Opinion Rules you’d change

[Bad Billy]

You’ve just been elevated to NRL supreme leader.
what do you change?

• Bunker for tryscoring decisions only
• No 7 tackle set for kicks inside the attacking 30
• Fuck off the “out of the hands backwards” bullshit. Forward is forward
• Not held until your on the ground
• “Golden double” - 2 points wins GP. Kick a FG? Games still on, gotta kick another
• If you stay down and the ref stops play, you have to go off
• No sin bins. Send offs for extreme foul play but otherwise the integrity of the contest is paramount
• Fuck off the captains challenge
• 40/20, 30/30, 20/40

Finally…

• Bulldogs start every year on 4 points

 

[Dogmonster]

I hate 6 again rule and 7 tackle set.
Would like to see only 2 in a tackle unless 20m out in attack from try line.
No stripping, only allowed when in act of scoring try.
Draft system to spread talent evenly.

 

[John Matrix]

The overruling of missed forward passes/incorrect calls of them.

 

[BondiBulldog]

I have been saying for years and posted on this forum a while back to reward a one on one legs tackle.

Against popular opinion I’d also bring back the twelve man interchange.
This was being lobbied hard by a lot of people on channel 9 etc as well as the six again to the speed the game up- the result is the debacle we see today.

 

[BondiBulldog]

Fuck the six again off all together.

 

[Bad Billy]

reward a one on one legs tackle.

Couldn’t agree more.
if you make a 1 on 1 tackle below the waist, it should be called “dominant” and you should be able to hang on to them and if they try to get up and drop the ball, knock-on.

 

[Cappuccino]

You can now punch other players, and the ref

 

[Dognacious]

Not held till u are on the ground could bore fans to death when a big player is held up and not grounded. What do they do, hug until the next break? Half of tackles they dont hit the ground. So thats a silly one imo

 

[EL Hefe]

Bring back the biff

 

[CroydonDog]

You’ve just been elevated to NRL supreme leader.
what do you change?

• Bunker for tryscoring decisions only
• No 7 tackle set for kicks inside the attacking 30
• Fuck off the “out of the hands backwards” bullshit. Forward is forward
• Not held until your on the ground
• “Golden double” - 2 points wins GP. Kick a FG? Games still on, gotta kick another
• If you stay down and the ref stops play, you have to go off
• No sin bins. Send offs for extreme foul play but otherwise the integrity of the contest is paramount
• Fuck off the captains challenge
• 40/20, 30/30, 20/40

Finally…

• Bulldogs start every year on 4 points

I've been saying that about forward passes for ages.

My others off the top of my head:

1. No 7 tackle sets. Ever. Game is 6 tackles.
2. 5 minute sin bins. With the speed of today's game, its just too much time off.
3. Stay down, our comes the stretcher.
4. no "set restarts/six against", unless the opponents touch it like the old days.
5. Major overhaul of the strip rule - the second a 2nd defender touches the guy with the ball, it ceases to be a "one man tackle" even if the defenders later drop off.
6. No captains challenges.

Why is there this obsession to keep making the game "faster"?

 

[Chris Harding]

Allow a double movement. If you're close enough to move the ball into the in goal, you've earned the right to score. You can advance it anywhere in the field of play without penalty, so why should the goal line be any different?

If a player deliberately moves off the mark to play the ball, possession is turned over.

Outlaw the strip completely. That would stop a lot of wrestling in tackles.

Outlaw players moving across the path of defenders trying to prevent a kick on the fifth tackle. For some reason, refs watch blocks on the catcher, but not the blockers for the kicker.

 

[Bad Billy]

Not held till u are on the ground could bore fans to death when a big player is held up and not grounded. What do they do, hug until the next break? Half of tackles they dont hit the ground. So thats a silly one imo

They won’t do it. That’s the point.
players are always looking for the quick play-the-ball so they’ll allow themselves to be pulled down.

 

[Barbarian Bulldog]

Five minute sin bins for minor infringements. Although I think referees would overuse it at times.

 

[Freakzilla]

Transfer window after the GF. No one can sign with another team for the following season while the current season is in play.

Video ref can rule on forward passes.

Sin Bin is until the other team scores any points.

If a player is sent off then you can replace him with a bench player & it costs you an interchange.

No 7 tackle sets.

No golden point. If a game is a draw after 80 minutes then it ends in a draw. Only exceptions would be Origin & finals games. Extra time for them would be 10 minutes played not golden point.

 

[CroydonDog]

Allow a double movement. If you're close enough to move the ball into the in goal, you've earned the right to score. You can advance it anywhere in the field of play without penalty, so why should the goal line be any different?

If a player deliberately moves off the mark to play the ball, possession is turned over.

Agree with you on these two. I've always thought the double movement rule was dumb.

Also players walking off the mark is a real bug bear of mine.

 

[Kelpie03]

(1) NO KNOCK ON on if a player jugles the ball and it touches an opposing player, without the ball going to ground.
(2) Players been allowed to form a wall to protect a kicker during their set. It would stop late hits on Halves.
(3) At least 12 interchanges, with the 5 th interchange player repacing an injured player who is unable to return, however the injured player would have to miss the next game.

 

[Grunthos]

Bring back contested scrums.
They were only removed because Channel 9 worked out they could fit in an extra two minutes of advertising per broadcast.

 

[KiwiDog7]

Bring back shoulder charges and the biff

 

[Dogmonster]

Nude cheerleaders.

 

[Doogie]

I have been saying for years and posted on this forum a while back to reward a one on one legs tackle.

Same here - and the reward should be a 1 on 1 legs tackle, no play the ball until the tackler gets to marker.

But it won't happen because it slows the game down and apparently thats what people need.

Wonder if anyone bothered to ask the people.