I can only assume that was a tongue in cheek post

Funny though

havent you got better things to be doing Barry? you promised us all you had left.

For the last time.

I'm not Barry Mackenzie.

Not so much a new rule, but trying to trim out some of the interpretations we have at the moment which require the referee to judge whether something was intentional or not, i.e. the knock on involved in the tackle, charge downs etc.

You are doing a very good impression. Maybe it should point you in the direction of changing your behaviour if people are confusing you for that prizeprick

The momentum rule!

Hull fc to be penalised every time luaki (how ever u spell it) does a stupid tackle lol in all serious though a proply fed scrum direct in the middle like it used to be

There isn't one!
There is a "relativity" rule though.

Get rid of the new rule stating that an attacker cannot be dragged into touch. Great in theory, but there has been some real dodgy decisions regarding it.

Because they're rubbish, and don't know what offside is...

Ban all stripping of the ball even one on one and the kick through that goes dead should be brought back to the place it was kicked only if you have kicked from your own half.

When the ball is kicked downfield in general play, all players save the person playing the ball and the dummy half have to be behind the kicker, or they're offside and a penalty where the ball was kicked. Stops forwards heading off early so that the ball receiver can only get 10 metres, and means kickers will have to be much more focussed on aiming the ball, rather than just hoofing it as far as possible.

IIRC the NRL have introduced a modified version of the "downtown" rule whereby players can be in front of the kicker and can continue chasing downfield (whilst giving the receiver 10m) but are considered offside if are in front of where the play the ball was taken from when the ball is kicked. So it doesn't mean every forward has to get back behind the kicker but does limit how far downfield they can be at the kick.

I think the RFL should introduce this rule, since it's very frustrating watching Nick Fozzard set off running up field as soon as the PTB is taken and is half way down there by the time the ball is kicked nevermind caught!

the women weve got officiating the game in aus, its better they keep their kits on

let em worry about seeing all the forward passes they miss or teams offside

good point

how about modifying the current rule where a kick which is caught on the full in the tryline is a 20 metre tap to any kick caught on the full from anwhere from the 20 m. line back results in a play the ball from where the ball was kicked

it would reduce the amount of kicking for the wingers on last tackle

Yes mate,I have to say the 40/20 rule is probably the last decent one that RL has introduced.

Allow all teams to pass the ball forward, not just Leeds and St Helens.

Why only 1 rule change?
I would increase the players on the pitch to 15 a side
Reverse the numbers so the front row is 1,2 & 3...with the 2 new players at 6 & 7 .......all the way to 15 for the full back.
Remove the Play the Ball and instead have rucks and mauls.
Scrums would have to be contested with the ball being fed straight and the hooker actually "hooking" the ball.
Introduce Line-outs for when the ball is kicked into touch.
Charge 150 quid a ticket to internationals and play them at Twickenham.

....or better still....let Union continue to tinker with their rules and leave TGG alone.....it's fantastic as it is

There are a couple of good ones in here... among the mainly over complicated unworkable ones!

I would take an RU rule and put it into RL. If a defending player recovers the ball from a kick by dropping to floor he HAS to regain his feet before he is allowed to be tackled. If you tackle a player while still on the floor (in recovering the ball from a kick) you give away a penalty. If the player dropping on the ball does not regain his feet quickly (given he can't be tackled on the floor now) then he is guilty of a voluntary tackle. This encourages well placed attacking kicks close to the touch lines and stop defending players just stopping on the floor when they are close to touch just to kill the ball. It is one of the rules in RU that works well for me.

Simpler than that; either introduce 30m taps or, any kick defused in the ingoal results in a 20m tap. It would bring the 'bomb' further into the field of play and therefore make it much less effective. You don't want massive overhauls, just minor tweaks which even up the balance a little. I think you'd see a return to pacemen on the outside instead of blokes like Matt King, who, with all due respect to the bloke, i'd leather in a 100m race.

bloody hell, you're better than matt king and ryan atkins, how come you aren't playing on the left side of our 3/4 line then?

Better? no, I've never said that once.
In answer to your question I was a very late developer physically. I was the second smallest person in my school year of which I was also the youngest and I still played service area. If I had my 6 inches and 5 1/2 stone now when most of the other kids developed then, who knows, its difficult getting to the top. Its why I maintain that many of the structures in junior rugby are just.. wrong, kids with ability are disgarded for 'the big kids' without a rugby brain far too young. I played enough to know that Ryan Atkins will never make a top class centre, I said it 2 years ago, I still maintain it. You did watch the 4 nations right? Embarrassing for the poor bloke. Great athlete, never a top class centre.
Matt Kings just.. slow. He got caught with a 7 yard start by Malcolm Alker for gods sakes

At present the "bomb" caught on goal is a 20 mtr restart.
A grubber kick caught in goal and the ball catcher tackled it's a goal line drop out.
I'd make the two rules consistant.
Any kick caught in goal will be a 20 mtr restart.

The rule of the game, as has been said, just need adjusting from time to time. Not a drastic overhaul.
It's the competitions and competition rules that need an urgent overhaul.

I would make it illegal for Ben Thaler to enter another RL ground for the rest of his life