Why rugby can be boring

Discussion in 'Rugby Union Discussion' started by Jabba, Apr 15, 2014.

  1. Jabba HJ Bots

    Yeah that's the sport which came to mind if you want to make it more free flowing
     
  2. Notsure SM Green

    Definitely the mauls! Incorrect entry by the attacking team is hardly ever enforced while all number of conditions are put on the defensive side.
     
  3. Benny BS Read

    Invisible imaginary gates at the Ruck. Uuuuuuuurerrrrrggghh. Shittest rule.
     
  4. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    Good call.

    Reminds me of other bizarre rules like the "A" defender.
     
  5. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    These aren't boring rules but just rules I would like to see changed

    1) Offside rule - you must be on your side of the advantage line. This will stop people from
    a) randomly running up and just standing in the middle of the opposition back line to prevent the ball from being spun out wide
    b) retreating players dawdling around amongst the opposition players to disrupt them from spinning it out wide.

    3 points for a drop goal - should be 1 point. A player will come along one day who will kick them from anywhere and the game will get very boring very quickly.

    Regarding scrums - I endorse one of Jabbas proposals that if the ball comes out of the back of the scrum then who cares that the front row has fallen over. Play on.
     
  6. Weeman27bob BE Force

    If anything penalties should be reduced in value.

    a) Drop goals are more exciting than penalties.
    b) Drop goals are harder than penalties.

    I really fail to see what people's issues are with drop goals? The issue you've suggested is hypothetical, as opposed to penalties where there are people who kick them from pretty much anywhere in the opponents half and it already is boring.

    It's not like drop goals are a problem at the moment. There's definitely more games where one isn't scored than one is scored and scoring more than one in a game is even rarer.
     
  7. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    I love drop goals in the last ten minutes of the game to win it. not so much in the 15th minute of the game because the fly half wanted to tick the scoreboard over.
     
  8. Weeman27bob BE Force

    How many times do you see that happen though?
     
  9. Droos JP Rhodes


    Don't agree at all.



    I think a good addition to lineout rules would be that skew throws should only be penalised if the other team competes. What advantage do you gain from a skew throw if the other team didn't even send a jumper up to try and steal the ball!?


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    Scrums is and has probably been the biggest headache in rugby for the past 5 years or so, since they started policing it too much imo.


    What really pisses me off is that you can blatantly mark that some props deliberately collapse the scrums to try and either gain an advantage or get awarded a penalty - this by either binding short or scrumming up, down or at an angle. And my problem with this is that it coached to the players to do this! Fucks sake man, play the game fairly without coaching your players to bend the rules and try to milk penalties!!


    I agree Jabbs, that if the ball is at the 8th man's feet and the scrum has collapsed, it should be played by the 8 and not blown up because the ball is cleanly available.


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    This might be a good plan, to stop the clock whilst the scrum is being set, and start it as soon as the ball is fed. This might stop some of these deliberate collapses you see near the end of tight games.
     
  10. Droos JP Rhodes


    Agree with this. Any maul imo is obstruction. You are deliberately obstructing the ball with other players to keep it away from the opposition. They should do away with mauls completely imo, or change the rule to say that the ball carrier should at least be in some contact with a defender for ex. keeping the ball with the front most player, thus making the ball contestable unlike now.
     
  11. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    in the late 80s Northern hemisphere teams did it quite a bit before 5 point tries were introduced. Yes you are right I concede doesn't happen too often these days
     
  12. Sultan Pepper HG Emm

    ^^^^
    This massively
     
  13. Alex Mediocre MBE A Mediocre

    Anyone remember that Budweiser football ad with "multi-ball overtime"? Everyone gets a ball and you have to decide whether to score or stop the opposition scoring...
     
  14. Furball G Furball

    I think the game might benefit from a 5m rule. Sure, contest possession at the breakdown but I don't like the way the defensive line can sit on top of the ball.

    Scrums are a bit of a joke as well.
     
  15. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    No, with unlimited tackles teams would just pick and go all the way down the field in massive "drives".

    Right now it takes manly aggression to break the advantage line, with a 5m rule any mongrel would be able to.
     
  16. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    i dislike the rule that allows you to pass the ball off the ground after you have been tackled.

    You should always have to release the ball.
     
  17. Baxter MJ Deane

    That is a release though..
     
  18. Speirz DG Speirs

    That's actually one of the rules I love about rugby.
     
  19. BoyBlunder BOY Blunder

    Yeah agreed. That would be such a shit rule

    Wut? You want t introduce a rule to slow the game down even more?
     
  20. Hurricane JD Hurricane

    Maybe I need to reconsider. I was researching the rule today - and once a ruck forms then you are no longer able to pass off the ground. So if they implemented my rule when no ruck has been formed it would mean that a player would have to release it when no one else from either team was able to compete for the ball and it would just lie there out in the open which would be "odd".
     

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