Quote: Father Ted "Taking the game to Sydney is a mistake.'"
Why?
Quote: Father Ted "They will be lucky to get the SFS half full.'"
True it will be full.
Quote: Father Ted "The Roosters will virtually be the same again, Wigan will be minus some very good players.
The other anolmaly are the refs. If an Aussie ref, Ashley Klein apart, runs the game Wigan will get battered on the penalty count (like 12-2) and it could be a cricket score. That's happened before in Internationals and could very well happen again.'"
Well if the players learn and play by the rules then they won't get penalised. It really is that simple!
Quote: Father Ted "IL and SW need to think long and hard about this.
The game could lose money by being held in Sydney, it could be also be an awful night for Wigan and British Rugby League.'"
Why, if Wigan win, and there is no reason they may not why is that bad for British Rugby League?
Quote: Father Ted "If Sonny Bill Williams is playing as well as the Roosters other stars then the DW will get over 20,000 in. It will make money.'"
Well it isn't so they won't. Unless there is one of Mo & Ron Balls games on the DW will be empty
Quote: Father Ted "We would have a SL ref who wouldn't spoil the game and get a great contest.
Only one venue makes any kind of sense to me and that's the DW.
(From someone who went to Brisbane in '94 too)'"
It's never the referees who spoil the game. It's the players who don't know the rules or try to ignore them or bend them. They get penalised when caught and get away with it when not caught. If the whistle is going 20 to the dozen who is at fault? The coaches?, the groundsman?