Great rule this, the games i've watched so far have really speeded up play the ball, if brought in here tho' I fear Trin would hardly touch the ball.

They have already thought of a benefit in defence by giving away another six usually after the first tackle to allow them to reset their defensive line by laying on. This is appearing to be the case regardless of the area of play but think of the benefit if you are defending your line knowing that you won’t face a penalty and just lose one tackle.

You're right, but I think the benefits overall outweigh the negatives.

I like the rule, because I think it's being used where the laying-on isn't quite enough for a penalty but obviously slowing it down. You don't want refs blowing for penalties all the time but a quick punishment for being too slow seems to work.

its made the game over here so much better to watch.
However its taken 3 rounds for the players to push the boundaries and last weeks games have been slower.

The refs boss has come out this week and said they will not tolerate this and players will be sent to the sin bin - so this weeks games could be interesting.

I like it. The play the balls are as they used to be. Hate the amount of wrestling that goes on nowadays. Still, Chesters wrestling room might have to be put to another uses. (Well, I presume that was it's use)

it has bought the ball playing small forwards back into the game .