Making his point: Paul Gallen speaks to the referee during the round 20 NRL match between the Cronulla Sharks and the Newcastle Knights at Southern Cross Group Stadium. Credit:Brendon Thorne Menacing argument Michael Ennis is ready for the NRL's ruling – that Southern Cross Stadium is not an approved Sydney finals venue because its facilities are not up to scratch. "That's for week two and week three and week four," he told Set of Six, in reference to venue rules for the rest of the finals series. "The first semi's a home semi. If you play for the Raiders, you get a home semi. If you play for the Cowboys, you get a home semi. They hold roughly what this would hold. "You move a game against the Cowboys or the Broncos or the Raiders to Allianz Stadium, you get maybe 22, 23,000. You play it here, we're probably going to get 20,000. It's probably not a lot different. But what is different is what we've all worked hard here for – not just the the players but the staff and the fans that we've asked to buy memberships, that we've asked to buy tickets. I think they deserve it. We need to stand our ground in terms of our importance in the game."

Jumped: Michael Brown has resigned from his roles with the NRL and Rugby League World Cup. Michael Brown will be remembered as the career sports administrator who was forced to resign as World Cup boss after a threatening phone call to Penrith's Corey Payne. The danger is that why he made the call will be lost in the mists of time. So, for those of you who missed it, here's what Brown said over the weekend: "We didn't go to Penrith because they were asking us for in excess of $500,000 to play there. Allianz Stadium charged $100,000. It was a simple decision." Brown believes the situation was wilfully misrepresented by Payne – he actually used the expression "pack of [something quite possibly libellous]". We await Penrith's response to this. …with chances of a late Storm When sideline commentator Andy Raymond concluded his half-time interview with Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy on Saturday night by saying he thought they were holding up the second half, he wasn't joking. Bellamy was scheduled to do the interview but with players back on the field, still had not emerged from the dressing room. If anyone was hoping this would spare him the hassle of answering questions, they were in for a surprise. The floor manager simply left the players and match officials waiting out on the field until he emerged and – affably, it must be added – submitted to questioning. The post-match media conferences were also fashionably late – on the #stupidsaturday blog we posted our live account of the Storm presser at 10.05pm and Roosters at 10.18pm Scully scolds fake English