Who's Running The NRL?

Freddy Fittler Gets On The Red Phone To Gallop!

Well we have a brand new Commission to run the NRL now but nothing seems to have changed. NSW and the NSW oriented Channel Nine commentary team are still in charge. 

NSW loses the first State of Origin match and Freddy is straight on the phone to Gallop, with a couple of disgruntled refs in tow to demand the head refs sacking.... (Is that you with your hand up the back of Freddy's shirt Gus?).

Bill Harrigan best ref.

Bill Harrigan was arguably the best ref the game has seen with daylight second. He made the blokes running around today in the NRL look like rank amateurs, even though there are almost twice as many of them officiating at each match.

I hear that their main gripes are that he didn't watch the refs officiate at the recent Australia V New Zealand test or at the City V Country Match. Most decisions on their performance would be made after studying the tapes anyway wouldn't they? I think the whinge is more likely to be "Why didn't I get a gig at the first state of origin?"

Paul Kent from the Telegraph, in his biased article on the 31st May (Not a renowned Referee), suggests that Russell Smith or Tony Archer might replace him. Pleaseee! lets run through their litany of mistakes over the years, both on the field and in the box.

And enough of this nonsense about "great refs don't always make great coaches". How about "your only as good as the cattle you've got".

We all know that at the heart of the matter is the Inglis try decision. Please, lets be honest, Farah deliberately kicked at the ball and in your wildest imagination you cannot say the Inglis played at it when it hit his forearm. So it was a try. And as I mentioned in a previous article, examine Uate's first try and you can find a knock on by him if you look hard enough.

I guess the only way to please the NSW sooks would be to put Gus and Freddy in the third refs box next game. Or perhaps they could let the broadcast go to the third ref like the old days. That way he could hear all of the biased commentary. 

Here's the thing. If you keep changing the team (or "officials") every time you lose, you might keep on losing. You'd think the NSW boy's would have caught on to that by now.

Leave Hollywood alone, he'd be a tremendous loss to the game. I'm not sure that his persecutors would be.