All credit to Walsmlsy quick thinking, but why has the interpretation of a tap changed? If you go back quiet a few years the ball had to be played along the ground (all be a millimetre or so) then picked up this also applied to tap restarts. My point being is that there was a risk involved especially on a wet muddy pitch. Now the game is so fast defences struggle to get set without attackers allowed to take shortcuts.

I guess the problem is now - does a quick tap then become a much more effective attacking opportunity than a set restart - if the former can taken advantage of a broken defensive line, whilst the latter can't (usually) ? In which case should the set restart go, and quick taps be universally allowed instead ?

I know it would complicate things but things like holding down or anything to slow the play the ball should be a set restart anything like a flop or ballsteal penalty with a quick tap option.

I thought it was strange to see such a quick tap was walmsley not asking Thaler cam I tap it and he nodded ?

I don't know whether that used to be a rule, but it certainly hasn't been for at least the last two decades. I don't see what it would add to the game if it were bought back either, other than the odd embarrassing knock on as mentioned earlier.

It would introduce the element of risk against reward. Maybe we should revisit rules that were the norm years ago as they were made for a reason in the first place.

yeah ok, like the try wigan got away with at BV when the play the ball was 10 metres from where it should of taken place and still given