Neither beautiful nor busted, NRL must be comfortable in its own skin

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Analysis: Neither beautiful nor busted, NRL must be comfortable in its own skin | Roy Masters

That’s the likely conclusion reached when Rugby League Central completes its debriefs of the 2021 season with all NRL clubs, ahead of the ARLC making expected rule changes in December.The central problem is that coaches are gaming rule changes forced upon besieged administrators by broadcasters and concussion campaigners.

But Channel Nine was still unhappy and this precipitated the switch to one referee which was instantly followed by a six-again rule for ruck infringements.Credit:It was the blunder-into-it approach, akin to chimpanzees with laptops. If you hit enough keys, it might make sense. Coaches legitimately gamed this by replacing the injured player with one of four benchmen, usually a forward. When the injured player was cleared of concussion, he returned to the field, replacing - not the one who had substituted for him - but a third player who had been on the field from the start of the game.

It means they can reset their defensive line, race up and demoralise their opponents on their own line.Gregg Porteous/NRL PhotosThere have been reports some clubs want to return to the two-referee system, principally because they believe another referee is needed to adjudicate on a shrinking defensive corridor. But the second referee was originally brought in to stop wrestling in the ruck.

 

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