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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 632283" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>1. I firmly believe that reducing penalties to 2 points will only lead to teams giving more penalties away, thus having a negative effect on the game. It could work if ref's were more prepared to hand out yellow cards for obvious offences in the 'red zone'.</p><p></p><p>I'd have no problem if drop goals were reduced to 2 points. It'd stop sides from taking pot shots at goal when they have a penalty advantage, thus promoting sides to take a chance and go for a try with the knowledge they can come back for a penalty. I don't understand why teams don't do this anyway, but reducing the value of drop goals could help. I don't mind the odd drop goal, but sometimes there's just way too many attempts made for my liking. It seems to have calmed down a lot though.</p><p></p><p>2. I wouldn't mind seeing the clock stopped for scrums, but I'd much prefer them to sort out the scrum properly instead. If the clock were stopped, there's a good chance ref's would just arse about even more, resetting scrum after scrum, which is still terrible for the viewers.</p><p></p><p>3. Quite vague, but makes sense. There's already a lot of penalising at the breakdown, often with very fine margins as to which side should have got the penalty, so not sure if it would necessarily reduce offences. It'd be nice if first the breakdown was reffed in the same manner in both the NH and SH .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 632283, member: 13739"] 1. I firmly believe that reducing penalties to 2 points will only lead to teams giving more penalties away, thus having a negative effect on the game. It could work if ref's were more prepared to hand out yellow cards for obvious offences in the 'red zone'. I'd have no problem if drop goals were reduced to 2 points. It'd stop sides from taking pot shots at goal when they have a penalty advantage, thus promoting sides to take a chance and go for a try with the knowledge they can come back for a penalty. I don't understand why teams don't do this anyway, but reducing the value of drop goals could help. I don't mind the odd drop goal, but sometimes there's just way too many attempts made for my liking. It seems to have calmed down a lot though. 2. I wouldn't mind seeing the clock stopped for scrums, but I'd much prefer them to sort out the scrum properly instead. If the clock were stopped, there's a good chance ref's would just arse about even more, resetting scrum after scrum, which is still terrible for the viewers. 3. Quite vague, but makes sense. There's already a lot of penalising at the breakdown, often with very fine margins as to which side should have got the penalty, so not sure if it would necessarily reduce offences. It'd be nice if first the breakdown was reffed in the same manner in both the NH and SH . [/QUOTE]
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