Don't let the RFL get a sniff of it FFS !

With the powerplay, assuming you are almost certain to concede a try during that period, why bother killing yourselves for 5 minutes trying to defend against the inevitable when you could just deliberately concede the try straight away and get your 2 players back on the pitch. Am I missing something?

You have a spark of an idea there.

What would be better though is if the remote control car could have a kicking tee mounted on top of it with a ball positioned ready for kicking - when an all-in biff starts the car would be sent out on the pitch to describe random circles around the fight, any player who can take a kick while the vehicle is in motion gets six points if he lands a goal.

I can see a 26 player biff suddenly breaking up into a frantic Benny Hill style chase around the pitch with lots of desperate air kicks and resulting hilarity, surely the BBC would be interested since they ditched Its A Knockout ?

I like the way your going with this. To add, if I may, all spectators are given a kazoo on entry to play the benny hill theme tune during the kerfuffle and said monies are put into a "jackpot" which the winning team can donate to the RFL's "keep Sam Tomkins in league" fund.

how about a really radical approach ?

let's play without a ball !

I used to do it with golf and played some superb shots !

It's 106 years since the game of rugby got it's greatest ever rule change - the reduction from 15 to 13-a-side.

It provided space for try-scoring to be the main emphasis of the game, unlike Union where the game has always been (and is increasingly so IMO) about kicking to win. Most of the rule changes since them have similarly been designed to make the game faster and more entertaining. This 'powerplay' concept though is just ridiculous. It's not as if we don't get high-scoring games in both the NRL and SL without having to force the issue any further.

What next - The 9-a-side Challenge Cup competition?

....and presumably the 4 Tackle Rule was also greeted with the same sort of derision.

they're

I've got some ideas:

"Multi-ball" - add two extra balls for 10 minutes (coaches call) - either side can use them so you have to attack and defend at the same time - awesome.

"20-20" - if you can kick a ball from inside your 20 out of play in the opponents 20 then defenders have to put on blindfolds for the next set of tackles.

"Dogging" - instead of a yellow card if a player delivers a high shot then he has to go sit in a 1992 Vauxhall Astra in the stadium car park until he's been relieved of his stress by a 55 year old married woman from Dagenham.

"Fat Lady" - instead of a hooter to end the game at 80 minutes a fat lady (nominated by winning a coin toss) has to follow a series of clues until she finds a song sheet. Once she finds the song sheet she then has to run on the pitch and sing it - thus ending the match.

I think there should be various pieces of fruit suspended 15 feet above the pitch, and if you dislodge enough of them with a rugby ball you get a series of rewards. 3 watermelons = extra life (next opposition try scores 0 points). 3 bananas = invincibility for 20 seconds, and so on.

Also, after 20 minutes the playing surface should change to rubble, 40 to ice, 60 to fire.

This one has to be implemented, but only in the event of a draw, and we go into Extra time.

We'd have to go all MLS, and have no draws in league games

you lot have all gone mad


there are some crazy ideas

i would just play some music and one side must stand still till the music stops

Instead of the "golden point" the defenders stand on their try line with all turn their backs on the attackers. If they turn around and catch the attackers moving then the ball is turned over.

Another alternative to the "golden point" would be the "golden pint". This would allow a little fan participation. Teams must bring from the crowd their biggest beer boy to bolt a pint in the fastest time (Jonny Vegas could give Saints the edge here).

Some of your ideas are positively sane compared to:

2 extra players per side
3 points for all goal kicks (except conversions)
Penalise brilliant relieving kicks by allowing a quick uncontested 'throw-in'
Allow at least 5 minutes play after each offence before declaring advantage over.
Spend at least 15 minutes of every game with contested scrums/line-outs (usually leading to penalties)
Penalise line-breaks by forcing the attacking player to drop the ball when they're tackled.
Allow kicks out on the full from within the 20 to make sure attackers don't get too near the try-line
etc., etc., etc

I have to coach it. The RFU is considering changeing the format of mini rugby completely. U8's is tag rugby, 7 a side at the moment, then the next year it's basically proper rugby - 9 a side. You can't do any contact with them before the 1st of September and competitive matches start in October. So you get 4 weeks to teach them to tackle, ruck, maul, lineout and scrum (uncontested until U10 - 3 man). Then there's passing out of the tackle, ball retention, contact skills, attacking lines, support play et.c etc. And then the rules.
Guess what the RFU wants to do? U9 would be rugby league 7 a side. No rucks, no mauls, no lineouts and no scrums. All we would concentrate on would be tackling, attacking lines, contact skills (offloading) and defensive shape.

Still we went to Bath this week and played at the Rec. Scored our first try from a driving maul, pretty awesome for 8 year olds who have only been doing this since September.

Having watched a number of recent games on TV, I'd think throwing and catching a rugby ball might be a good place to start.

U6.

That along with running forwards.

Yeah, but they forget by the time they get to U26

why Dagenham ? and not Dewsbury .....

do you have personal experience of such a woman ?

if so,do you have any contact details ?

Woah woah woah, I'm from Dewsbury, why pick on Dewsbury ?...................oh hang on, I see your point

Speaking of Dewsbury...

One child hides in the crowd and its mother makes a desperate appeal for its safe return, the crowd have 80 minutes to find the child or raise £100,000 whichever comes first, the Press Association may also be brought into the search as can Look North and Calendar, the game ends when the child is found and/or all the money is spent.

Hours of fun for the extended family.

I thought of the roughest dung-hole I could. Then I realised that I didn't really want to kick off with Bradford fans and picked Dagenham instead (the Jewel in the Crown of Essex).

Try Tilbury - I had the misfortune to have to work there for a while - Dagenham is Cannes compared to Tilbury..

you could have picked Cas ?

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Six to go almost works, but the same effect could be achieved with a little less chaos by using "free kicks" for offences you don't want to result in kicks at goal.

Six to go speeds the game up, but frankly I'd rather have the opportunity to hoof the ball 40 metres down field, and it's barely a penalty at all for a team penalised on the first tackle.

In short, load of old poppycock.

Some of the counter-proposals on here have potential though.