Pursuit of NRL adjudicating perfection damages rugby league | Matt Cleary
22 July 2018 02:00
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Endless TV angles may mean less ‘errors’, but they worsen the game by slowing it downUnlike Australian rules football which is an aerial, 360-degree affair with more in common with Quidditch, rugby league is a linear game. It has a rectangular field, “H”-shaped posts, and running lines as direct as those of Nullarbor road trains. The game’s ball-play and greater action can be confined neatly into a square box: the box called television.Television delivers league its riches. Nearly every home has a television. Every year millions of those homes watch rugby league. State of Origin games 1, 2 and 3, and the NRL grand final are, in some states, in each year’s top-five most-watched programs. Not just sport programs – all of them. Television is good for rugby league. Related: Ricky Stuart continues NRL war of words over officiating 'bias' Related: Roosters thump Manly as Storm on track for NRL minor premiership Continue readingread full article
