Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:08 pm  

PopTart wrote:

It wouldn't work in football. You could play for days and still be 0-0.
It works in rugby as you have more opportunity to score.

Correct wouldn't work in football and for doesn't work in our game either. A draw is normally a fair result and the game has Always been decided over 80 mins and in reality it is a gimmick to see who drops the first goal and nothing to do with scoring tries which the game is about.

Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Tue Nov 28, 2023 2:56 pm  

PopTart wrote:

It wouldn't work in football. You could play for days and still be 0-0.
It works in rugby as you have more opportunity to score.

Yeah, I was thinking more force a winner, they should go to penalties after full time.

Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Tue Nov 28, 2023 2:57 pm  

Trin e ti wrote:

Correct wouldn't work in football and for doesn't work in our game either. A draw is normally a fair result and the game has Always been decided over 80 mins and in reality it is a gimmick to see who drops the first goal and nothing to do with scoring tries which the game is about.

Exciting though, especially if watching as a neutral. Without golden point we wouldn't have beaten Wigan last year.

Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:12 pm  

18th Man wrote:

Exciting though, especially if watching as a neutral. Without golden point we wouldn't have beaten Wigan last year.

No, we would have drawn. A much more satisfactory result that the Golden Point lottery.

Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:22 pm  

18th Man wrote:

Exciting though, especially if watching as a neutral. Without golden point we wouldn't have beaten Wigan last year.

We wouldn't have lost at Salford and leigh either. Intact we could have easily been relegated on golden point

Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:37 pm  

Seem to remember reading somewhere,about a suggestion of 2 points for golden point winner and a 1 point consolation for loser, thus softening the blow.

Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Tue Nov 28, 2023 5:03 pm  

18th Man wrote:

I like the golden point, it adds a bit of drama. I actually think they should introduce it in football.

Are you from the USA?

Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Tue Nov 28, 2023 5:11 pm  

Slightly O/T but I see the Wendyball lot are looking at utilising the sin-bin... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67549886

Slightly O/T but I see the Wendyball lot are looking at utilising the sin-bin... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67549886

Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Fri Dec 01, 2023 1:26 pm  

Very funny yet informative pre luncheon speech from Ben Thaler at the club today . He was pointing out that next season when the fans are getting on the officials backs for the raft of penalties that will blight the game in the early rounds until the players get a grip on the rules ,is purely down to the RL’s insurance company pulling out after 40 years of association with our game ,and just one insurance company willing to take the game on out of a raft of 40 that were approached , it really does hit home how serious everyone needs to take the head knocks going forwards .

Re: Rule changes for 2024 : Fri Dec 01, 2023 1:55 pm  

Kettykat wrote:

Very funny yet informative pre luncheon speech from Ben Thaler at the club today . He was pointing out that next season when the fans are getting on the officials backs for the raft of penalties that will blight the game in the early rounds until the players get a grip on the rules ,is purely down to the RL’s insurance company pulling out after 40 years of association with our game ,and just one insurance company willing to take the game on out of a raft of 40 that were approached , it really does hit home how serious everyone needs to take the head knocks going forwards .

Well done Nick Fozzard, Bobby Goulding et al.