State of the Game survey

[Springs09]

Contested scrums are mostly shithouse and have nothing to add to modern rugby league.
Just watch 6 minutes of badly formed scrums ending in a penalty in the Union WC if you need convincing

Scrums are fine how they are.
They absolutely should not be abandoned.
They serve a valuable purpose of providing a set play scenario with a lesser defensive line.
Just because teams don't use it every play, or even most of the time, doesn't mean it should be removed. That's how you end up with a stale game of 5 dummy half runs and a kick.

The sport needs more scenarios with tactical variation to keep play evolving and attack and defences thinking, not less. Finding ones that suit the game and don't completely tip the balance, such as the 40-40, is the challenge.

Can you give some of this common sense to the large percentage of the league population who seem to want the game to turn into non-stop touch football-like garbage?

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Wait until you need 5 more points for a game total in a union game and watch 12 of the last 15 minutes of gametime packing and repacking scrums.

They suck, the possible 3 points for a penalty or if a side keeps stuffing it up 5m out from their own line a possible penalty try are benefits in that sport that arent available in league so you would just have a scrappy shitfest and a slight chance of seeing another player become paralysed live on tv.


Then there would also be the bellamy factor where any rule changes he and his think tank will twist and violate and basically have his way with to make sire there isnt a contest

 

[LeagueXIII]

Id run a trial match with:
no scrums, quick taps for turn overs or kicking into touch
no kicks for penalties, just quick taps with ref indicating six again rather than stopping play
quick restarts, no waiting around for the refs
2 men only in the tackle

see how the game flowed

What a repetitive boring game that would be..

 

[taste2taste]

A lot of people look back on scrums with rose colored glasses. They were an absolute mess, Vossy often runs a scrum package on his show highlighting why we got rid of them.

They need to keep scrums if only for the opportunity for teams to attack with the forwards out of the way.

The most important question in the survey was about wrestling, hopefully 100% people ticked YES its a blight on the game. Get rid of wrestling and the game opens up.

There are a few questions on the survey that TV will never let the NRL change, or if they did the NRL would have to be willing to take a big hit on the next TV deal.

What length should the season be ? The clubs and TV will never allow it be shorter so what's the point if asking ?

Should Golden point stay ? It rates too high to be changed.

Stand alone Origin weekends ? As awesome as stand alone rep weekends would be unfortunately origin on a Sunday doesn't rate as high as Wednesday.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

So the biggest problem in league is the state of the scrum?

If only.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

There wasnt a question asking of tries from kicks should still count

 

[TheFrog]

They serve a valuable purpose of providing a set play scenario with a lesser defensive line.

I've heard this argument before many times, but really I haven't noticed it all that much in practice.

 

[Legion]

Asking loaded questions to geniused fans.
Best case waste of time, worst case actually damaging if they act on it.

As if they give a flying f**k what the fans think. [not even the geniused ones]

 

[super_coach]

Maybe you have to pack the scrum by the number on your back. Instead of the first 6 people to the break down. Or even the practice now of stacking your backline with back rowers to defend a scrum feed by the other team..just a thought

 

[siv]

Prefer scrums being set up to 5m or 10m from the sideline rather than 20m in field