Quote: Beverley red "The rules as written are fine just apply them all'"
This is pretty much the answer to most niggles with RL - the problem we have is that officials seem to be adapting and evolving the rules on the fly - in pursuit of a faster and faster game - and that leaves coaches and players with the leeway to also adapt and evolve how they'll exploit them.
This relatively new and easily exploitable purge on tacklers in the ruck is just the latest example - of the matches I saw at the weekend, I'd say that more than half the penalties awarded for that offence were unnecessary and involved some form of cheating by the attacking player; it's not a good look for the game.