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Exactly.

It DOES fix a real issue - the stoppage and restart for penalty goals with games being decided too often on the weight of 3 pointers. It becomes a dour kick fest based on infringement. And how does this simplify the game at all? There is actually not a single rule change. It will mean more...

Is ON85 an informant for Stratfor as well? The school scholarship version of CN65....

They don't reflect the game as a spectacle? 64% reduction in stoppages for penalty kicks at goal. Those kicks were obviously being made for touch to get a lineout deep in opposition territory or close to the line with the intention of going for a try. How is that NOT a better spectacle? You...

Assuming this is accurate, and I see no reason to doubt it, and admitting that it is a small sample size - Tries scored 2011: 39 2012: 50 28.2% increase This is statistically significant Penalties in game 2011: 183 2012: 193 5.5% increase No significant increase in penalties. Penalty...

I just get that "i can't look" feeling and wince like someone is poking me whenever I see video of him even going into that hop-skip-jink thing he used to do. Like seeing pictures of Drew with his foot pointing the wrong way or those gazillion vids and pics online of sporting injuries. Hard to...

I searched and did not find a thread on this. http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/cooper-gets-kick-out-of-comeback-talk-after-giving-injury-the-boot-20120222-1to9q.html I hope all that is right. I have never had a knee injury like this or this type of surgery - what's the...

Cooper will never be the same player again. That knee, the way it went, it's gonna haunt him and it will get re-injured sooner rather than later.

Already agreed that dropping the points probably isn't the best idea, but the whole point of this thread is HOW you stop the rule infringements. What can be a disincentive without breaking the run of play so much? There will always be shots at goal from penalties, and that's fine, but it...

The two examples you mention might have been more thrilling because you had a dog in the fight AND they were high stakes international games played once every four years at the Rugby World Cup. The same pressure, prestige and consequences are absent from the average regular season Super Rugby...

Sometimes less tries get scored because the defence is brilliant. That's fine. In high stakes games this can build the tension too. What is not good is the attacking team being constantly stopped from attacking because of rule infringements by the defending team resulting in play stopping for a...

I don't mind a few, but I don't go to the Rugby to watch a bunch of place kicking that follows on from play stoppages that are caused by rule infractions.

I was postulating (and it was just putting it out there for discussion) that possibly the threat of sin-binning would reduce the infringements at the breakdown because with just a three-pointer at stake the risk reward ration is one thing, but with potentially playing a man down in the mix after...

Maybe the Dunedin or Otago Council (don't know how its set up) could bail them out with some funding from a communities based grant scheme with some help from other arms of government? There is often funding from Government available for the operation of sporting clubs and associations because...

Reducing the opportunity to bog games down with penalty kicks is hardly going to suddenly make Union into League or change the characteristics of the game. It'll hopefully punish infractions at the breakdown and scrum in a way that makes them less common and permits the game to keep flowing...

OK - so the ORFU is like the QRU? Its not a Club (check), but the QRU and the REDS are not in a similar arrangement to the Highlanders and the ORFU. Clear as mud. How does this impact the Clubs and Rugby in NZ? This still isn't very clear. And maybe the ORFU can come out of liquidation and...

ok fine. Forget that bit.

Not trying to change the essence of the game, but sacking the halfback sounds like fun! I don't think we should let a bunch of League thinking influence us unduly, but inspiration comes from whence it comes and discouraging infringements at the breakdown using something other than 3 point...

So what does this mean for Rugby in NZ really? And why have they folded? Is it just bad management? It seems hard to understand how a 126 year old club folds in a country as Rugby mad as NZ.

So am I the only one that thinks there are too many penalties at the breakdown and scrum and that having too many penalty kicks at goal is NOT a good thing for the game? Forget about the fact it's early in the season and the number of penalty kicks was 80. I mean just normally. Some games seem...