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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3641237, member: 9052"] I think it's almost too late to put the genie back in the bottle isnt it? Teams are happy to give away a 6 again in order to slow the ruck down... penalties just slow it down further. Teams are also happy to defend their own goal line on short drop outs... so they wont care about defending repeatedly off their line. What they actually need to do is officiate the ruck better... teams with the longest boot are winning field position and possession because yardage penalties are given so rarely that they're absolutely golden and game changing when they occur. It would be very interesting to see where the most 6 agains are given and the highest percentage of tackle number. I daresay it's inside the 20m (defending goal line) and on tackle 1-2. Refs are happy to give penalties in those situatuons, because they have a pretty low impact on the game... the game changers are yardage penalties and 6 agains late in the tackle count (even on your goal line). That's where the refs need to fix their shit up, because no team is fucking perfect but some refereeing suggests that they are at times. Back in the day if a team was falling behind a little bit of how's Trent resulted in a yardage penalty to give the team behind some hope... slowed the game down, time for a breather, time to setup your attack and give the team some field position... they've gone away from that but are letting teams get away with murder in the ruck. [/QUOTE]

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