Stretched-out scheduling robbing NRL fans of drama | Mike Hytner: NRL fans are missing out on end-of-season excitement due to the scheduling of the final round of matches The final day of the season. The past seven months of players blood, sweat and tears, laid on the line week after week, reaching a thrilling climax. Emotionally frayed and loyal supporters crammed into a stadium, watching the final denouement play out before their eyes. The excitement of the unknown, building to a crescendo as full-time whistles blow across the country. Furious checking of radios or mobile devices for the results that matter to your team, searching for the information that could prove to be the difference between silverware, titles, pride and glory, and disappointment, hurt, ignominy and embarrassment. Thats how it should be, the final day of the season. Yet, there will be none of those fraught emotions in Australia this weekend, at least not to such an extent, as the NRLs home-and-away season drags its feet along towards a rather protracted close. The final round of fixtures, a round that will decide the identity of the minor premiers and that of the eight teams who will fill the finals berths in the closest regular season for years, if not ever, will by the final reckoning have run (or should that be ambled) over four days. During that period from Thursday to Sunday, amid a whole host of permutations, a great deal of the excitement of a potentially climactic finale will have been lost, diffused over three sleeps, softened by the passing of almost half a week. Continue reading... #Guardian
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:20:06 +0000
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