The Virtual Terrace • Re: Robert Elstone Interview
Clearwing wrote:
Hope 2020 does indeed herald a new dawn. Because he's said nowt to convince me that 2019 will. Change the rules all you like, with a shrinking audience fewer and fewer will know or care.
Yeah got to agree. Tbh I don't think he's had too much time to really bring about many changed for this next season to make any effect on getting many more watching. As it basically says he's spent most of the time dealing with other teams about the restructure. Apart from that as we know it's then just been about tinkering with the rules, trying to make the game a little more attractive and faster, with less timewasting. Which plenty of people have had issues with over the past few years. Some of the rules are decent but generally, I think most would be happy if there had been an announcement about sorting out the ruck area, then in this offseason, the RFL sent the refs out to work with the teams to show them how they want that part of the game to be cleaned up.
Hopefully from 2020, once he's got all the staff in place over in Manchester and can see what the rules have done this next season and maybe the move to 2 refs will see further improvements with how the game is viewed, plus he can get on with more important things like dealing with selling the game as whole better, getting lost fans back whilst also to continue to bring new audiences in from kids upwards. Then look towards the next contract agreements, hopefully with the game in a little better place than we are at present. He's got is work cut out but it's not an impossible task with the right vision and people behind him to help make it happen.
As a couple of other posters have mentioned I do like the way they're going to do the MOS award from now on, far better way to get the best man over the course of the full season.
Statistics: Posted by Shifty Cat — Tue Jan 08, 2019 7:58 pm