What happened to the days of yore ,even early superleague, where an attacker was brought down by one or at most 2 defenders & was back to his feet & playing the ball in a split second?

The NRL is so structured that a quick 6 is given a “game changer” status over there because that is what it’s is. Rips up the structure for a spell.
However SL isn’t so structured and isn’t so much a shock play.

Don't disagree Rogues but certainly Warrington are at their most threatening when allowed quick PTB's to progress up the field. So anything that promotes the quick PTB is good for us. Fair to to say that in the recent past when we have arrived at the right end of the field we have sometimes been clueless relying on the kick and hope.

I think Bradford's dominance in the later Matthew Elliott/early Brian Noble era changed a few things in RL. Before other teams caught up, they were bigger and better conditioned than everyone else in the league, and they perfected the art of holding up the man with the ball in the tackle, letting him make enough slow progress to stop the ref calling held, while their line got set and then burst off the line as soon as the ball was played.

It seemed to become a big battle of 'winning the ruck' around then. I remember when we got Mike Forshaw for a season, noticing how good he was at getting quick play the balls when he was in possession, and slowing up the play the ball when he was the tackler.

watching the warriors panthers game this morning (no spoilers) but there was a few sets in the 2nd half where they got 6 to go in their own half in a five minute spell, with how they're playing i would wager they would have snapped the refs hand off to get a kick and get further upfield.

That is exactly why I am uncertain about this rule. And the other query, 2 minutes to go under the opposition sticks 1 point behind another 6 is not what I want. To be fair it is still early days.

Interesting to see the commentators suggesting the video refs getting decisions wrong when all we here a lot of the time is how great the officiating is in the NRL by some.

Looks like this is set to be adopted here for the rest of this seaon at least: https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... nges-2020/ Perhaps more controversially, we may be abandoning scrums for 2020 on health grounds. Question: if the RFL finds a way to replace scrums for this season, will they ever return to RL?

Looks like this is set to be adopted here for the rest of this seaon at least: https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... nges-2020/ Perhaps more controversially, we may be abandoning scrums for 2020 on health grounds. Question: if the RFL finds a way to replace scrums for this season, will they ever return to RL?

Quote ="Asgardian13"Looks like this is set to be adopted here for the rest of this seaon at least: https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... nges-2020/ Perhaps more controversially, we may be abandoning scrums for 2020 on health grounds. Question: if the RFL finds a way to replace scrums for this season, will they ever return to RL?'" Scrums aren't allowed because of health reasons, yet tackling is? Simply shows how ridiculous this whole thing is.

Quote ="Asgardian13"Looks like this is set to be adopted here for the rest of this seaon at least: https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... nges-2020/ Perhaps more controversially, we may be abandoning scrums for 2020 on health grounds. Question: if the RFL finds a way to replace scrums for this season, will they ever return to RL?'" Scrums aren't allowed because of health reasons, yet tackling is? Simply shows how ridiculous this whole thing is.

Here here..my grandson plays for crosfields and his last 2 games around march they weren't allowed to shake there opponents hands at full time..yet could tackle...sheer bonkers

According to a report in the Guardian, the following is why scrums are different: [ithe hearing (was) informed that if a one-on-one tackle constitutes one occurrence of close contact, a single scrum represents 132 instances.

With 12 scrums per game on average in Super League this season, that results in over 1,500 occasions of close contact in every fixture[/i

That's absolute nonsense. I've just watched the Manly-Broncos game this morning.

We had plenty of 3 man tackles (So that's 4 people in contact). We also had coverage of about 20 blokes all crowded into changing rooms at half time. And then we had plenty of shots of players spitting and clearing their nostrils all around the pitch, which the players will be falling into..

Yet we are concerning ourselves with a 5 second scrum... you really couldn't make it up....

Perhaps to avoid unnecessary contact in the tackle stiff arm & tripping should be allowed .