Exactly, in the last yawnyawn WC final SA fielded 14 rugby players and a kicker who took no part in running with the ball or tackling. It was so obvious the yawnyawn commentators mentioned it.

14 - That's damn sight more than most yawnion games I see.

For numbers of kicked penalties have a look at the last Super14 final.
Eighty minutes of my life I wil never get back.

It's not like you weren't warned.

some good points but i think the real reason is that there is a specialist kicker in RU who is in the team to do just that and not much else a la American Football.

I bet there are kickers of equal or better standard in RL but due to other deficiencies in their game, these far outweight the ability to kick goals



......e.g. Deacon...

Morne Steyn - the guy who kicked the winning penalty against the B&I Lions has just missed a conversion from under the posts 10m out against Australia.