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Choke Tackles - Do you think they add to the spectacle of the game?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mrs. Peter Quinn" data-source="post: 710330" data-attributes="member: 12190"><p>One further aspect of the rule that I think people get confused with is 'legally collapsing a maul' - there's no such thing (refs back me up!). If you hold a guy up and the referee calls 'Maul' you still can't legally bring it to ground without being penalised - you have to keep holding him up, either wait until the referee calls for the resulting scrum, or wait for the opposition to bring you to ground and, when they do, make bloody well sure they can't get the ball out!</p><p></p><p>And on that note I think its worth adding that this is the bit most people object to - its the lying all over the ball to make sure it doesn't come out which just seems incongruous. Maybe rules-wise there's a potential compromise to be found - if you can hold the player up for a set amount of time, fair beans, turnover, but if the opposition get you to ground quickly, you shouldn't be able to lie all over it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrs. Peter Quinn, post: 710330, member: 12190"] One further aspect of the rule that I think people get confused with is 'legally collapsing a maul' - there's no such thing (refs back me up!). If you hold a guy up and the referee calls 'Maul' you still can't legally bring it to ground without being penalised - you have to keep holding him up, either wait until the referee calls for the resulting scrum, or wait for the opposition to bring you to ground and, when they do, make bloody well sure they can't get the ball out! And on that note I think its worth adding that this is the bit most people object to - its the lying all over the ball to make sure it doesn't come out which just seems incongruous. Maybe rules-wise there's a potential compromise to be found - if you can hold the player up for a set amount of time, fair beans, turnover, but if the opposition get you to ground quickly, you shouldn't be able to lie all over it. [/QUOTE]
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