The same people who don't like the biff probably

No, fighting is illegal and always has been in the game of RL. What we are not advocating is some hysterical Over reaction to two tough guys venting at each other in the heat of the moment. I would rather see two guys throw a couple of harmless punches at each other and get ten in the bin for it than the farcical scenes that are emerging in the NRL, and are common place in the AFL, where it is all in but pushing, shoving, grabbing shirts and generally carrying on like girls with handbags.

RL has a unique marketing angle in sport to proclaim itself the toughest game in the world. This over reaction by a union loving financier now running the game in Australia is turning people away from the game and losing our best marketable element.

Turning people away?

Stick to LU.

Suggest you go on LU and read the reaction of the vast majority of fans to the sin bin rule and the shoulder charge changes. You my friend are the one in the minority. If RL is too rough follow soccer, Union or AFL. Plenty of sports out there for you and your ilk.

You've spent to long on LU, they've turned you into a bogan. The posters on LU don't represent the majority of fans I sit at games with, nor are they the fans, sponsors and investors the NRL are targeting because they don't have much of that important ingredient. Money.

As I've said the NRL have banned the shoulder charge and gave harsher pentaltys to punching.

So I suggest it's you and your ilk who need to find another game to follow.

I'd suggest that rl14 players charged from one gamerl takes a "bit of biff" to a new level

Wow ,
Two grade E' s (Punching – Violent and Sustained Grade E)

Quote: Sheldon "You've spent to long on LU, they've turned you into a bogan. The posters on LU don't represent the majority of fans I sit at games with, nor are they the fans, sponsors and investors the NRL are targeting because they don't have much of that important ingredient. Money. As I've said the NRL have banned the shoulder charge and gave harsher pentaltys to punching. So I suggest it's you and your ilk who need to find another game to follow.'" Tis funny then that the NRL at the end of last year, whilst the shoulder charge and biff were around, signed a Billion $ media deal and increased its sponsorship portfolio significantly. Funny how everyone was falling overthemselves to be alligned to this game that was so rough and aggressive? Just because the NRL have made the decisions doesn;t make them good ones. The majority of fans, players and coaches don't support it, glad it pleased someone! Coaches: www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/arl-co ... 6520747167 Players: www.foxsports.com.au/league/nrl- ... 6520898445 Fans: RLW poll: Is the game better off without the shoulder charge ? Yes - 19% No - 81%

Quote: Sheldon "You've spent to long on LU, they've turned you into a bogan. The posters on LU don't represent the majority of fans I sit at games with, nor are they the fans, sponsors and investors the NRL are targeting because they don't have much of that important ingredient. Money. As I've said the NRL have banned the shoulder charge and gave harsher pentaltys to punching. So I suggest it's you and your ilk who need to find another game to follow.'" Tis funny then that the NRL at the end of last year, whilst the shoulder charge and biff were around, signed a Billion $ media deal and increased its sponsorship portfolio significantly. Funny how everyone was falling overthemselves to be alligned to this game that was so rough and aggressive? Just because the NRL have made the decisions doesn;t make them good ones. The majority of fans, players and coaches don't support it, glad it pleased someone! Coaches: www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/arl-co ... 6520747167 Players: www.foxsports.com.au/league/nrl- ... 6520898445 Fans: RLW poll: Is the game better off without the shoulder charge ? Yes - 19% No - 81%

All you've done is confirmed that 81% of people that took that poll are as stupid as you.

Was the question asked "Is it worse off?" or did the poll/reporter have an agenda?

Anyway what sport have you chosen to watch now the NRL doesn't fit your first for head trauma?

You are very blinkered and narrow minded if you think the majority are wrong and you are right.

Are you a member of the Health and Safety brigade?

Next you'll be advocating helmets and big shoulder pads for the players.

Who are the majority? Doctors? Scientists? Neurosurgeons? Psychologists?

I think they're right.

Like I said Sheldon, netball is out there for you, leave the tough games to real men.

I'm good, the NRL are clamping down on the "biff" and have banned the shoulder charge.

Which game are you turning too? You'll be ok, you don't have a local NRL side anyway.

The game needs foundations and those foundations are the Juniors and the Parents that decide to put their kids into a Sport at Junior level they are comfortable with.

In Australia, the AFL, Soccer and even Union Clubs all compete at junior levels with programs like Auskick against League.

Times have changed where people will not have their kids in a sport that allows thuggery or condones dangerous play.

When I played the game there was as much fighting as play (it was a low grade)
That will not sell in this day and age.

Without Parents wanting their kids in League, the game will wither on the Vine in a few years time.

No it won't