Is it time for David Gallop to resign

[Matt Pritchard]

The NRL is in a complete mess which has come from the board's inaction of the past years on incidents which have come back to haunt them in 2009.
The Matthew Johns incident - poorly handled, and inconsistant.  You see guys like Brett Stewart and the Broncos trio being let of the hook over similar incidents by the NRL.  I just found out recently Brett Stewart was given a lap of honour for his first game back - a sickening gesture by the Eagles club snubbing their nose at the NRL to glorify a one-champion player now in the middle of sexual assault charges.  We were easy to rub out Todd Carney and Greg Bird de-registering these players but Brett Stewart especially are treated different to Matthew Johns, a player only guilty of being unfaithful to his wife and not charge with any assault.
Drinking/drug culture - well if the NRL have tried to impliment education about alcohol abuse and drug abuse, it hasn't worked one bit.  In the current climate the media are following the elite players and watching their every move.  Willie Mason caught out over the weekend, Todd Carney 'bashed' at a North Queensland pub a few weeks back. 
Western Sydney - the heartland of rugby league with three western sydney clubs.  The Tigers, are as good as middle of the road team.  The Eels have been stung by off-field drama and are struggling to be competitive.  Then the Panthers going well thanks to some luck and confidence - but the NRL hardly are helping these clubs to foster the game in the west.
Cronulla - The NRL and crisis talks with the Sharks, the unwillingness to try and 'save' this club of just over 40 years may leave rugby league hollow in the Shire in 2010.  The NRL's hidden agenda to have a team out of the Central Coast is working.  Maybe it would have been a better move for the Rabbitohs to move there.  Cronulla wanted to play six games at the Central Coast and were knocked back whilst the Rabbitohs were given the freedom to move games there.  I don't understand this!
Listening to the fans - well Saturday 5:30pm NRL does not work on crowd numbers and this indirectly has hit the Sharks club which are often stuck at this timeslot for home games.  A move to 4pm Saturday afternoon is no help either.  I don't mind the two Friday night games.  I think Saturday 3pm and two 7:30pm games (occasionally 5:30pm game in NZ) would work.  Sunday's we could have 2:00pm, 3:00pm and 4:00pm games removing Monday night football.
Referee's - two refs in my opinion hasn't worked especially with their lack of power to overrule video refs like in the Bulldog's-Dragons game.  The Panthers controversial penalty against Billy Slater in Melbourne was not only the wrong decision but cost potentially a club two points to make the semis.  In a little way you have to feel sorry for the Dogs, they rightly lost two points at CUA but wrongly lost two points at Kogarah.  The West Tigers supporter tackling the ref after last night's game shows frustration of the interpretation of the sin bin rule.  Both Benji Marshall and Petero Civoniceva role models for their respective clubs 'binned' over very minor incidents.

It's time for a clean out at NRL board level.  And at a time where they need a player to steer their game out of the mess, Sonny Bill Williams makes a return and wants a piece of the action.  Whilst Dogs and NRL supporters may not want the 'traitor' to play again the NRL may not have a choice to bolster their image.  This again could prove costly for David Gallop.

[Craig]

David Gallop should have resigned in 2002 when he said after the Bulldogs salary cap scandal that "any Premiership-winning club which committed salary cap breaches would have the trophy stripped from them". So what happened to the Roosters then, hmm?

You know, there is one very simple rule that the NRL could adopt that the FFA has. If a player is under investigation for a crime (especially a serious crime, in Seb Ryall's case it is having sex with a minor) that player should be automatically stood down until court proceedings are complete, irrespective of whether a player is guilty or not. There is no such rule in the NRL. Brett Stewart was allowed to continue playing for Manly despite the sexual assault charge against him before the NRL intervened. Why was he even allowed to continue playing in the first place before he went to court? It promotes more bad headlines, whereas in Seb Ryall's case, its incognito in comparison. He was stood down by the FFA immediately, no chance for anyone to make a cheap, sensationalist tabloid headline.

It just goes to show that David Gallop and the NRL are not serious about these kind of allegations. Nobody should wonder why these incidents continue to happen and that nobody seems to be learning.