its a good point you make. But surely that's just down to the timing of how long the ruck ref is allowing play to be slowed? If it's so fast as to allow the sort of unimaginative play as you describe, then maybe we can tweak it slightly so that defenders can 'stabilise' a bit longer? This will give them enough time to form a reasonable marker defence without allowing all the ruck infringements which are a nightmare for the ref to police standing back in the line.

I dont think its an argument against having two refs though, is it?

2 Refs, split the game into quaters, allow coaches to challenge calls made by the ref and we all have to sing the national Anthem before kick off

It's the Future

I'll miss shouting [size=200FORWARD[/size though

You can still shout it. I still shout [size=200FEEEEEDING ![/size when the scrum half rolls the ball to the feet of the loose forward.

I still do that every so often! gets a laugh every time!

half the nrl coaches like 2 refs . and about half the captains likt it aswell