I don’t get the way they police the ruck now. If you get three in a tackle and stacks on like the dragons did yesterday you get rewarded because the ref gives you more time to clear. If you tackle with one or two, the ref expects a faster clearance and penalises when it doesn’t happen. It shouldn’t matter. After “held” there should be reasonably consistent amount of time to clear the ruck. Because isn’t the point of set restarts to speed up the play the ball. Or atleast stop it being slowed down.
Yesterday you could hear the ref say “all off together”, but it often didn’t happen, they did the one by one peel. and there was no penalty.
And why is it fine for the defender to hang on to the attacker well after held when they’re both standing, which happens to Wade and woods all the time, yet it’s a problem if they’re both on the ground. Defenders holding on to the upper body of the attacker when they standing and trying to bend over and play the ball is rarely penalised. I don’t get it.
