100% agree with the 7 tackle set. it's so fucked. Personally I think there should be no punishment on the attacking side for kicking dead/kick caught in-goal. But if they insist, they could either have the defence back 15 on the tap or move the tap to 25m. As for ties, I'm happy for GP to stand throughout the season. However, all finals and Origins should be 5min each way then GP.
Golden try I reckon. Be heaps more entertaining than them getting all gayFL on us with field goal attempts.
Leave golden point the way it is but fuck off the extra punishment for a ball going dead from a kick.
I actually like the extra punishment. Makes teams think twice before just launching a shot under extreme pressure/from any distance.
I like the 7 tackle set for catches in the goal as it makes teams think twice before just bombing away. I think there needs to be a rule in place that drop kicks only result in a 6 tackle set if they go dead. If a drop kick's caught on the full in the in-goal it's 7 though. Would stop a player perfecting the cross field drop kick.
And cause you know, trying to win a game with a long range field goal now that really deserves double punishment as opposed to doing what the Broncos did in the last 20 minutes i.e. just drilling it out set after set. There has been a decline in long range shots though. And laughably it's because the back and forth, drop goal shot for drop goal shot occurs more often thanks to 7 tackles almost guarantees getting in good range.
As if fullbacks and wingers needed more of a leg up. It's harder to build pressure on teams now than it ever has been since that awful one foot over the dead ball line nonsense.
I hate the idea of golden try even more than I hate the idea of Golden point. A field goal can win it for you at the 80th minute, but can't in the 82nd. I'd definitely piss the 7 tackle set off too.
Says the bloke who contributed to the off-topic discussion. If you aren't trolling, you're one of the most nauseating people on here. You support this absurd rule and you really don't have a single convincing argument. There's absolutely no sense of proportion. Kicking the ball dead is, aside from sin bins, send offs and penalty tries, which almost entirely consist of foul play, now the most harshly punished occurrence in RL. It's a joke.
It's a bit ironic really that Thurston won the CC medal when he didn't deserve it, yet didn't get it in 05 when he absolutely did. All evens out I guess in a weird way.
I can only remember 2 or 3 things from the game. But I recall thinking Milford or Granville were awesome.
Didn't actually see it. I sat down as soon as Hunt dropped the ball, didn't watch it. Didn't cry, was quite shattered though.
Oh well. There's always next year. I know what it feels like to lose grand finals. Sat through 2 of them.
