I think bring back 5 minute sin bin. Multiple infringements close together and someone sits. Might make refs more inclined to use it
Hasn't worked in the past, so what makes you think it will work now.
Besides the weak as piss public and media won't hold there nerve as shown before and whinge like a nagging wife(yes I love political incorrectness) about how the refs are ruining each game.
The only way anything like this would even remotely work would be to make it a hard rule that as soon as a team gave away 3 penalties(for anything) within a 20 minute window the bunker who is tracking and keeping time, informs the ref that the 10 min sin bin infringement has been initiated and the last penalized player must leave the field. Yes 10 mins, I don't feel 5 mins would be a big enough deterrent.
Then any new penalty that may occur by the same offending team, the player who committed it also has to leave the field and so on until that same team doesn't infringe for more then 20 minutes again.
This way it is taken out of the refs hands and it is a hard and fast rule. Players will not be inclined to give back to back penalties as we see happening now near the goal line in particular and they or the ref won't be to sure if the 20 mins have past.
We could even make it stricter if players are still not getting the message or refs are still to piss weak to blow the whistle and extend the infringement time out to 3 penalties within 30 mins or even a whole half. That way we are almost guaranteed a game of very few deliberate penalties and just as importantly stoppages in play.
But it needs to be a hard 3 successive penalties for anything. Not at the discretion of the referee. That way the rules are the rules and the team did it to themselves. Lets think about this for a second. This type of rule would suit a team like Parramatta more then almost any other team and over night transform us into title favourites. Why? Because notoriously we are one of the more weaker teams in executing the wrestle and generally a fairly clean team, but a very good team if we were allowed to play to the rules. Look at the way the Dragons played against us on the weekend, They would have been to scared to have played that way if these rules were in existence. Their coach could not have taken that risk and he would have had to play a cleaner game, which would have suited us not them.
We would become even less inclined to over play our ruck wrestling technique if a rule as harsh as this were to be introduced. On the other hand teams that flaunt the rules the most like the Storm? They could literally be hobbled if the ARLC and the refs made it their mission to clean up the game once and for all.
Coaches would be living in fear and that is the way it should be, not the game being held to ransom by the coaches as it always seems to be.
Hell I would even be inclined to bring in another supplement rule to the one above mentioned and make it so during any game if a team were to give away 3 ruck and/or off side penalties within their own 22 metres while defending, that the player that was last penalized be sent for 10 too. That way the coaches would be petrified and come down severely on any dumb arse that made such an offense.
If the NRL brought in these two harsh and hard rules that absolved the referee from making discretionary decisions on sin bins, the game would flow and be as quick as it is now. Coaches only coach the players in ways to bend and manipulate the rules because they can see a clear advantage in doing so. This would make any advantage virtually disappear and in fact make a faster game an advantage if they recruited for it over time.
Note: This sin bin rule would only apply to a team when defending or foul play. Accidental penalties, like accidental offside would not be counted.
