This is a crucial game because it's our first game against a team in "our half" of the league. If we lose this, you start to wonder if our season will be decided by the two Leigh games and points difference, one of those games being the next to last round.

100% Agree KK.
This just brings another poxy rule, which is massively open to the interpretation of the ref.
Everything else has been brought in to speed the game up and this rule just allows the wrestle to go on for longer.

What on earth was wrong with the rule prior to the change

Looks an impossible rule to ref and open to all sorts of abuse , the sooner it’s gone the better for me . On the same note I haven’t missed the scrums one bit as when they took away the chance to strike for the ball it ended up a farce and laughing stock of the game ,personally hope it doesn’t come back .

Agreed, it is a really bad rule change that is unfathomable and id go further than say it brings nothing, it actively spoils the game. Bonkers

Amazing what happens when you get your best players back and fit