Things you don't like about the game

[jirskyr]

In a 1-1 strip situation where the ball hits the ground, it should be a dead ball and possession granted to whoever dives on it first. No more knock-ons from strip attempts, because it is never clear who is at fault - both players have technically touched and dropped the footy.

I would also modify the "stripping in the act of scoring" allowance that has been introduced, because it's clearly too difficult to judge what constitutes an attempt to score and what to do with the result of the strip. You should always be penalised for a 2+ man strip anywhere on the field, but put it in the rules that stripping cannot lead to a penalty try. That way teams are allowed to stop tries by whatever manner they can, but the attack gets the ball back.

For people who think the rules are too abstract and complicated, just watch a half of rugby. For people who think the refs have too much influence in our game, watch soccer and see where contentious calls can lead.

 

[TigersFan4Life]

Just to add. more Sunday afternoon football. In the NFL, they play between 13 and 16 games each week, and with the excpetion of their season opener, Monday Night Football and Thanksgiving (Thursday) all of them are played on Sunday, with the majority starting at 1pm eastern time. I know we don't have as many games to work with as our league is only half as big as theirs, but surely there has to be a return to the good old days of four or five Sunday afternoon games.

I'd schedule the weekend like this:

1 game Friday night. Stuff this "Queensland has to have a Friday night game" crap.
2 games on Saturday.
5 games on Sunday.
Kill the Monday night game.

 

[Tiger_Watto]

Just to add. more Sunday afternoon football. In the NFL, they play between 13 and 16 games each week, and with the excpetion of their season opener, Monday Night Football and Thanksgiving (Thursday) all of them are played on Sunday, with the majority starting at 1pm eastern time. I know we don't have as many games to work with as our league is only half as big as theirs, but surely there has to be a return to the good old days of four or five Sunday afternoon games.

I'd schedule the weekend like this:

1 game Friday night. Stuff this "Queensland has to have a Friday night game" crap.
2 games on Saturday.
5 games on Sunday.
Kill the Monday night game.

That mentality will see the TV Rights Revenue drop by 50%!!!

 

[innsaneink]

* Refs call held earlier when the third man enters the tackle….might lessen the wrestling in the game

* Reward classic legs tackle (one on one) more, refs could call ''hold, hold, hold - release!" over about 3 or 4 seconds, gives a marker time to negate a dummy half scoot which is what results from these tackles which is why we rarely see them anymonre

 

[Yossarian]

Grounding the ball should be with downward pressure with the hands only! No torsos, shoulders, elbows, guts! And forget this seperation nonsense - downward pressure. Some of the tries I've seen awarded have been terrible (was it Ben Barba who basically grazed a few blades of grass with the ball while a metre over the dead ball line but in the air?).

Any time the ball hits a player and goes forward (apart from a genuine kick with a part of the leg below the knee) is a knock-on. I hate seing teams benefit from mistakes because it hits someone in the head or on their chest and goes forward.

Agree with innsanelink about legs tackles being rewarded.

 

[happy_tiger]

Great ideas Ink I have always thought that rewards for the classic leg tackles should be rewarded more fairly
And the ruck needs to be cleared by a three count
If the referee gets to 4 Penalty
If 3 infridgements occur the next player that get caught out ruck infringements has to sit out the rest of the half

 

[hammertime]

I agree about the leg tackle - great idea Ink.

For me
1) Coaches challenge on bad calls - Should completely eliminate all the frustrations and constant articles about refs. Keep it at 2 a game and the coach keeps the challenge if they are right.

2) Reduce the amount of interchanges. I want to see guys really start to get tired. Would open the game up and certainly help us!

3) We need to squeeze in more ad breaks if we want to compete with the AFL in TV funding. I'm not sure how, but we need to have small stoppages on a certain play to insert an ad. Yes, I know all you purists won't like that suggestion, neither do I. But I want league to reach its potential, and it can't do it without increasing revenue and having a comparable product to the AFL… If people want to keep free-to-air, it needs to be done somehow.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Just to add. more Sunday afternoon football. In the NFL, they play between 13 and 16 games each week, and with the excpetion of their season opener, Monday Night Football and Thanksgiving (Thursday) all of them are played on Sunday, with the majority starting at 1pm eastern time. I know we don't have as many games to work with as our league is only half as big as theirs, but surely there has to be a return to the good old days of four or five Sunday afternoon games.

I'd schedule the weekend like this:

**1 game Friday night. Stuff this "Queensland has to have a Friday night game" crap.**
2 games on Saturday.
5 games on Sunday.
Kill the Monday night game.

You're effectively isolating half your viewer base by doing this, and losing a four hour mortgage on sports audiences. Not a smart idea.

 

[Gary_Bakerloo]

The lack of of further rationalisation of the competition. There are too many teams in Sydney.

 

[happy_tiger]

Just to add. more Sunday afternoon football. In the NFL, they play between 13 and 16 games each week, and with the excpetion of their season opener, Monday Night Football and Thanksgiving (Thursday) all of them are played on Sunday, with the majority starting at 1pm eastern time. I know we don't have as many games to work with as our league is only half as big as theirs, but surely there has to be a return to the good old days of four or five Sunday afternoon games.

I'd schedule the weekend like this:

1 game Friday night. Stuff this "Queensland has to have a Friday night game" crap.
2 games on Saturday.
5 games on Sunday.
Kill the Monday night game.

Great thinking Tigersfan4life
Why would we want to watch a game that had a packed house every week at Suncorp or Dairy Farmers when we could watch a game with sometimes less than 12000 played in a stadium that holds 80000 + fans with no atmosphere
The 2 games on Friday night is one of the best innovations the current administation has brought in Maybe if they changed the timeslots to 6.30 and 8.30 it would be better so the young uns can stay up an watch

 

[Juro]

1\. Any 1-on-1 tackle should be automatically dominant.

2\. Chargedowns should not restart the tackle count.

Both these things should be encouraged, not penalised!

 

[tigerdre]

Mid season signings

 

[jirskyr]

* Reward classic legs tackle (one on one) more, refs could call ''hold, hold, hold - release!" over about 3 or 4 seconds, gives a marker time to negate a dummy half scoot which is what results from these tackles which is why we rarely see them anymonre

I thought the refs already started to give leg tacklers more time this year. I didn't notice it to be much of an issue - excessive holding on legs penalty seems to have disappeared, like the flop penalty and anything for Robbie Farah catching the markers out of position.

I was particularly watching Fulton and Gibbs on these types of tackles; they generally seemed to have time to hold, get to their feet and work around to the marker.

Problem with a legs tackle is no matter how long you can hold, you are always going to struggle to get up and to marker faster than the play the ball.

 

[innsaneink]

It allows another player to get to marker, it doesnt have to be the tackler.

I think you are confusing what you think is legs tacklers holding on longer with tacklers lying around in the play the ball getting in the dummy halfs way, which has clearly become a tactic…refs are instructed not to penalise this as it just makes the ruck messier as is

 

[Jazza]

- Attendances. Sure the numbers in general are slowly improving but our numbers are embarrassing compared to the AFL. I'm glad to see membership numbers going up though.

- Lack of creativity in the game. Sure it's great to see some great defence but really I'm sure coaches can do more. BRING BACK THE KICKING DUAL! I think the there can be a few changes made but won't happen:
- Lower the amount of players on the field to 12 by eliminating the lock forward. Now that scrums are a free for all with backs joining in.
- Lower the interchange to 6 and the amount of players on the bench to 3\. That allows the 2 front rowers to have a break and come back on and it still allows either a 2nd rower to come off and come back on. I think coaches have too much of a luxury with interchanges and it is shown by backs being on the bench until the last 5 minutes.

- Players lying down. Networks should not show replays of high tackles until after the play has resumed, after play has resumed and a replay has been shown, the video ref can put the player on report without play stopping, or the match review can do what they do now and review incidents on the Monday.

- Take more matches to the country. I think they have eliminated City/Country next year in favour of a country round. But it needs to be done more often, also any profits made from the round should go to Rugby League in that town.

 

[Demps]

I don't like Melbourne's defense.
Tackles painfully slow and boring.
Makes for a long boring game, worst team in the comp for viewing/

 

[Marshall_magic]

* Reward classic legs tackle (one on one) more, refs could call ''hold, hold, hold - release!" over about 3 or 4 seconds, gives a marker time to negate a dummy half scoot which is what results from these tackles which is why we rarely see them anymonre

I thought the refs already started to give leg tacklers more time this year. I didn't notice it to be much of an issue - excessive holding on legs penalty seems to have disappeared, like the flop penalty and anything for Robbie Farah catching the markers out of position.

I was particularly watching Fulton and Gibbs on these types of tackles; they generally seemed to have time to hold, get to their feet and work around to the marker.

Problem with a legs tackle is no matter how long you can hold, you are always going to struggle to get up and to marker faster than the play the ball.

Gus said on the Sunday Roast a month or so back that he told his players in his last few years as a coach that legs tackles are a detriment and to no longer go in low.

Sad, but unless you hit them sweet and put the player on their back, he's actually right.

 

[happy_tiger]

I don't like Melbourne's defense.
Tackles painfully slow and boring.
Makes for a long boring game, worst team in the comp for viewing/

Demps now we have Melbourne's and the NRL best wrestler on the books we may become the new Melbourne in a defensive sense

 

[WestsSupporter]

For tries, stop the clock when the referee has determined whether or not the kick is successful or not. This stops players taking 10 years to take the kick, and others taking 10 years to walk back for the kick off.

x1000000, and when Jamie Soward is kicking no matter the circumstances the clock needs to be stopped. Forgot who the Dragons played but he started his kick at 77:20 by the time he was done the other team had time to do the short restart,get tackled and it was game over.

 

[Marshall_magic]

For tries, stop the clock when the referee has determined whether or not the kick is successful or not. This stops players taking 10 years to take the kick, and others taking 10 years to walk back for the kick off.

x1000000, and when Jamie Soward is kicking no matter the circumstances the clock needs to be stopped. Forgot who the Dragons played but he started his kick at 77:20 by the time he was done the other team had time to do the short restart,get tackled and it was game over.

I would leave the clock running while it is being lined up (in my opinion this is still part of the game), bring in a rule where if they take longer than 2 minutes, the shot at goal is surrendered, also fine them $5000 if they take longer than 90 seconds. Once the kick is taken, the clock should stop, same with field goals and penalty goals being kicked.