Yeah i hate seeing any good defensive play punished. Get rid of BOD as well. Horrible rule.

This is an easy one to solve, all the ref's need to do is count the tackle time, if the defenders are still involved after say a count of three then penalty. Of course you could have sly attackers trying to hold them on to gain a penalty, but to counter this get rid of the one-on-one only stripping rule so the attacker has to have greater ball security and can't really worry about conning the ref.

Going by the weather today 4th February 2011, the "summer" season should start around the end of April!!!

www.nrl.com/news/latestnews/news ... fault.aspx i think thats an excellent idea, along the lines of the 40/20 it will put defences on the back foot introducing more uncertainty. thoughts?

www.nrl.com/news/latestnews/news ... fault.aspx i think thats an excellent idea, along the lines of the 40/20 it will put defences on the back foot introducing more uncertainty. thoughts?

It's interesting, but I doubt it'll be introduced properly.

A little bit too radical IMO.

Sounds interesting that, although not sure how much it will really affect things (I suspect the 5m would need to be increased to 10m as if players practice this a lot you could end up with it being used simply as a way to get more tackles rather than out-and-out attack, which is the aim of the rule). I gather the NRL is also pushing for scrums to be at least properly bound and stopping players being able to simply touch the scrum before the ball is cleared. That will hopefully slow down the defence a bit and give more space for attacking scrum moves.

I would add the rule already suggested that if a kick is made from within your own half and rolls dead, the defence get a restart from where the kick took place. Currently its a dull play and rewards nothing more than being able to kick a long way. I also agree that a cleaned up grubber kick (certainly from within 10m of the line) should result in a 20m restart, not a drop-out. The aim of the rule was to encourage risk-taking kicks in an effort to score tries, but in reality 9 times out of 10 the aim is solely to get the ball back, not to score.