The current nrl admin are busily on the bones of the arl and by consequence the NSWRL
They keep all their refs in Sydney etc
I might sound like a crackpot but I firmly believe there has always been an agenda from league central against the Gold Coast but they need the Gold Coast to keep up junior pathways and as a bulwark against afl
Think about the dumb decisions they made when they took the club over for that 3 year period. Sacking Henry instead of Hayne and ruining our gritty blue collar culture which we have only just started to get back etc and now the same people are in the game ops departments and we get dudded with calls the big clubs wouldn’t 4 weeks in a row
Like we can shoot ourselves in the foot but league central make sure to refill the chamber so we can keep doing it