so the game should just resign itself to knee jerk reactions forever no matter the consequence, because of coaches.There has never been one rule since 1908 that coaches and players haven't within weeks gotten up to numbnuttery ... I am certain those at head office where not surprised .. but had to see how the most recent rorting and diving was going to manifest itself before taking action to counter it ..
Remember even the simple introduction of the 40/20 .. no biggee , simple ... but within weeks they had to impliment a rule that said the ballboy had to put the ball on the ground at the linesman's feet ... because teams were coaching their ballboys to throw the ball to their players on the run .. but to delay or have trouble finding a ball if it was the other team ..
Numbnuttery is as numbnuttery does
Never learn from our mistakes because of coaches
silvertails is just a snapshot of the footy industry but its not well recieved here. In fact, you , paul kent and vlandys seem to be the only people not concerned that i have seen
No insult intended @Woodsie
The game has to be better, more professional than it has been and this is not an improvement . Like ive said previously inventing 15 new grades of crusher tackle to partner the head high rule has only compounded the fallout. Both are not new to the game. Poor planning and implementation has had the NRL playing god in the eyes of many of its customers, duty of care or not
Every man and his dog is sick of crackdowns based on a lethargic application of the rules by the admin. A smarter NRL, more in touch with its own game would should have realised they needed amore tactical approach to all the rules not just concussion
Inventing new crusher tackles with 2 in the bin has been stupidly arrogant
Looking at the judicial outcomes it seems the players, fans and clubs were not the only ones caught out by the new old rules. Regardless of the good intentions the fact the whole NRL are not aligned and on the same page has shown how poorly this was handled. and that is the test
Next years 2 new rules , referees abandon whistles As the whistle has long been associated with sexist innuendo toward women. REFS will be using a recoder. any player who doesnt play to the recorder immediately will get 10 in the bin for making the ref repeat himself. No one needs the recorder to be repetitive. Des has already sumbitted a proposal that a penalty will go to the tune of 3 blind mice