It let little fast men find their niche in the game. Now, everyone has to be an Olympic athlete, with the build of a weight lifter.Yep remember that! I got no prob with 4 ..and 1 18th man for head knocks.. But once you are replaced..that’s it.. Gee i wonder how grand final history before interchange would’ve changed… Say the 89 grand final with Balmain versus Canberra…Roach and Sironen could have came back on.. would players like Mason, and the other big man in the game since, have been as successful.. Maybe other players would’ve been more successful than what they were…Very interesting…
100% the number of times I have seen 0 or 1st tackle square ups for 6 agains. There are lots of things I'm seeing in games now that doesn't sit well.OPens the door to corruption.
Take the Roosters game last week, we didn't get another set of 6 in the Roosters half again after we scored and they were camped on ours. Not in the spirit of the game.
Penalties fair or not actually put spotlight on the refs when they made huge blunders and it became obvious when people were trying to the rig the game. Now if you want a certain team to win as long as their squad and talent are about equal just bribe the ref to blow non stop 6 agains against the other team and they will most likely lose. It's also easier to even the stat sheet. Blow 6 against for the team that you don't want to win on the 0 tackle