I reckon the two coaches must have had words before the Sky interviews as Radford walked right past him when he finished, no look or handshake. Poor game, I thought the RFL were experimenting with new rules allowing forward passes.

Agree 100%.

You also see clubs over trying the Storm approach. Players hold a up a player and then try to pull him down just as the "held" call is made. This adds at least 5 or 6 seconds to the PTB. It's obvious it's coached and players try it all the time.

Simply get rid of the "mooooove!" call and start blowing up if players aren't moving off the tackled player when the tackle is complete. At the same time enforce the rule that the ball carrier must regain his feet and play the ball with his foot. It's how it used to be about 20+ years ago and worked fine then.

Absolutely it's an issue on both sides of the world - the NRL clubs are simply better at it in defence, and after watching all of this weekends NRL games with this point in mind, I'd say in around 90% of the play the balls, the attackers have placed the ball on the floor whilst tackled ready to play it, whilst also using the ball as a lever to get to their feet - this is against the rules, penalise it.

Apply the rules of the tackle and the PTB consistently and literally and the game is infinitely better, with much less room for clubs to exploit the PTB area.

Powell being the exception? Erm no, Cas are just as guilty as the rest at the messing about to get a penalty tactics- They just also play some decent rugby among it.
Like someone has said- arms proliferation one side won't give it up- so all must or the game is going to carry on bring the dirge it has started to become.

Theres a list of things that need stopping.

Milking a pen by dropping the ball
Holding the ball in the SR of the scrum
The stupid back to 6 rule when the ball accidentally brushes a defender trying to wrap the player in a tackle.
Throwing the ball into a defender who is trying to get back in line (this has been somewhat sorted)
Stepping off the mark and wrapping the square marker up.

totally agree. and the refs have the power to stop it. but they won't.