But he's much more than the big, strong hero that flies around in the Millenium Falcon with Han Solo. He's also one of the greatest legal minds of our time. Given the Chewbacca defense is named after him. You know, the one made famous by South Park.

The one where you wave a Chewbacca doll around and trick the jury into acquitting your client. "If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit!" It's a stroke of genius.

Now the good folk of Channel Nine, they work for a TV station. It's fair to assume they watch a lot of television. So they clearly know about the Chewbacca defence.

Especially when you read their statement about the NRL. You know the one. Where they have a crack at the NRL for wasting all the money Nine has paid them over the years.

There was no real reason for them to say this. Given all the talk about the NRL wasting all their money happened days ago. Way back when the NRL and the Rugby League Players Association were divvying up the cabbage.

As someone in our virtual office quipped: "They've had 20-30 years to complain about the NRL wasting their money."

To coin another crucial phrase from the Chewbacca defence: It doesn't make sense.

In these coronavirus-filled days, days seems like years. Locked away in our little homes. Dreaming of walking around the block just to get outside. Even if it's raining cats and dogs.

That's a long time, years. It gives you a lot of time to think about things. Look at things. See through things. Even through the Chewbacca defence.

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But it wasn't just the money wasting that had Nine (allegedly) riled. They'd also been left out of negotiations about when the NRL was going to return from their COVID-19-induced holiday.

Poor things. It's not nice to feel left out.

You'd assume they wanted to be part of those chats so they could help get the game back up and running again as quickly as possible.

Get all those eyeballs on their NRL coverage and get themselves some ratings. Step one: collect ratings. Step three: massive profits. The two golden rules of television.

Except for the fact they've already boasted about how they're going to save $130 million if the NRL doesn't get back under way.

So the NRL's broadcaster, who has thrown millions of dollars at the NRL just so it can show the games, now doesn't want to show them.

It doesn't make sense. Unless all your corona-induced contemplation has come up with the real reason behind their statement comes in. It's all about the money.

But not the money the NRL's wasted. Nine doesn't care about that. Why would they? They're not the NRL's parents.

It's their own money they're caring about. And giving less of it to the NRL. It seems they want to give the game less. Right when the game needs that money the most. Right when all those players and their families need it the most. Right when all the clubs' employees and their families need it the most.

Nine wants to use the coronavirus to weasel their way out of paying that money. That money they agreed to pay years ago.

Now sure, they're also going to be hit by the effects of COVID-19. Just like the rest of us. Less money from advertising. Less revenue.

But Nine will be fine. And their employees will all be fine. Why? Because They're so good at financial management themselves.

They must be. You're not going to have a crack at someone for being rubbish at something you're rubbish at now are you. That doesn't make sense.