Not going to bemoan the RFL for the advantage rule as can see what they were trying to do, but just don't think it works when you got to take the ball back 50m when it doesn't work out which is more often than not.

Whoever came up with the dead ball rule wants demoting. Shocking rule!!!

A lot of the hacks forward have just been lazy rubbish efforts though and I don't see the point......why give the oppostion time to organised their defence from the ref blowing up and having to restart? Surely take a tackle and try to get in a quick PTB before they're properly set in defence.

Not a fan of the making the ball dead.

I can see what they were trying to do, by saying if a kick has stopped then it can't be made dead. However there was a kick in the Saints Wire match last week. The ball was slowing so much that the next bounce would have been close to stopping the ball entirely. (who knows it is a Rugby ball after all).

It was a great kick nulified by making it dead as it was still moving backwards ever so slightly.

The advantage rule is a good idea, but the ball needs to really get to a halfbacks hands to get anything decent out of it. Ratchford seamed to have his head on, when he got the ball. But too many times it ends up with a prop who just runs it in anyway. I would not change it back as it does add a creative element. If they hack it down field it's only going to take a few seconds, it can take that long for a scrum anyway.

i quite like the advantage rule asmakes for an exciting play but thought that the rule they trialled where chargedowns dont wipe the tackle count would have been better and made sense

Like others, I can see the point of the new advantage interpretation - and I like it too!

The going back down the pitch to form a scrum at the point of the original infringement can look a bit odd but, in a [isome[/i cases, that will be a good indicator of how hard a team has tried to take their advantage (and hopefully provided some additional excitement through the change in pace).

I'd adjust the rule so that if the ref needs to go back to the original infringement, the scrum is formed at the place where the team taking advantage last had possession of the ball. So it might be at the point the ball was kicked away, because a defender got to the ball first. Or it would be the last place they had ball in hand.