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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3452271, member: 8215"] Just referee according to the rules. No leniency/tolerance or grey areas. The ruck is a total mess because of this bullshit. When "held" is called, the ball carrier needs to be free to stand up and play it immediately. If defenders are twisted up and/or on top, if they can't get off immediately it's a penalty. That would stop 90% of the wrestle as it would be counter-productive to get all mangled up to slow it down. The most effective tackles will be ones where you can put the player down on the ground and be able to release immediately and get to marker. Conversely, the play-the ball needs to be clean. Player has to get to their feet, put the ball down on the mark (not in front or to the side to take the markers out of play), the ball is planted, not rolled, or it's deemed a loss of control (same rule as a knock on). Ball is rolled back with foot. Person playing the ball can not hold or interfere with the markers, just as defenders are currently not allowed to push or interfere with whoever is playing the ball. This would stop all the tunnel-ball, playing off the mark, interfering with markers, etc. In turn, defensive line can not move off the line until the ball has cleared the ruck, which is commonly accepted as when the player playing the ball touches it with their foot. All of these things being stripped back to the original rules means that it is all enforcable and as clear cut as any other rule. Eg, there is zero tolerance on being on-side on kicks, so if you are even slighly in front, you're off-side. So if you move off the defensive line even a fraction of a second before the player touches the ball with his foot in the PTB, it's off-side. If you don't put the ball down exactly on the spot, or don't plant it firm (no rolling), or don't roll it with foot, penalty. No grey areas means no ways to exploit "interpretations" or "tolerances". [/QUOTE]

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