Policy madness does not seem to be restricted to Government.
It's now infecting Rugby League.
Dennis Fitzgerald, the Parramatta CEO is himself under siege.
But he's 1,000 per cent correct when he argues that John Ribot should not be appointed to the Board of the Australian Rugby League.
It's unbelievable that he's going to be voted to the QRL Board this Friday, and the QRL can then appoint four members to the ARL Board on December 9.
If Ribot is to make the ARL Board, then the game has given up on itself.
It was Ribot's fanciful Super League rubbish that nearly sent the ARL broke 13 years ago, even though it seems like yesterday.
And the Super League war, in which Ribot told the sporting world that everyone on the planet would be playing Rugby League by the time he was finished, and there'd be dancing girls and platoons of pre-match entertainment to herald in a new era of the game.
So much for the new era. The game nearly imploded.
And if it hadn't been for a handful of loyalists, loyal to the traditions of the game and unprepared to accept the bells and whistles stupidity of Ribot at the time, then the game of Rugby League would have gone under.
To say nothing of the damage done to young players who had cheques waved at them at prices of their own asking.
Many of these players were encouraged to believe that money did grow on trees, and they spent themselves into trouble.
All because John Ribot had a licence to print money from the then Murdoch leadership.
And now suggestions that this bloke Ribot should be on the governing body of the game.
Dennis Fitzgerald is right when he says "There is still a deep hatred for him from the fans and the clubs".
However, the New South Wales Rugby League seems to be equivocal, arguing that Queensland has the right to nominate four people who will automatically go through and "we can't change that".
Well, maybe not.
But what Fitzgerald is saying is at least the New South Wales Rugby League should mobilise its resources, to make it clear to Queensland that such a move would be sending a message to the game that the greed and the destructive behaviour of the war between 1995 and 1997 do, at the end, have their own rewards.
What next? Ribot Chairman of the Board?
Everything that Ribot promised for the game all those years ago has come to nothing.
But the price that the game paid to gain nothing was hundreds of millions of dollars.
A divided Rugby League community, players who believed that money was cheap, and a toll on the game which it was almost unable to pay.
If Ribot had one scintilla of loyalty to the game that served him well, then he should withdraw his nomination.
It's as simple as that.
Rugby League should not be putting on the payroll people who've done such unconscionable damage to the game.
