Two perspectives...Yay or Nay? (Main Forum)

by desi , Australia, Thursday, May 24, 2012, 11:42 (367 days ago) @ Liz

James (and, in fact, everyone else), I feel that I need to make the rules of the ‘game’ very, very clear (especially this morning!).

Whatever the ‘game’, there is only one MAN in charge (no matter how much help he may get in terms of advice eg reviewing decisions, and although he may have different titles such as Umpire, Referee or even Pope, his decision is FINAL.

It matters not a jot whether anyone thinks that he got a decision wrong (eg a ‘player/bishop’ –to coin a phrase- ‘dropping the ball’), what he says goes.

Also, it must be remembered that no matter how high the opinion any one man in Sydney might hold about himself and his knowledge of the ‘rules’, what the man in charge says ‘goes’.
(This in fact applies not just to ‘one man in Sydney’ but the whole of NSW!).

‘Followers’ can discuss the rights and wrongs of any decision, in the press, on TV, on Internet Forums and elsewhere, write as many articles as they like but, believe me, at the end of the day, it will make absolutely no difference.

No decision will be changed!

It may surprise readers to know that there are even some ‘supporters’ who are so ‘scrupulous’ in terms of the ‘rules’ as they were laid down when the ‘game’ was first established, that any ‘change’ is considered ‘sacrilegious’ and are even prepared to throw others out of the ‘club’ if they don’t agree with their ‘rules’. (A small insignificant minority but one that has the ear of the games ‘hierarchy’ and have even been known to send (confidential) e-mails to the ‘game's’ HO about 'abuses' of these rules!).

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PS If anyone is in any doubt about the above then have a look in today’s newspapers!

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QLD 18.....NSW 10