Quote: The_Enforcer "I wish they would slacken off their policing of the ruck to be honest. It isnt working and is just allowing players to exploit it by diving without a hand on them and purposely playing the ball into players who have not been able to get out of the way. If you watch the older games from the early 90s, the rucks where slower and messier but the game was more fun to watch because you didnt have the ref blowing every couple of minutes.
Maybe if the players stopped wasting so much energy and effort trying to con a penalty, they would actually have more energy to play the game to a higher standard'"
I don't know that "slacken off policing" is quite the term I'd use, but I do think players should be made to play the ball properly. The current situation is biased way too much in favour of the team in possession for me. Players are allowed to walk off the mark, play the ball before they have properly got to their feet, step forward into the markers, etc etc. And that's without mentioning dummy-halves throwing the ball at defenders on the floor. All these offences are very seldom penalised.
