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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2090824, member: 1764"] Can't argue with that. But it's the same mentality. Twisting the rules against the spirit of the game to gain an advantage. I don't know what the solution is. In Super League they tried to enforce the rulebook, which says as soon as the tackle is complete you must release the tackled player. Result was ridiculous touch football like play the balls and the birth of the Broncos' power game, where you'd just rumble your big men forward ruck after ruck until the defence was so buggered from running backwards you just swung the ball to Renouf, Smith, Lockyer or Sailor to score inevitable tries. What we're getting now with surrenders and dominants is the ability for teams like the Storm to incorporate wrestling tactics to make it that much slower to further help their defence get set. What I also hate is that the old classical league tackle around the legs is, in the modern game, a liability, because it allows a quick play the ball and if you hang on to the leg for a split second too long you get called for a leg pull. Yet you can stack on their body with 3 blokes and take an age to untangle yourself and nothing happens. I simply hate the ruck at the moment. Hate it. [/QUOTE]

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