Good point, never thought of that angle, yeah its a bad idea.





Very true and the no stoppage in play is the bit that appeals.

apparently the kick and clap brigade are to trial something similar at next weekends east bedford oldiensians versus cambridge scholars victorious expundai clash
Both sides will call a halt to proceedings for 5 minutes,during which 2 big sack full of balls will be scattered randomly in front of both sets of posts and all 15 players from each side will take conversions or drop goals,all points will be counted on the final score too

The six-to-go rule is the best of the bunch on the face of it. It will never work though. Who decides if the penalty awarded is a 'six-to-go' penalty or whether a normal penalty is awarded? Does the coach chose, does the referee chose, does the captain chose?

When there's a set to on the field, the ref lets the action unfold and with every blow landed an extra ball is lobbed onto the pitch. When said balls are "live" and retrieved by a player they can then signal for a kicking tee brought on by remote control car and kick for goal. If 3 points are landed from this in a row the scoreboard will be used by the video ref to declare "tilt", "multiball frenzy" or "careful, stop nudging the machine" at his discresion.

what a joke there just takeing the pi$$ now

Don't let the RFL get a sniff of it FFS !

With the powerplay, assuming you are almost certain to concede a try during that period, why bother killing yourselves for 5 minutes trying to defend against the inevitable when you could just deliberately concede the try straight away and get your 2 players back on the pitch. Am I missing something?

You have a spark of an idea there.

What would be better though is if the remote control car could have a kicking tee mounted on top of it with a ball positioned ready for kicking - when an all-in biff starts the car would be sent out on the pitch to describe random circles around the fight, any player who can take a kick while the vehicle is in motion gets six points if he lands a goal.

I can see a 26 player biff suddenly breaking up into a frantic Benny Hill style chase around the pitch with lots of desperate air kicks and resulting hilarity, surely the BBC would be interested since they ditched Its A Knockout ?

I like the way your going with this. To add, if I may, all spectators are given a kazoo on entry to play the benny hill theme tune during the kerfuffle and said monies are put into a "jackpot" which the winning team can donate to the RFL's "keep Sam Tomkins in league" fund.

how about a really radical approach ?

let's play without a ball !

I used to do it with golf and played some superb shots !

It's 106 years since the game of rugby got it's greatest ever rule change - the reduction from 15 to 13-a-side.

It provided space for try-scoring to be the main emphasis of the game, unlike Union where the game has always been (and is increasingly so IMO) about kicking to win. Most of the rule changes since them have similarly been designed to make the game faster and more entertaining. This 'powerplay' concept though is just ridiculous. It's not as if we don't get high-scoring games in both the NRL and SL without having to force the issue any further.

What next - The 9-a-side Challenge Cup competition?

....and presumably the 4 Tackle Rule was also greeted with the same sort of derision.

they're

I've got some ideas:

"Multi-ball" - add two extra balls for 10 minutes (coaches call) - either side can use them so you have to attack and defend at the same time - awesome.

"20-20" - if you can kick a ball from inside your 20 out of play in the opponents 20 then defenders have to put on blindfolds for the next set of tackles.

"Dogging" - instead of a yellow card if a player delivers a high shot then he has to go sit in a 1992 Vauxhall Astra in the stadium car park until he's been relieved of his stress by a 55 year old married woman from Dagenham.

"Fat Lady" - instead of a hooter to end the game at 80 minutes a fat lady (nominated by winning a coin toss) has to follow a series of clues until she finds a song sheet. Once she finds the song sheet she then has to run on the pitch and sing it - thus ending the match.

I think there should be various pieces of fruit suspended 15 feet above the pitch, and if you dislodge enough of them with a rugby ball you get a series of rewards. 3 watermelons = extra life (next opposition try scores 0 points). 3 bananas = invincibility for 20 seconds, and so on.

Also, after 20 minutes the playing surface should change to rubble, 40 to ice, 60 to fire.