glee wrote:The rule that decides how a game is restarted after a try has been scored needs to be changed. Surely no one who either played in this game or paid to watch it can hardly have enjoyed it. The rule that says that the team who has conceded a try has to restart the game by basically giving possession back to the team who have just scored that try is wrong.
A much better way is to restart the game by the team who have just conceded the try restarting the game with a tap on the half way line. That is how they do it in soccer. If that rule had been in operation in this particular game, without doubt Oldham would still have won but it would have been a better spectacle and event for all concerned.
It's not kids rugby where imbalances of sides has to be catered for with rule changes. You'll be advocating the "sympathy win" next, to ensure that no side concedes more than 50 points.
Such blow out score lines do suggest that there is too much of an imbalance between some of the competing clubs and perhaps the top sides should move into and expanded Championship or, the poorer sides drop into the conference ?
I do agree that there is little spectacle in watching any side concede so many points in a game and we would all prefer to see a "contest".