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| SOUTHS coach Jason Taylor was guilty all right. Guilty of being passionate about his job, his team and their fans. The raw exuberance of so desperately wanting his players to seize the moment and end four successive losses took control on Monday night. And the crowd loved it. Speed was not Taylor's closest friend as a player but he ran from the coach's box, through bureaucratic red tape, to the sideline in Olympic time. Now the NRL has sent Souths a breach notice warning for what was a delightful cameo that lifted a modest match. How upside down is our world when a coach gets a behavioural warning for wanting his side to win. Come on NRL. Release the handbrake. If coaches want to briefly rouse their players during breaks in play, let them. Used judiciously, it could be dramatic. It would not be over-used, because repetition would reduce its impact on players. At a time when the game struggles for genuine characters with personalities that engage the public, coaches, not players, have become wonderfully off beat. Well, two of them, Taylor and Brad Fittler, who refuses to let coaching subdue his effervescence. The game needs these people and genuine, not manufactured, liveliness. It doesn't need officials searching rule books for sub-sections, paragraphs, glossaries, notes on notes about paragraphs and definitions and diagrams to curtail theatre |
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