Starved of genuinely competitive football, AussieRulesBlog has been watching round one of the NRL's 2014 season.
Craig Bellamy is a genius and Cam Smith should be awarded the keys to the city of Melbourne.
The thing that had struck us is the number of video reviews. Apparently there have been rule changes for 2014 designed to speed up the game. Sadly for RL aficionados, whatever benefits may have accrued from the rule changes, the unwillingness of the referees to make a decision on tries means that the game is developing a stop-start nature that no-one can think is good.
There's a lesson here for Mark Evans, the AFL's football operations boss. The crowd and the television audience are fed up with interminable video reviews. We want the officials to make a decision. That's what they're paid to do.
Sunday, March 09, 2014
Video paradox
Craig Bellamy is a genius and Cam Smith should be awarded the keys to the city of Melbourne.
The thing that had struck us is the number of video reviews. Apparently there have been rule changes for 2014 designed to speed up the game. Sadly for RL aficionados, whatever benefits may have accrued from the rule changes, the unwillingness of the referees to make a decision on tries means that the game is developing a stop-start nature that no-one can think is good.
There's a lesson here for Mark Evans, the AFL's football operations boss. The crowd and the television audience are fed up with interminable video reviews. We want the officials to make a decision. That's what they're paid to do.
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