Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Fri Dec 02, 2011 3:38 pm  

Cragganmore Kid wrote:

Awful, if true.

The 'powerplay' is a nonsense gimmick, and risks us looking more like a 'Gladiators' type novelty game than a serious sport. No, no, no, no, no.

My worry about the 20/40 is that it could encourage a lot of RU-like kicking for territory by the FB when fielding a kick and I'd rather see the ball kept in hand.

I could live with the 20/40 if I had to, but would hate for us to turn into gameshow with the introduction of 'powerplay'.

I agree fully, neither idea improves the game.

Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:07 pm  

Cragganmore Kid wrote:

Awful, if true.

The 'powerplay' is a nonsense gimmick, and risks us looking more like a 'Gladiators' type novelty game than a serious sport. No, no, no, no, no.

My worry about the 20/40 is that it could encourage a lot of RU-like kicking for territory by the FB when fielding a kick and I'd rather see the ball kept in hand.

I could live with the 20/40 if I had to, but would hate for us to turn into gameshow with the introduction of 'powerplay'.

I agree!

The power play is just utter stupid.

The 20/40 will just encourage teams to kick more and we will end up with a rugby union style game.

Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:43 pm  

I suppose the argument for the 20:40 could be that the team without the ball may have to drop the wingers back early to cover the kick.

An attacking team with pace in it's backs could use that space to attack from deep. As usual just a point to promote discussion.

Personally I don't see much merit in either proposal, but you know me I'm always open to reasoned debate.

Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:10 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I suppose the argument for the 20:40 could be that the team without the ball may have to drop the wingers back early to cover the kick.

An attacking team with pace in it's backs could use that space to attack from deep. As usual just a point to promote discussion.

Personally I don't see much merit in either proposal, but you know me I'm always open to reasoned debate.

It possibly is the intention, but equally it could lead to fullback tennis.

I love to see a team try to escape from their own 10 with well crafted RL, if it ain't broke...

Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:17 pm  

Cragganmore Kid wrote:

It possibly is the intention, but equally it could lead to fullback tennis.

I love to see a team try to escape from their own 10 with well crafted RL, if it ain't broke...

It could work if we had 6, 7 and 9 with vision and could pass a ball accurately. The Aussies will love it.

Just look at the Golden Boot results.

Over here forget it.

Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:45 pm  

The Chief wrote:

The Aussies are trialling a couple of new rules in the upcoming All Stars game. I like the 20/40 rule, could have some mileage:

The All Stars game will feature an innovative "power play", in which each captain can nominate a five-minute period in both halves, where the opposing side must drop two players.

The defending team will nominate which of their players must leave the field and if the team that has called the power play scores a try in that five minute period, the power play will end immediately.

The two teams cannot call a power play simultaneously.






POWER PLAY ? Quite a stupid idea I thought the 6 tackle rule was introduced to even the game up, that should be the only advantage any team should have. Trust the Cons to try and alter the game again. 20/40s. In full agreement with that

In another innovation, infringements in the ruck area will lead to an immediate restart of the tackle count, as opposed to a kick for touch.

The 40-20 rule has been expanded to include 20-40 kicks in play.

Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:08 am  

O... M... F... G....... Why don't we just go the whole hog and make the players all play with giant foam rubber feet and clown costumes on? We could make them play with a wet fish instead of a ball as well for even more comedy value. How about installing hidden trip-wires at random locations on the pitch - that'd be hilarious too... Rugby League is inately the most entertaining spectacle there is in sport - why the **** do the jerks who run it insist on constantly trying to denigrate it and make it into a laughing stock with this kind of nonsense? We desperately need rule changes to encourage creative half and back play and penalise one-out forward barging. We do not in any way shape or form need "It's a Knockout" segments instead. Where the hell are the heads of the guys who run RL anyway? Not in the real world that's for sure...

Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Sat Dec 03, 2011 8:50 am  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

O... M... F... G....... Why don't we just go the whole hog and make the players all play with giant foam rubber feet and clown costumes on? We could make them play with a wet fish instead of a ball as well for even more comedy value. How about installing hidden trip-wires at random locations on the pitch - that'd be hilarious too... Rugby League is inately the most entertaining spectacle there is in sport - why the **** do the jerks who run it insist on constantly trying to denigrate it and make it into a laughing stock with this kind of nonsense? We desperately need rule changes to encourage creative half and back play and penalise one-out forward barging. We do not in any way shape or form need "It's a Knockout" segments instead. Where the hell are the heads of the guys who run RL anyway? Not in the real world that's for sure...

Why do we need to take forward play out the game? It's part and parcel of rugby league and sometimes the battle of teams that use forward play against teams that play with their backs is great to watch.

They should just leave the game as it is!

Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:14 pm  

This game is often used to trial things, does not mean they will be adopted.

It's a safe way to test new rules at a elite level without it having to be done in a game that means anything

Re: Power Play & 20/40 : Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:22 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

This game is often used to trial things, does not mean they will be adopted.

It's a safe way to test new rules at a elite level without it having to be done in a game that means anything

For this powerplay idea to have got as far as being trialled in a match is an absolute abomination. Whoever suggested it should have been laughed out of the boardroom and forced to wear a dunce hat for the rest of the week.