"I'm not a believer. I hate it," Gould said on The Gus and Webby Show on Tuesday.

"I'm just worried about where this is going to go. It won't happen in my life time but it will happen. The way they're going on the road we're on, in 20 or 30 years time, rugby league will be as slow as an NFL game. We will stop the play after every tackle and review what's happened. That's what referees will end up doing. If they get their way they will review every incident on the field. Cut them back, one referee, let's get on with the game and take the good with the bad.

"I know I'm old fashioned and I know I'm a dinosaur in this regard but it's the rub of the green. You take the good and the bad of the referee and get on with it because our game is about constant action. I'm getting annoyed at the amount of time our game is being slowed down, about players staying down, about players stalling time waiting for reviews. The whole system is irritating to me."

Meanwhile, Gould has also backed Daley to stick with the NSW team he selected in the series opener last week, adamant the less changes the better the Blues would be for game two at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on June 17.

"I think any changes now you lose the benefit of what you prepared for game one," Gould said. "I've always said the less changes during Origin the better. If you have no reason to change, no injuries, don't change it. You went within a point of winning and should have won. If you played better in the second half ... fix that part of it. Don't worry about trying to fix it in the selection room. Go with what he had. Rip into them again."