If the ref thinks a tackled player is milking for a penalty then we need a rule whereby he can increase the tackle count by one. They would soon stop doing it then.

Sure, but that's not what you said.

i've said this for a while, ball carriers can get away with murder also in the ruck, it takes something really REALLY obvious or blatant for a ref to penalise them.

I like that idea.

Increase?

Or decrease? Or do you mean, the 'milking' player should hand the ball over, and their opponents get seven tackles?

I mean if the player in possession is deemed by the referee as trying to milk a penalty then the referee can "up" the amount of tackles completed for the attacking team. For example instead of it being tackle two the ref could increase it to the 3rd tackle because the attacking player was trying to get an unfair advantage, if this happened on the 5th tackle (as most do) then the referee could instruct the player to hand over the ball. Of course this is open to interpretation by the referee but then again so are a lot of the penalties that are given.

Yes, we agree, hatty, just wording; your "increase to the 3rd" is my "decrease the remaining tackles".

There would be no end of confusion if we were both reffing

Having now seen it in action, I'm not at all sure this rule would go down well over here, where many of us don't trust our referees. Yesterday's match was very fast indeed as a result, but the ref continually called six more without the viewers getting any kind of angle on what had happened, which put Brisbane massively under the cosh (though the Eels were by far the better team anyway). Looks like it could be massively open to abuse by a bent ref, but then, as someone else said, so is the ordinary penalty system, as we see every week.

The big issue for me has been having hardly any clue watching on tv that 6 more has been called. They could really do with coming up with some sort of graphic on the screen to highlight it. There’s times you may not quite hear the ref or if it was a longer term thing and it was brought in here, there may be times when you’re watching in pubs (remember them) with no sound and you’d have no clue as to why teams were going up to 7,8, 9+ tackles.

There's about three or four high pitched beeps sounded when the "reset" is called. If you've recorded the games have a listen.

Hadn’t noticed that, will give it a listen. Watched the game yesterday and a bit of one this morning but must’ve been half asleep.

Great to have some rugby league to watch anyway.

The score in the top left flashed it up too

I thought it worked really well tbh