.stop favoring 4 or 5 teams (see point 1)
4.special family packages as per a great previous post
5.one referee, ESL is so much more enjoyable and less frustrating to watch ,not like the WWF we have to endure now.
6.get rid of the bunker ,the finals series is the logical and closing argument to dismantle that joke
7.stop currying favor with elite players and spend a decent amount on the grass roots .AFL is IMO an inferior game ,but by targeting grass roots they are killing it .Look at the Scum they have been flogging that dead old horse for 20 years and they may get 12k to a game and no media coverage down there ,GWS been going barely 10 years and is killing it(another massive fail for the turd purloining the CEO's pay every month)
8.Re do the Cap and the TPA system.People are not stupid if it looks like a turd ,smells like a turd , chances are its a turd.Fans can see its not a fair and real competition and they will not cop it ,hence point 3 ,fans WILL not watch 5 teams go around a year ,because that's the way its being directed ATM.An example tonight (not confirmed) of the Roosters squeezing Cam Murray into the fold ,,,,puuleasse
8.Lastly and I'm not 100% on this but I think there is something wrong with the games rules/officiating when a decision can be made like the Jurbo one that so changes a game so critically on the basis of such a marginal 50/50 infringement,10 mins seems way to long for some of these types of infringements
Anyway just my thoughts
Go Manly