"You don't need to throw a punch to go to the bin"

[Perth Red]

Be interested to know if more mums allow their kids to play now they have banned the punch. After all that was the main reason it was brought in. I suspect not!

 

[blaza88z]

Mum: "have they banned that bloody punching from Rugby League yet?"

Dad: "yeah they have, love"

Mum: "oh great! Johnny can go play in the under 7's now!"

 

[Meth]

http://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/...NRL-should-let-players-punch-each-other-again

Pretty bizarre reading this today.

 

[betcats]

JWH is a flat track bully who got put on the bitch by thirdman.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Webster is right. The NRL has lost control of the rules of the game, or more to the point the way it is refereed. Their mindless and reactionary approach and the ridiculous way referees are coached have combined to create inconsistency and, worst of all, the embarrassing handbags we see in every game that rugby league people have been laughing at in VFL for years. What will be done about it? Nothing. The clowns who run the game only react to hysteria in a PR friendly way. No hysteria, no PR spin, no chance of change. And by PR I don't even really mean public relations, because the rugby league public don't get a say. It's people who will never, ever like or take a real interest in rugby league these morons pander to. Makes sense eh?

 

[DiegoNT]

I hate the line 'it's not a good look for the mothers watching the game'. Who's mothers are they talking about? My mother loves the rough stuff , its why she signed me and my siblings up for league when we were younger and it's why she's signing her grand kids up for league. None of the female nrl fans i know (some with kids, some without) have a problem with the occasional bit of biff.
Rules like the punch ban are made with soccer mums in mind, but the nrl are forgetting about the many league mums out there

 

[Meth]

Yeah I do find the 'mothers and their kids' argument a bit weak. Rugby League was fine before we started sin binning blokes for a punch.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

But we've always binned blokes for fighting. Even sent them off. Even suspended them in some cases.

But what we have now is a ridiculous mandatory rule that says a player MUST be binned and MUST be charged. It's the kind of rule you get when the people making the rules have NFI about the game.

 

[DiegoNT]

But we've always binned blokes for fighting. Even sent them off. Even suspended them in some cases.

But what we have now is a ridiculous mandatory rule that says a player MUST be binned and MUST be charged. It's the kind of rule you get when the people making the rules have NFI about the game.

That's exactly right, fighting was never allowed, but the ref could use his discretion on whether they went for 10 or not. Maybe if jwh and thaiday traded punches they would of went to the bin, maybe not but it would of stopped the farce of the many 'handbag throwing clashes' that spoilt an otherwise great game

 

[Meth]

If the aim of the mandatory sin binning rule was to eliminate any and all punches from the game, it's been a success.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

No. The aim of the rule was to react to one incident in an origin game in the quickest and most PR friendly way possible regardless of how it might impact the game. That's the NRL's MO.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Quick question:

When is the last time a player threw a punch on the field??

 

[East Coast Tiger]

In the NRL, Jack Wighton. And the mug he hit deserved it too.

 

[Wheeled Warrior]

I hate both players with a passion for separate reasons. However JWH was a big cry baby and I hope he never dons our beloved Black&White Jersey the Kiwi's ever again

 

[TheVelourFog]

Am yet to hear a good reason why anyone wants to see a bloke punch another bloke in the face while playing team sport.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Then you're not listening.

 

[betcats]

Am yet to hear a good reason why anyone wants to see a bloke punch another bloke in the face while playing team sport.

Id rather see Thaiday and JWH punching instead of kisssing.

 

[BennyV]

If the aim of the mandatory sin binning rule was to eliminate any and all punches from the game, it's been a success.

As the article states, this has created a number of other issues.

 

[Usain Bolt]

There's boxing and MMA if you wanna see punches being thrown.

 

[TheVelourFog]

Then you're not listening.

"Embarrassing niggle and push and shove"

that about sum it up?

about 30 seconds worth in an 80 minute game

use the time to go take a piss