There’s such an obvious, easy fix: play it the way it’s supposed to be played, with human heads!

Or even, just to shut up squeamish, overly-protective modern parents, dead goats

The man formerly known as Prince and his main squeeze have labored long, and produced what critics are calling a steaming pike of barnyard product:

Meghan and Harry's Netflix series Polo is DESTROYED by critics

The reviews are in for Prince Harry and Meghan's latest Netflix endeavour Polo, the latest installment of their £80million deal with the streaming service.

But despite the likely high hopes that this would join the ranks of great sport documentaries such as Disney +'s Welcome to Wrexham and 2020's The Last Dance, the series has been panned by critics.

Receiving two stars or less out of five across the board, the five-part show has been labelled 'a tedious inside-look at posh polo' and a 'mostly boring look at a sport that very few people outside of elite circles have any particular interest in'.

…. The Telegraph's Ed Power noted in his two-star review of Polo, the 'bafflingly little' appearance of the Prince in his own series.

'Netflix and Archewell team up for a tedious inside-look at posh polo – and for once, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex don’t hog the limelight,' claimed the critic.

He concluded: 'There’s lots of blood, sweat, and tears in the series – but not enough of the Sussexes to make this anything other than a dull indulgence about a rich person’s pursuit.'

… Critic Joel Keller insisted: 'The first episode was tough to connect with, because it presents a world that not only isn’t very relatable to most people, but is boring to boot.'

And so on; there’s no pleasing some critics. I myself enjoy watching polo games: horses charging at full gallop down a 300-yard field, mallets flashing, collisions, dead, maimed players and geldings (well, that’s redundant); it’s exciting, to me. However, in this modern world of video games, perhaps polo needs a refresher, and for that, our royal couple should have returned to the past, all the way back to that fun-loving model that later English royalty would follow with such success and passionate glee, Uncle Genghis:

The modern game of polo, favorite pastime of English aristocrats and snobbish upper-class wannabes, is usually played with a small ball about the size of a billiard ball, and almost never with a human head or a dead goat. But that's how the sport of king's began thousands of years ago under a different name - "bughazi" (also spelled buzkashi [wiki] - Ed).

In fact, bughazi wasn't so much a leisure activity as military training for Persian cavalry, and it was possibly adopted from tribesmen in what is now modern-day Pakistan or Afghanistan.

Aside from the dead goat factor, there were also other differences in play. Instead of four players on a side, for instance, the ancient version involved armies of men - literally - with hundreds or even thousands of players on each side. In fact, it's believed that the first tournament was won by Turkish tribesmen playing against the Persians in 600 BCE.

And although the game was often played with animal heads, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan made a popular change, instituting the practice of decapitating military opponents and making a game of their noggins, still in their helmets.

Now that would set heads turning.