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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3264522, member: 1899"] We can all agree that the way it was introduced was a farce and right now it appears to be the straw that broke the camel's back. They brought in this six again on short notice and the majority of teams are still struggling to adapt to that and now they've introduced another rule that punishes teams heavily. I do think we're going to see the NRL ease up on it. For whatever reason they chose Magic Round to make a statement and as a result there were a couple of line-ball decisions that were punished far too heavily and there were a couple like the Felise Kaufusi tackle on Corey Norman that should have been penalised. I think eventually you'll see a more common sense approach and ultimately it will be something a lot of fans have wanted for awhile. How often have we as fans complained about a player committing an awful tackle and serving a six week suspension only to receive next to no compensation? At least now they've drawn a line in the sand and a tackle like a Paul Momirovski's will result in a 10 minute sin bin. I like the suggestion that a legs tackle should result in a dominant call. This again goes back to the heart of the issue where players and fans would have been more responsive towards the rules had there been some care and consideration put forward instead of it being dumped on the players a few days out from what should have been a show piece round of the competition. So tackles like the Papalii, Ese'ese, Fuimaono etc. will all be punished and that's fair enough. However hopefully we see less incidents like the Tevita Pangai Jr, Chad Townsend and Lachlan Burr which really put a dampener on all of those contests. [/QUOTE]

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