Hybrid Game - Auggies v Keebra Park

[I like to watch]

Sounds like it has been designed specifically for a big dynamic Mungo team.
You can't kick it out of your 22 for territory,and you only get to keep the ball for 60 seconds.Keebra will dominate the tackle & slow the ball down, If Augs ever make it to 1/2 way they will be out of time.
The only way to beat a larger more powerful team is to control the ball, when playing rugby. they have taken that option away. it will be a massacre!
Does anyone have any idea as to the point of this game?

 

[Burke's Boot]

Hybrid Schoolboys Rugby game to be played at Brookie Oval - 7pm May 11th

http://manly-daily.whereilive.com.au/sport/story/hybrid-rugby-set-for-brookvale-debut/

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2011/04/13/307625_gold-coast-sport.html

St Augustine's, an ex-school of mine before Joeys, used to focus on both codes but now is exclusively Rugby and has even beat Joeys twice in the last two years i believe.

COMPLETE HYBRID RULES

The game is designed to enable a rugby union team to play a rugby league team in a game that suits both codes and is a blend of both codes.

1. There will be 13 players per side.

2. Start of play will be decided by a coin toss.

3. All starts and restarts of play from the halfway line will require a place kick which must travel at least 10 meters in a forwards direction.

4. While in possession a team will be required to play rugby league rules while exiting their end of the field. Once this attacking team crosses the halfway line, the game reverts to rugby union rules.

5. The referees will call the change of play (league to union) once the halfway line has been crossed. Union rules will continue even if the side in possession is driven back behind the halfway line, or the ball is passed backwards into this area.

6. The game will continue until there is a change in possession and the rules (league or union) will apply to the position on the field of the now attacking side.

7. The ball is not permitted to be kicked out on the full. If this occurs a penalty will result from where the ball was kicked out and the game restarted under rugby union rules.

8. Restarts of play using dropkicks from their team's own (defensive) end of the field must satisfy rugby union rules with regard to the minimum distance travelled by the drop-kicked ball.

9. The attacking side has 60 seconds to score or kick. This period will be monitored by a shot clock. Failure to score or kick in this time will result in a turn over of possession. The shot clock applies to both ends of the field and both codes. There will be no tackle count. This is a precise time frame and any points scored after the 60 seconds has elapsed will not be counted.

10. The shot clock will be reset for all penalties and restarts of play. Penalty kicks at goal are not included in the 60 second time frame.

11. There will be two referees on the field of play: one each from rugby league and rugby union.

12. Scrums will be contested rugby union style. The attacking side will have the loose head and feed and the ball is to be fed into the centre of the scrum.

13. Points are as follows: Try = 5 points; conversion and penalty goal = 2 points; field goal = 1 point.

PS. Ive put the club icon on the thread as i couldn't think of anything else appropriate and seeing we are talking about neanderthal Mungoes thought it may be pertinent.

 

[Bradley]

I question the success of rule 9. The attacking side has 60 seconds to score or kick. I think this will put too much pressure on teams to score and it will turn into a shit fight.

 

[Cutter]

I question the success of rule 9. The attacking side has 60 seconds to score or kick. I think this will put too much pressure on teams to score and it will turn into a shit fight.

Is that all you question?

 

[hench]

Union guys will always win these games.

Doesn't mean they are the better athletes.

 

[Joe Mac]

It seems to me that it is much more geared to a league team than union. The fact you only have 60 second of possession will mean it will be a contest between the backs to try and spin it wide and score a try instead of building momentum through phase play.

It would be interesting which players Augies use for the game, you would think there would be no need for tight 5 players on the field with no scrummaging or line-outs.

 

[MrTimms]

Am I the only one who thinks this is fucking stupid and a waste of time?

I just don't get the point.

 

[qwerty51]

It is fucking stupid. I don't see the point either. The game is going to be a farce based on all those rules.

 

[Zeno]

I'm more worried that someone is breeding these hybrid schoolboys.

 

[#1 Tah]

If this is what the future looks like, I wanna shoot myself now.

 

[Spewn]

If rule 9 is part of the future then I am with you. That sort of rule destroyed Scrabble. Boggle anyone?

 

[Joe Mac]

Even though I wholeheartedly agree that this idea is stupid, I am still going to go and watch it.

The only benefit i can think of is that hopefully JON will have the place teeming with scouts and we can poach some of the talent from Keebra before they are signed to NRL clubs.

 

[Burke's Boot]

Even though I wholeheartedly agree that this idea is stupid, I am still going to go and watch it.

The only benefit i can think of is that hopefully JON will have the place teeming with scouts and we can poach some of the talent from Keebra before they are signed to NRL clubs.

Im going to as its only 10mins north by car. The little Mungoes at 17-18 will be all connected to NRL sides by now though, at least the ones with a modicum of talent.

 

[RugbyReg]

Guys, anyone up to do a 'match report' afterwards I reckon it would be of considerable interest for the front page.

 

[Burke's Boot]

Guys, anyone up to do a 'match report' afterwards I reckon it would be of considerable interest for the front page.

I would give it a go if nobody else wants to, hell im sure i would be better at match analysis straight out of the box than Growden, who wouldn't, but Lee Grant lives in the area doesn't he?

 

[Spewn]

Just get rid of rule 9 and it's worth trying.

 

[wolverine]

Am I the only one who thinks this is fucking stupid and a waste of time?

I just don't get the point.

Its an opportunity to trial new rules and an expansive game philosophy, which could be beneficial to creating a more expansive game at higher levels. People could similarly question the merit of Barbarians games, which have been approached with a conservative coaching philosophy in recent years, served to tire out players, and seriously injure Wallabies like Matt Dunning and Sekope Kepu.

 

[qwerty51]

Its an opportunity to trial new rules and an expansive game philosophy, which could be beneficial to creating a more expansive game at higher levels. People could similarly question the merit of Barbarians games, which have been approached with a conservative coaching philosophy in recent years, served to tire out players, and seriously injure Wallabies like Matt Dunning and Sekope Kepu.

The game itself had nothing to do with their injuries, it was the surface.

 

[wolverine]

I question the success of rule 9. The attacking side has 60 seconds to score or kick. I think this will put too much pressure on teams to score and it will turn into a shit fight.

Agreed. If the RL side successfully slow down the PTB, or move up quickly in defence, they could stop St Augustine getting out of their half in the 60 seconds, forcing a kick. The RL team might advance quickly, but then be turned over in the opposition 50. In Rule 5, the RL team might be driven back and turned over well in their own half, then giving St Aug attacking opposition to recycle possession with close pick and drives, or mauls.

My concern is with Rule 4. It basically creates a game of RL in one's own half, and a game of RU in the opposition half. It creates a code of Rugby in each area of the field, rather than one unified set of rules.

 

[wolverine]

The game itself had nothing to do with their injuries, it was the surface.

If not for participating in that game, Dunning and Kepu would not have suffered those injuries on that day. One could question the merit of of that one-off game as much as this one-off game.