How the Super League still affects the 30 -year match
Divided competitions
Super League teams
Brisbane, Cronulla, Canberra, Canterbury, Penrith, Hunter, Auckland, Western Reds, Adelaide, North Queensland
ARL team
Newcastle, Manly, Parramatta, North Sydney, Sydney City (Eastern suburbs), Illawarra, Gold Coast, Balmain, Western suburbs, St George, South Sydney, South Queensland
Teams that played in the seasons of 1997.
Yet the game is now much more professional and sophisticated than it was in 1995, made by the financial results of the Super League war. The players are full time and get a fair commercial return from the TV contracts of the code and sponsorships. Each club has a support staff that is aimed at their medical, dietary and wellness needs, as well as a highly resources football department.
When the ARL and the Super League consolidated at the end of the war to produce common rules, the ARL introduced the 40:20 rule that breaks the game “You Ave It for Six Tackle, we have for six contrasts” Nexus. The Super League brought the replay video, helping officials in the decision -making process on the field. (The bunker, who complicates and delays decisions came later).
Andrew Ettingshausen, Lachlan Murdoch and Ken Cowley during a Super League launch.Credit: Fairfax Media
It can be argued that this progress has been inevitable, but the Super League has also brought innovations and ideas – a mix of fertiles and fools – which have been tested and refined.
The challenge of the 1997 World Club among the ten English clubs of News Ltd Ltd, with its scores and enormous expenses, has been abandoned but persists as a final of a match between the winners of the NRL and the English competitions.
The Super League also agitated for a new judicial system in which the players could avoid an audition declaring themselves guilty and a system of points classified creates consistency. Their 1997 night final in Brisbane led the NRL to pass its final decision maker in the evening with its highest TV charts. The Super League also discussed for a representative window of October.
The gladiators … Packer V Murdoch.Credit: John Shakespeare
On the negative side, the Super League war killed the traditional international competition with the northern hemisphere. News Ltd has financed the English competition that has passed to a summer season, which means that national competitions take place in the two main game nations.
In October/November this year, the Kangaros will play a series of three tests against Great Britain in London, Liverpool and Leeds for the first time in 22 years. The Kangaroos obviously will not meet English clubs, like Wigan and St Helens, or play in France.
However, the southern hemisphere has become stronger with the emergence of Samoa and Tonga, finalists and semifinalists in the cups of the world.
The CEO of the Super League John Ribot describes the ascent of Pasifika as “the greatest legacy of the Super League”, explaining, “when it seemed inevitable that there would be two competitions – Arl and Super League – I went to Ken Cowley (News Ltd Chair) and I said:” We will need more players “. Pasifika for the players and their families and we see it today with the Pasifika players who include half of the NOC.
Ribot explained that the news of News Ltd gave him appetizer to the heads of state in the Pacific, with the king of Tonga who gave him a painting and a high official of the Fiji government who presented an ancient war tool used to fix the neck of the prisoners before beheading them.
They hung on the wall of his apartment as a reminder of a conflict that in the end was useless because his main object was for a fee and package and Murdoch rights ended up dividing them.
The Fiji war instrument is also a reminder that sometimes during the bitter conflict in which friendships were destroyed and that the career ended and Ribot feared for his own head.
