Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:57 pm  

Bans for foul play are actually tougher in the NRL than they are here. The rule changes will happen regardless.

Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:09 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

Bans for foul play are actually tougher in the NRL than they are here. The rule changes will happen regardless.

Are you saying the NRL are implementing the rule changes being trialed below SL level this year and then rolled out into SL for 2025? If they are it's news to me.

Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:40 pm  

ArthurClues wrote:

Are you saying the NRL are implementing the rule changes being trialed below SL level this year and then rolled out into SL for 2025? If they are it's news to me.

Nope, I'm saying bans for foul play are harsher than they are here. They also have the hip drop tackle crackdown as well.
I think the rule changes will happen regardless because the game can't afford the additional insurance, legal and medical costs that will be incurred if the rule changes aren't brought in.

Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:35 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

Nope, I'm saying bans for foul play are harsher than they are here. They also have the hip drop tackle crackdown as well.
I think the rule changes will happen regardless because the game can't afford the additional insurance, legal and medical costs that will be incurred if the rule changes aren't brought in.

But in the event that the NRL bought out the comp do you not think it likely that given their far deeper pockets, they would fork out the insurance (if that is the blocker) in the interests of having a unfied set of rules?

Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:28 pm  

ArthurClues wrote:

But in the event that the NRL bought out the comp do you not think it likely that given their far deeper pockets, they would fork out the insurance (if that is the blocker) in the interests of having a unfied set of rules?

That's possible in the short term, but with costs doubling or trippling every few years it's not something that will be postponed for long.

Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:59 pm  

Sending off at the Wire v Hull game beggars belief.

Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:15 pm  

ArthurClues wrote:

Sending off at the Wire v Hull game beggars belief.

Switched it off at that point Arthur. I'm not sure I can take the sport seriously any more.

Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:30 pm  

ArthurClues wrote:

Sending off at the Wire v Hull game beggars belief.

If that’s a red Donno should be expecting his life time ban in the post.

If that’s where we’re going we might as well give up now.

Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:01 pm  

Clearwing wrote:

Switched it off at that point Arthur. I'm not sure I can take the sport seriously any more.

Yep. I did the same.

Re: 2024 Rule Changes : Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:17 pm  

The game is in big big big trouble unless this madness is stopped. Jon Wilkin clip I’ve seen on social
Media is excellent. Spoken very well