Omar Comin'
Chilla Wilson (44)
Ok Ok, I from the school ,I love my rugby like it is, so if it ain't broken, don't f******* fix it! I agree it great watching NRC where everyone throws ball around and defence is secondary, but hell ITM cup has plenty of open rugby under existing laws!!
You'll get great games under any point system - especially if NZ teams are involved. But what it does is eliminate the types of games where the ball stays almost entirely between the 22's, there's close to 0 try scoring opportunities and there's 12 attempts at penalty goal in the match taking up 20 minutes of game time. That's an extreme example but I hope you get what I mean.
Under the new points system you can still play the game in all sorts of ways. You could play 10 man rugby very effectively for example. But the difference is you can't just rely on getting in the opposition half and forcing penalties to win games. You need to become better at getting the ball over the line to win. I think that's the biggest difference and it creates a change in mentality that makes the game more consistently entertaining. It incentivises a bit more risk taking too, which I think makes for better games.