I personally think the two 8 point tries we saw in the Warrington game set a dangerous precedent especially with the one on Dufty by Watkins.

If this is how it's going to be done in 2023, we are going to go from a 8 point try being as rare as hens' teeth to seeing them every week and I'm not sure it's warranted or what I want to see.

People are overreacting to this.

It took till thr 7th televised game and 13th game in total for this to kick in, its not like its happening in every game from the first one.

it should be only if deliberate foul play , not in the Watkins incident

The problem is that what is often classified now as deliberate foul play is a world away from the foul play we all knew and recognised 20 years ago.

The much stiffer attitude the judiciary have taken in the 21st century has massively reduced the nonsensical violence that some players specialised in back during 'the good old days', but it could be argued that they're now going too far.

Contact with anything above the shoulder is an automatic penalty, whether it was intended or not. A collision with a kicker after the ball has left his boot can easily result in a yellow card, even though it's often the tackler's momentum that causes the collision.

Overreactions like that are ruining the spectacle of RL as an aggressive contact sport.

If the awarding of 8-point tries becomes a regular thing in 2023, it will be yet another step in that direction. Though as I've already said, I suspect it will be another fad, which they'll have forgotten about by April.

Having now seen TSLS, I agree with the consensus: first one, maybe fair enough, Watkins one was a joke.