The thing that annoys me about RL are these so called 'experts' of our game that claim to know everything when clearly they do not.

People that think they know everything are annoying to those of us who DO

One of the best posts ive ever read!

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Totally agree with every word and totally sums up that we are actually moving away from being a sport.

I happen to think the playoff system is shockingly awful and does not reward the better teams over the season leaving them at risk to being knocked out in a one off game by a £ refereeing decision costing them an entire season!

But ive said that on many threads!

Australia.

Don't blame you there.

It must be terrible not to have beaten Australia in a major RL competition since Jesus was in Kindergarten

I think if you change the option "Financial Running of RFL" to something like "Competence of Running the Game by the RFL" you might have got more votes.

You're probably right there! If i'd put Eddie and Stevo in I think a few would have gone that way too.

what he said

You could have just shortened it down by just saying "Dally Messenger". Would have saved yours and everybody elses time...

Nah, he talks a lot of sense.

He wont be on here much longer.

Hopefully he is going to pursue a new career in the movies as my stunt double in the new 'Gareth Thomas...The Movie' flick starring Barry McKenzie as Gareth Thomas








Well he wont be able to sit down long enough to press 'Ctrl +V' anyway.......

Yeah Barry he would have learned that from playing yawnion.

As for the future,no thanks.

Agreed. Where is that option?

Feeding at the Scrum
Forward passes not being picked up by touch judges
Aussie Accents
Eddie & Stevio replace with Bill Arthur
To much emphasis on Professional RL for development in new areas. Amateur RL should be given more status for RL development.

Barry, you couldn't play Gareth Thomas you'd make him look better than he is in real life!

That comes tommorrow night

I tried to click on the option for "Moaning Fans" but it didn't appear to be there.

My major irritation isn't listed either




(in case you're wondering, it's wilful stupidity - same as in the rest of life)

You know what? That bloody World Cup. STICK TO A F*CKING FORMAT :@

That's a joke , right

From the list I would say Players switching nationalities, lack of Media coverage, sometimes refereeing standards, rules of the game in terms of rule differences between SL and NRL and then having different interpretations for Internationals. Also the over-emphasis on 'expansion' as the best way of improving the sport.

Clubs' nonsensical obsession with very mediocre overseas players at the expense of decent junior development.

All clubs bending the rules on overseas players to the point that the supposed reduction in overseas players across SL will take years longer than it should. All for the sake of maybe one win a year.

Fans moaning every year about how finishing top of the league at the end of the season somehow makes them the champions despite this obviously not being the case. Wigan this year. Sts last year.

Same said fans bemoaning playoffs as not being 'traditional' despite the relatively short time in the history of the game when top of the league equalled being champions.

People moaning about the franchise system despite it being the only way for a number of clubs to actually look beyond the end of the current season and providing some degree of financial certainty for clubs both within and without SL.

Australian and British RL fans who couldn't give a t*ss about the game outside the narrow confines of their own club.

Seconded.....

Nuff said

None of those at all

my gripe is that we just dont get on with enjoying the game... it's great! lets enjoy it!

game....what game?

Another irritation is SL and NRL operating different rules on minor things like -

SL stopping the clock when teams form a scrum and keeping it stopped when they break away, when the NRL restart the clock the second a player breaks out.

Having two referee's in the NRL and only one in SL.

Surely things like this should be simply made as a "World Set of Rules"....as a sport it's plain embarrasing!