Wigan Warriors - wiganrugbyfans.com • Re: NRL scrap penalties for holding down
Egg Chasing wrote:
Agree with the reasoning definitely, and a penalty on the last tackle does my head in and we seem to cop it quite a bit.
There's just little bits I would want ironing out. Side makes a half break say, 1st or 2nd tackle (maybe from a kick) and you bring them down 60 out. Giving away a penalty under that system means a set of 6 which they have anyway 50 out. Under the current rules, that 60 out becomes 30 out. The only side that benefits there is the side you've penalised.
I agree, and don't think this proposal would achieve what it's intended to achieve.
But Jukes also makes a fair point; moving off the mark, and diving forward into the markers (or trapping their arms in the tackle ) is way too prevalent. But I'd rather counter that by the refs being stricter about 'milking' pens, as I believe they are in the NRL. warn them once, and make them go back and ptb properly, and if they do it again, penalise them
Statistics: Posted by moto748 — Fri May 15, 2020 2:24 pm