NRL is completely blind. If they choose to implement the rule proper of kicking in to touch awards a 7-tackle set, that is utter stupidity. And if they say it is to speed up the game, bring in more fatigue or whatever other nonsense they want to dribble, how about this for an idea. Stop the clock when the ball is not in play. Ball kicked into touch, clock stops, old mate lining up a penalty, conversion, clock stops. As soon as a try is score, clock stops.
This makes the players play the full 80 and that will bring fatigue into it. Look at the NHL, (p)uck (it won't let me say the actual word, it is censored...right...) not in play the clock is stopped and if they don't stop it in time they put that time back on the clock to ensure the full game is in play.
If they really wanted to change any rule, one I think is absolutely stupid is, say, at kick-off the ball is going to land in the field of play but the bloke catching it has his foot in touch or over the deadball line, it is a pin-point kick and if a kicker can kick it with such precision, bloody good on him. The block catching it has taken the ball dead, not the kicker. Utter stupidity.
