Mongrol Gone From the Game - Artie

[ngap]

Artie Beetson tells the truth when he says there is little contest for the ball anymore because of all the rule changes

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1264&storyid=1090022

 

[Anonymous]

From Artie:

"...in the old days you used to have a contest in the scrums, the play the ball was a two-man scrum and you had blokes playing the ball forward to score tries."

I agree 100%
My bugbear is the role of the marker who should be allowed to contest the ball and rake it. I still expect to see a rake back everytime there's a sloppy play-the-ball. Makes the game more unpredictable.

 

[The Original Eye]

Spot on.

Today's rules satisfy the simple minded.

 

[DIEHARD]

Then why can't the British even grasp them? :lol:

 

[Southernsaint]

I'm all for contesting the ball at the scrum & play-the-ball as long as it doesn't turn into Rah-Rah with the technical penalties & stoppages...

We've already got AFL lovers like Tony 110% Squires saying that our sport is "stop-start" as it is...

Cheers,
Ben S.

 

[tdcockers]

They've made changes to compensate for bad refereeing

i shudder to think how we would be going now if the refs have it easier now than they used to...

 

[CouldaBeenAnything]

raking in play the ball should never have been removed. As for scrums, only there so backs have some room to move...but never gets used anyways. Only used so 9 can throw to a break

 

[RLS]

The rules now are better than they used to be, scrums were always horrible and usually ended in a penalty, and raking the ball back breaks the continuity of the game, by not allowing it, it allows the attacking team to put pressure on in the oppositions territory, and if your team is able to hold them out with good defence it really builds to the atmosphere, it opens the game more.