B0NES: The game got off to such a great start with great attendances, some cracking opening games and the Vegas exposure. Then in good old fashioned RL way, we kick the good start into touch with this debacle and throw in the Nigel Wood saga also.
The sport is always a bullet away from shooting it's self in the foot.
It's always 1 foot forward 2 steps back in this sport. IMG seem to have gone quiet so if I was a betting man we're bored of that idea and will have yet another rashly thought out structure soon!
While I still have doubts about IMG, to give them some benfit of the doubt they may be able to argue the strong crowds so far are due to better online marketing from the clubs, better facilities at some grounds (most notably Wakefield) have helped the rise. With Vegas it was Kris Radlinsiki taking the intitiative and emailing the NRL though.