Opinion Rule Changes you would like to see

[dogluva]

lots off great ideas here, but one thing i would also float out there is making the scrum a scrum... fed down the middle... make the packs actually drive, make the hookers try and win against the feed...

But, but, that would mean that the forwards have to pack in..something novel in this day and age......

 

[dogluva]

Cant beleive Im saying this but maybe all tries should be reviewed by the bunker. Refs are too inconsistent.

They already do don't they?? Sorry, silly me, you didn't say all Canterbury tries....

 

[mr j]

For all penalties in the red zone, those tackles remaining in that set get carried over to the new set. Will eliminate those professional penalties given away be team defending the try line.

 

[liljohny]

The strip rule. You should only be able to do it defending in your own half not defending in the oppositions half. That'll clean it up a bit more. Teams would be doing it at their own risk in their own half. 7 tackle rule as well. That killed the game.

Elliot loves this rule

 

[oldpuppy]

I would like to see a return of the scrum when an attacking player is held up in goal from tackles 1 to 4.
Too many times a player will wrestle with defenders with zero chance of scoring. If you're held up over the line then defenders should be rewarded with the feed and not penalised as is now where the attacking team is set a new mark to play the ball.
The attacking team seems to be given the advantage as it gets more peripheral and another chance to try and execute a more potent set play.

 

[Heckler]

Elliot loves this rule

 

[top-dog]

This stupid rule a team should be allowed contest the ball when a team is about to or trying to score a try , this if u touch him u get a penalty try is bullshit .

 

[SPEARTAKVIDREFS]

lots off great ideas here, but one thing i would also float out there is making the scrum a scrum... fed down the middle... make the packs actually drive, make the hookers try and win against the feed...

Shits me to tears. Greatest WTF rule change ever. Lets take something that was once sometimes exciting, especially in the dying minutes of a close game when a scrum could be won against the feed and turn it into a siesta.

 

[ash160]

1. 7 tackle set...hate it.
2. One referee only, much better flow of the game and feel for penalties.
3. Bring back corner post...to many try’s from wingers way outside field of play.
4. Video ref can only watch and rule on try’s at half speed....not frame by frame slow mo

 

[steeliz]

1. Ban the Storm
2. Ban Souths
3. Ban Hasler

 

[James zac]

Call me old fashioned but I hate golden point draw is a draw and wingers touching the corner post in scoring out is out why have a stupid cornerpost

 

[86Gtown]

I played in more than one game where it was blowing a gale and I'd pass the ball backwards 10 metres and it would then float forward 12 metres, hardly a forward pass. Plus when a player is running and they pass it backwards it will move forwards with their momentum. In both cases the bunker can still adjudicate on the direction of the pass, and should be allowed to do so. Simplistically drawing a line on the field and calling a pass forward based on where it was passed compared to where it was caught isn't always a true representation.

Go Dogs

Sounds a bit like wanted movie turning bullets to me if you are passing backwards you are forcing the ball to go backwards there is no force pulling it with you. Never seen a ball blow 12m in the opposite direction to wich it was passed but i imagine if cyclone cat 5 hit the stadium they would and every pass would be foward

 

[turveys asthma puffer]

Sounds a bit like wanted movie turning bullets to me if you are passing backwards you are forcing the ball to go backwards there is no force pulling it with you. Never seen a ball blow 12m in the opposite direction to wich it was passed but i imagine if cyclone cat 5 hit the stadium they would and every pass would be foward

passing a ball 10metres back and having it float 12metres forward sounds too far fetched even for a movie but i’ll have to look it up.

 

[kaluah8123]

Bring back the shoulder charge. If contact is made with the head put them in the bin.

The team in possession of the ball cannot have team mates get involved in the ruck I.E stop them from going into touch or being forced back in goal.
Bunker to rule on obvious forward passes even in general play.
7 tackle sets after penalties.
Captains challenge.
Coaches can talk about referees after a game. They are the only people involved in the outcome of a game that are not accountable.

 

[BDPScarface]

This:

Differential Penalties rule

Should be extended to play the ball infringements. For the integrity of the game. Play the ball penalties are often controversial, and referees have given them with the subsequent penalty goal deciding the game.

It often looks like a referee deciding the game, ie. match fixing. I don't understand how something so obvious has not been addressed. There is an arrogance about the NRL administration that refuses to tidy up potential match fixing loop holes because it won't entertain the notion that referees might ever lack integrity.

Well, a day later from me posting that, now this:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12225332

NRL legends raging after controversial Warriors loss to Melbourne Storm
26 Apr, 2019 5:46am
The Melbourne Storm have stayed with the Sydney Roosters on the top of the ladder, overcoming an injury ravaged New Zealand Warriors 13-12.

The Warriors led most of the game in the close clash with a 12-10 lead for much of the second half.

But post-game, social media blew up with a conspiracy theory which gave the Storm the win.

With just under five minutes left, Storm prop Jesse Bromwich looked for a quick play-the-ball and seemed to drop the ball, only for the home side to get a penalty 20m out in front of the goals.

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After the scores were level, Brodie Croft then kicked a stunning field goal from 40m out, bouncing it in off the post.

But fans were less than impressed with the call in the play-the-ball, with some calling a conspiracy that Bromwich was awarded a penalty to help the Storm get out of jail.

Channel 9 commentator Paul Vautin helped fuel the conspiracy claims, calling it a "dicey" call.

"I really feel for the Warriors, they should have won it but it's an 80 minute game," he said.

James Bracey asked "was it a penalty?"

"It was very dicey," Vautin replied. "There are about 10 of those a game."

Johnathan Thurston also let rip on the call.

"No way," he started. "We've seen those go all year and the last couple of years. The referees are allowing that in the game, the boys holding on and slowing the play the ball down. He's got to play it correctly."


Cameron Munster of the Storm celebrates a try during the round 7 NRL match between the Melbourne Storm and the New Zealand Warriors. Photo / Getty Images.



Former Storm star Billy Slater backed Melbourne, arguing it was hard to come down on the referees for a 50-50 call.

But social media was confident the fix was in.

I've got a disclaimer to make. I barely watch NRL matches any more. I just can't stomach how bad the play balls and their policing are. Maybe I only first noticed it with him, but it had crept in before it, but for me it all started with Michael Hancock for the Broncos. He would kick and fight to break the tackle and play the ball, and I don't even blame him or current players for that. But what I detected back then is that he was universally lauded for it, and a culture of "yes, let's support an attacking players right to play the ball quicker. give them the benefit of the doubt. it quickens the game, therefore it is good", began.

Over the years, it has gone too far... players are walking way off the mark, and despite the promise a couple of seasons ago by the NRL that they would police proper play the balls, they again have used this as a "unconscious" bias device where the lesser the status of the player offending, the more likely they are to be pulled up on it. I'd love to see a dossier of the Burgess brothers play the balls which have been or should have been pinged. There are many other serial offenders. But I can recall a few times in the past seasons where we got pulled up and the opposition didn't (was it one where Tolman was pushed whilst playing the ball, and got pinged).

The play the ball penalties have decided a lot of games. They are way too subjective to do this. And the referees are definitely getting a huge percentage of these wrong, or inconsistent even within matches.

 

[Raysie]

Get rid of the escort rule altogether and penalise any blocking that occurs.

Or go the other way and just allow any sort of blocking.

You can't have this in between rule.

 

[kaluah8123]

Get rid of the escort rule altogether and penalise any blocking that occurs.

Or go the other way and just allow any sort of blocking.

You can't have this in between rule.

Take away the grey

 

[KLil]

Refs are not allowed to use a whistle.

 

[KLil]

7 tackle sets are rubbish. If a team decides to kick it dead to nullify an opposition fullback then good on them.

I like the rule, just think it should not be a 7 tackle set if its an attacking kick or a field goal attempt.

I think kickin it dead from 50 out to nullify any sort of attack is just shit for the game, its a like running it and holding it in a corner in soccer all game after u go 1-0 up after 5mins.