NRL jump the shark (blame Brookie)

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Brissie Kid

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No folks it isn't April Fools Day, it is the NRL world according to Toddy.

WARNING: grip hold of something solid before reading....

NRL head of football Todd Greenberg says Sunday's timekeeping bungle at Brookvale Oval shows why big games need to be moved away from suburban grounds.

The NRL has made no secret of their desire for more matches in Sydney to be played at ANZ Stadium and Allianz Stadium.

Sunday's incident where the timekeeper failed to hear or see the match referee Matt Ceccin call "time off" with 50 seconds remaining after Manly scored a late try to beat Penrith infuriated the Panthers.

"We have made our intentions pretty clear that we have great difficulty at suburban venues and that was highlighted again on the weekend," Greenberg said.

"The timekeeper can't physically see part of the ground, through the sidelines, and then with people standing up.

"It's exactly why we are looking to move to bigger stadia for the bigger games.

"It's a great challenge at those venues and we experience that in real time. We are playing at grounds that don't have modern facilities."

Despite the controversial finish the match was arguably the best of the season between two high-flying sides in front of a packed crowd - something that's been the exception rather than the norm in the NRL this year.

Greenberg conceded it was important for the game to keep in touch with its roots but at the same time ensure such embarrassing problems do not keep arising.

"People say it is great to have that suburban aura, Sunday afternoon at Brookvale was awesome," he said.

"But it presents a challenge to the modern day game for match officials and it's a fine balance."

There have been at least three timekeeping issues this season, but the most high-profile was during last year's qualifying semi-final between Cronulla and North Queensland at Allianz Stadium.

In that game the match clock differed from the time shown on the stadium scoreboard and the official broadcast of the match.

It left players, supporters and officials in a state of confusion as Cronulla won the game.

But Greenberg said measures have been put in place to prevent a repeat performance.

"We will be playing finals in major stadia so that certainly helps," he said.

"We've already announced a review into the tech opportunities for us to align all our time clocks with broadcasters and the game itself and the video screens.

"That's something that will happen (at all venues) but that is at a significant cost.

"But we're very confident, we are into the finals and we are ready to go."

Penrith five-eighth Jamie Soward on Tuesday came up with a novel suggestion to help timekeepers by taking a leaf out of golf's book.

"I think they (the NRL) are already talking about fixing it up, they are going to get those little people at the golf with the 'shoosh' signs," Soward said.

"That should help us next time when we're in a tight game like that.

"The refs will then be able to hear and 18,000 fans would have to be quiet.

"They can make a call and say 'quiet please' and that way we won't lose 50 seconds off the clock."

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/suburban-ground-issues-concern-nrl-20140902-3erle.html
 
NO Greenburg you are WRONG-STOP hijacking the time issue last Sunday

Todd, please stop being a politician and please stop trying to hijack the time keeping issue at Brookie last Sunday at the Panthers game to add to your agenda of killing Brookie and all suburban grounds to deliver your utopia of all games at nice big stadia like crap ANZ and semi crap Allianz. your motives are SO obvious. footy fans love Brookie, Leichardt Oval. so cater for it. employ some tools who can press the on/off button on a stopwatch.
stop thinking like a bean counter and listen to the fans and look at the reality 18,500 who turned up on a Sunday afternoon. oh, lets not start on about Sunday afternoon games, that would be considering the fans way too much.
 
They're going on about it like it decided the outcome of the game. Another (what was it 12 second or something?) Wouldnt have helped the panthers at all. Snake smashed it over the sideline then the panthers would have had to pack a scrum pretty fast. Then soward would have had to snap a 45m field goal from set defence off a scrum and thats never going to happen. What a joke
 
'There have been at least three timekeeping issues this season, but the most high-profile was during last year's qualifying semi-final between Cronulla and North Queensland at Allianz Stadium.' Plus the Scumos rort against the Drags was at AAMI :mad:

Greenturd and his cronies are a cancer on the game we love :exclamation:
 
RE: NO Greenburg you are WRONG-STOP hijacking the time issue last Sunday

He is a knob jockey of the highest order
 
It does take guts to push an agenda and pedal outright and clear BS with it, that's actually pretty ballsy
 
RE: NO Greenburg you are WRONG-STOP hijacking the time issue last Sunday

Ask other teams where they would rather win an away game. In a big empty stadia or in front of 20,000 passionate Manly fans at Brookie?
Then you could even ask the fans what they prefer.
 
RE: NO Greenburg you are WRONG-STOP hijacking the time issue last Sunday

It would be good to get some business people involved that actually like Rugby league
 
I thought Gallop was bad, but Greenburg is a complete and utter moron. There is a clear agenda here by him to undermine suburban grounds, I don't know what is driving it though. TV demands ?? Big stadia kickbacks ??
 
These guys running the NRL are a joke. How could they come up with this idea as a solution to the time keeping issue. This is just a cop-out.

They should do a thorough review and actually fix the issue. My suggestion would be to mike up the ref (which he already is) and time keeper and then it would be very easy for the ref to tell the time keeper when to start or stop the clock.
 
You are a dead set embarrassment Greenturd.

The games history has been built on so called suburban grounds. Piss off back to Belmore, you are a blight on the game!!

The Riff wasted time when they had the lead, nuff said!
 
Let's see Monghead put his case on all these issues to the fans directly. Tired of him hiding behind reactive media announcements.

I love rugby league but there's so much pollution these days. Let's get rid of technology - back to sunday games and packed grounds because sunday shopping hadn't happened yet, and the only updating of scores was to hear over the ground announcer!
 
RE: NO Greenburg you are WRONG-STOP hijacking the time issue last Sunday

You are so out of touch Greenturd, just crawl back under your rock.
 
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