Quote: NickyKiss "I don’t like how they’ve acted, in fact I think it’s disgraceful but fair play to them, they have the money to do it properly and that’s because they got the game booming over there and started to rake it in. We on the other hand are a shambles. It’s little wonder they were able to hide behind safety concerns, when our clubs just seem to be so unprofessional and then you have a couple twisting the rules to their advantage. The games at the lowest point I can recall over here and I just hope we can bounce back but without some whopping changes, I’m not sure how it can happen.'"
Undoubtedly money plays a huge role at all levels. They can pay for these great facilities, but, even more importantly, they can pay for real leaders too. That's what the game is missing over here. I don't know if it's because the structure is different here, or something else but we just don't have strong leadership imo. We don't have a CEO who says this is what we're doing and drags the club's with him. That's what the NRL has at the min. Plenty don't like it, but he gets stuff done.
It's one of the reasons I was excited by the Hearn family rumours a few years back. If he could wrestle control from the club's (I'm even including us in that btw) then I'm sure he'd have drove real change.