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I thought it was a recommendation from Wayne Pearce when he had that technical advisory role, he may still be in that position. I'm not sure on all I mentioned, just speculating off memory. He may have recommended other things too.It is the single worst thing that has happened in my 40 plus years watching the game.
The obsession with making the game faster and faster has ruined a lot of what the game has always been.
It was a captains call decision to bring in the rule in the first place. So whilst ever V'landys is in charge. He is blind to the negative impact this rule has on the game. Not to mention opening the referee’s integrity. With seemingly no accountability on six again calls.
I wasn't for or against 2 referees but they eventually got rid of that, so there's only hope for now that the NRL will wake up.
The best matches in sport are generally where the referees let the game play on, be less pedantic, so long as it doesn't get out of hand.
Six again besides it's other consequences like potential blowouts, it allows for subjective calls that pretty much remove accountability for the referee, that is, it potentially allows the referee to manipulate the game. I'm not saying football is rigged, but it opens a can of worms for corruption. Whether the NRL wants this or not, keep in mind its biggest sponsors, an obvious flaw shouldn't be this obvious to us spectators. We'd lose trust in the system, gambling money for example. It's that obvious of a potential flaw that if the NRL doesn't remove six agains it's nearly admitting to potentially being able to manipulate a match. It needs media pressure, I'm not in the capacity to do anything about it.