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I wish the NRL would chill with the rule changes for a bit.

If anything needs adjusting, it’s players being sin binned and the other team scoring 3 tries in 10 mins. It can straight up wreck entire game (even worse when it’s a 50/50 call) so, I think if the opposition score while a team has a sin bin, the player should just be allowed back on.
 
cktiger said:
Wish I could have some faith in him.
He was supposed to be the diamond in the family but struggles to stay on the field and has one of the worst tackling techniques I have ever seen.
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Thinking about this..

Tackling Technique should be teachable.
A mentor told me "Some skills are very teachable, others are very hard to teach". i.e. if you have someone who needs to use a basic computer program, you can probably teach that. However when you need someone who can manage angry people, that's a hard skill to teach".

Yes a poor technique is a concern. Our coaching should be onto that and shaping his technique better.

Not wanting to hit hard or fear of getting seriously injured in a tackle... that is far harder to teach (but teachable).

Being an organising halfback,,, really hard.
 
balmain boy said:
Absolutely laughable.
If a team is on a roll it's currently practically impossible to stop that momentum. You can go 10-15 mins without touching the ball. By which point you're so exhausted your game falls to pieces.
See Samoa yesterday after Klein cheated them out of contention.
If the team on the back foot gets the ball it at least gives them an opportunity to fight back, get field position, pin they're opponents down the other end etc.
In most sports when one team scores the other team gets the ball. Or it's a 50/50 contest.
Time for fewer blow outs given the rising disparity in talent on rosters
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It might just trade one set of issues for another. Receiving the ball from a kick off and getting back into good field position is not easy when the opposition is on a roll. The rule change would effectively restart the game in the 20m zone of the team who’s on the back foot. The chances of them getting pinned in their own half or turning the ball over and giving the team on a roll the ball in good field position is potentially high.

If you’re a team on the back foot the better prospect is to restart the game in the oppositions 20m, as far away from your try line as possible. The current rules give the team on the back foot good field position. They don’t get the ball but they get a fighting chance.
 
pacey said:
I wish the NRL would chill with the rule changes for a bit.

If anything needs adjusting, it’s players being sin binned and the other team scoring 3 tries in 10 mins. It can straight up wreck entire game (even worse when it’s a 50/50 call) so, I think if the opposition score while a team has a sin bin, the player should just be allowed back on.
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No way. Often players are rightly binned for stopping the opposition scoring, yet in your scenario, they are allowed back on immediately upon that which they were removed from the field for preventing occurs.
 
pacey said:
I wish the NRL would chill with the rule changes for a bit.

If anything needs adjusting, it’s players being sin binned and the other team scoring 3 tries in 10 mins. It can straight up wreck entire game (even worse when it’s a 50/50 call) so, I think if the opposition score while a team has a sin bin, the player should just be allowed back on.
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I think it’s one of the key reasons why my love for the game isn’t what it used to be. It’s a different game to what it was 20-30 years ago. The powers that be have tinkered it with it so much, it’s now a shadow of itself. Where as look at soccer, NFL, baseball, basketball etc. Still what the same as they were in the 80’s.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
I think it’s one of the key reasons why my love for the game isn’t what it used to be. It’s a different game to what it was 20-30 years ago. The powers that be have tinkered it with it so much, it’s now a shadow of itself. Where as look at soccer, NFL, baseball, basketball etc. Still what the same as they were in the 80’s.
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I'm not against rule changes per se. Without them we would still be playing unlimited interchange and the defence only retreating 5m. The corner post no longer being out is an example of a very good and logical rule change.
My issue is that they change rules now without thinking of potential consequences. Furthermore the constant tinkering is in response to the worst I'll conceived rule change of all the 6 again instead of a penalty.
The moment this changed many pundits saw the potential issues which eventually arose. They then walked it back to penalties inside 40m to try to erase the cynical holding down of players deep in their own half.
Now since the game has sped up and momentum is becoming an ever increasing factor in the game they are changing the rules again. If they didn't screw with it in the first place we wouldn't be needing more changes now.

Having said all that. Given the current state of the game, i do think scorers kick off is better than teams potentially not touching the ball for multiple sets.
 
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