During the regular season if teams can't be separated after 80 minutes then both teams deserve a point out of it. In finals football or Origin if teams were equal after 80 minutes I'd give them a further 10 mintues (5 minutes for each side going eachway) that would be played regardless of how many points were scored. Then and only then if teams were still equal I would use golden point.
This exact quote is entirely how I wish the games was played too. And FYI its how they do it in Superleague, where the clubs and coaches don't constantly "review" the rules with the aim of boosting ratings or covering for the shortfalls of the state of coaching and/or refereeing. (Although they have recently implemented it in the Challange Cup competion, and i'm not entirely sure on how they now decide drawn finals games, but they do allow for draws during the regular season.)
(VictoryFC addressed this as the reactionary nature of the NRL, which is entirely true. And the NRL should never have implemented golden point in the first place, let alone consider changing it to Golden Try)
And how can anyone consider a draw boring, it might not leave fans or players with the elated feeling of a win, but it is a fair result for two teams who proved to be just as good as eachother in 80 minutes of rugby league.
And if anything, the 5 minutes before fulltime where a team may be chasing a final score to force a draw, or win it with the conversion goal, or where both teams may be defending a draw, or gunning for the field goal to win it, I would say are far more exciting than having to put up with some absolutley abysmal attempts at field goals repeatedly in golden point, how is this situation even close to elite football?
And no, Golden Try is not the solution to this, as it is not a question of what the golden score is, but rather that winning by a single scoring play of any type and that ending the extra time portion of a game is entirely unfair. And you can't have one set of rules for 80 minutes and an entirely different set of rule with regards to scoring and penalties just for extra time.
Given that both teams were just as good as eachother for 80 minutes, and just like the 90 odd years before Golden Point, and the 115 years and counting in England, they both deserve a point after 80 minutes. And please, no one suggest a competition point each and an extra point for the the golden point winner, thats just silly and wrong.
(Raidersrawesome post was also a great point on the reality of the situation, however I would prefer the draw to Golden Point, but don't continually keep trying to change everything!)
I honestly just don't understand how the systems and rules rugby league has had in place for the past 115 years (for the most part) are just tossed aside at the mere suggestion of some truly stupid ideas (thinks of 11-a-side toyota cup games, golden point killing draws, and dominant/surrender killing voluntary tackle penalties, to name a few). Oh but wait, Australia just MUST do everything it possibly can to maximise channel 9's ratings, even thougfh they do a good enough job of degrading the Rugby League "product", even without the NRL constantly changing the rules of the game each and every year.