2019 season rule amendments

[Tomay]

Lucky our refs are very good at using their judgement in discretionary matters...

 

[HoldenV8]

And how about the impossible to implement sin bin clock?

You know the one that rugby seems to be able to put on the tv screen and even in the 7's comp as well. NFL have all sorts of clocks. NBA have some crazy thing called a shot clock that runs the entire game. Was even watching some ping pong from korea the other day that had a countdown clock.

How bloody hard could it be?

Basketball's clocks can be complicated. Sometimes they do get it wrong, but not very often.

Clock rules in basketball are strictly enforced, be it the 24 second shot clock or the 10 second rule where after in-bounding after a score the team with the ball then has just 10 seconds to get the ball into their own attacking half (and that 10 seconds also counts as part of the 24 second shot clock. Once the ball is in play, both clocks start). You violate either clock, a buzzer goes off and you lose possession, simple as that.

Basketball's clock rules are just about the only rules where its not open to the local referee's or league's interpretation of the rule. Its basically a one size fits all set of rules. No if's, no but's.

And those clocks are shown on screen in televised games, which is just about all games in professional leagues like the NBA, NBL or international competition.

 

[HappilyManly]

Defending penalties the key to success in 2018
Author
Alicia NewtonNRL.com Reporter
Timestamp
Mon 24 Dec 2018, 02:01 PM


There were 3177 penalties blown in the 2018 Telstra Premiership regular season with 15.5% (492) resulting in tries being scored in the following set of six.

NRL.com Stats has crunched the numbers to highlight which teams were most likely to concede tries after a tap penalty or kick for touch.

The ability to defend a set after an error or penalty conceded remains a key statistic for most teams to improve on in the new year.

Grand finalists the Sydney Roosters and Melbourne Storm have a proven ability to defend their line after giving away a penalty.

Melbourne joined St George Illawarra as joint leaders in this department with just 21 tries from penalties conceded in 24 regular-season games, with the Storm conceding just one try per every 9.3 penalties – the best ratio in the league. The Roosters finished in the top three with 23 tries on their way to a 14th premiership.

South Sydney, who ended the year with a preliminary final exit, were ranked worst out of the top four sides to finish ninth in this area with 30 tries conceded.

Penrith made it to the second week of the finals but their discipline let them down, finishing as the most penalised team of the regular season and ranking worst of the top-eight sides for conceding penalties from tries, with 36.

Bottom-eight sides Newcastle (35), Canberra (37) and Manly (39) were their own worst enemies at times in 2018 and will need to improve on their resolve after conceding penalities.

Canberra's ill-discipline late in games effectively cost them a finals berth

Bottom-placed Parramatta finished equal last with the Gold Coast in conceding tries after a penalty on 42 - an average of almost two per game.


https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/12/24/defending-penalties-the-key-to-success-in-2018/

 

[globaleagle]

^ That's interesting. I wonder if it takes into account where the penalties were conceded?

Getting 3 consecutive penalties on the 5th tackle while defending your line may result in more tries that a first tackle penalty way up field.

Still...strong defence wins something or other.

 

[Loobs]

No, not for this site (though who knows what Christmas presents Dan has in store for us), but some tweaks for the footy season....

https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/12/18/2019-season-rule-amendments/

The new rules for 2019 will include:

• A reduction of the scrum clock – reducing from 35 to 30 seconds

• A reduction of the drop-out clock – reducing from 30 to 25 seconds

• An increase to dangerous contact neck or head charges – with Grade 2 increasing to 300 points and Grade 3 increasing to 500 points (a Grade 1 charge will remain at 100 points)


• Any player sent to the sin bin or sent off will be required to run from the field of play, taking the most direct route to the dressing room. Failure to do so may lead to Clubs being breached and fined under NRL Rules and/or offending players may be charged with Contrary Conduct under the NRL Judiciary Code

• Allowing the Judiciary Panel to find a player guilty of an alternative charge when charged with a Shoulder Charge (e.g. Dangerous Contact)

Mr Annesley also confirmed that no change would be made to the number of interchange players for season 2019.

Maybe ditch the bunker and bring in VAR.

 

[Ranga]

A lot of the teams were giving away penalties in order to get their defensive line set again, particularly in their defensive 20m. So often there was not much of a benefit to the attacking team.

Back to rule changes, I have three wishes:

1. They get rid of the penalty on half way for kicking the ball out on the full from a restart. The penalty is completely disproportionate to the infraction. Either a scrum on half way or a seven tackle 20m restart is sufficient.

2. There be no rule or interpretation changes during the season. Last year was absolutely comical how they had “the crack down” on Todd’s orders and then they changed the “interpretation”. It was a farce - you can’t have one set of rules/interpretation deciding some games and not others. I think I am right in saying that the AFL will acknowledge particular rules that need to be changed during the season, but won’t change the rules or interpretation of the rules until the end of the year.

3. In the attacking 20m, for repeat infringements by the defensive side, the ref doesn’t blow a penalty but just restarts the tackle count just like in the Super League.

On the last point, last year there was a lot of inconsistency for when players would be sent to the sin-bin. I may have written this previously, but I think one way to make it consistent would be to specify the number of penalties a side can give away before it loses a player to the bin - e.g. 6 a half or 3 consecutive penalties in the defensive 20m. This would require the referees to count, though.

 

[Brissie Kid]

The bast way to speed the game up would be for referees to stop ruling every dropped ball a knock on.

 

[HoldenV8]

2. There be no rule or interpretation changes during the season. Last year was absolutely comical how they had “the crack down” on Todd’s orders and then they changed the “interpretation”. It was a farce - you can’t have one set of rules/interpretation deciding some games and not others. I think I am right in saying that the AFL will acknowledge particular rules that need to be changed during the season, but won’t change the rules or interpretation of the rules until the end of the year.

That is my biggest bone of contention if truth be told. Not only do they often change the interpretation of rules at any time during the season, quite often if something happens during the Thursday or Friday games that cause a stir, the interpretation is changed mid bloody round!!! So if you play on the Saturday or Sunday, what they got away with earlier in the round might be pulled up later in the round simply because of the NRL's constant knee-jerk way of doing things.

Its a totally unfair way of doing things and highly unprofessional for a league that claims to be a professional sporting league.

And you are correct, the AFL sets its rules in stone before the season starts and that's that. Any changes that they have made might prove to be wrong in Round 1, but they are still there come the Grand Final. They don't change it until after the season.

 

[Scorpio]

That last one worries me a bit.

It says to me that basically if you get a shoulder charge charge but the judiciary can't find you guilty of one, they will charge you with dangerous contact.

So essentially you're screwed if you get cited by the MRC.

They are just closing the "Free Billy" Slater shoulder charge loophole with that one.

 

[globaleagle]

Superleague are moving towards the 2 ref system because "everyone in the nrl from fans to coaches love the 2 ref system."

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/01/02...o-end-nrl-debate-about-return-to-one-referee/

lol... that seems like a total.. total lie!

...."Super League officials said there was widespread support for two referees, particularly among former NRL players...."

• The changes have become adopted, accepted and very broadly liked by fans, commentators, players and coaches.

 

[The Who]

I knew we had props in the NRL.
Now we have propaganda.