Are the experimental law changes going to make the rugby union game more like the league game..i fear so !?

Question

Are the experimental law changes going to make the rugby union game more like the league game..i fear so !?

Answer 1

I think it defiently will i fear with you!

Answer 2

I am starting to fear you may well be right! I played for over 30yrs and saw a lot of changes, some I agreed with some not but the game fundamentally stayed the same. I now live in Australia and if your a union man you have to watch the Super 14 or nothing at all. the new ELV's don't look to bad at 1st glance ie hands in the ruck, well why not your not allowed to ruck anymore anyway! Pulling down the maul, everyone was doing it on the opposite side to the ref anyway! But all that's incidental when you look at what they have done to the scrum! Some skinny short a###ed guy who can do the 100 mtrs in 10.8 seconds, couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag, feeding the ball under the back rowers feet, now that's starting to sound like league to me.

I really hope that doesn't happen to the beautiful game. Lets keep the two games separate. They are two GREAT GAMES>  

Answer 3

oh aye ??

whats this ?I'm a ex rugby player and now i just watch my son play cos I'm an old f**t !! lol

tell me more?

Answer 4

No the change in the experimental laws is to quicken up the game so there are less stoppages.You only get pinned for a professional foul which is a straight arm.Everything else is a short arm which allows you to take a quick tap and run.

It's tiring and you have to be really fit with the new laws.

Answer 5

don't fear embrace it, league is a great game.

Answer 6

i can smell your fear.

I also fear

but yes...

ITS TRUE!

Answer 7

Only if they introduce the pulling down the maul and  free kicks galore rule and hands in the ruck rule. They haven't introduced the latter two into the Northern Hemisphere at least so I doubt that they will make it through. Even if they legalise pulling down the maul, whoever tries it is going to get the **** raked out of them anyway. I played my first game under the ELVs on Thursday. Since it was U-18, the maul rule hasn't been introduced as it's been banned at U-19 level in Ireland. The ELVs made no difference whatsoever. The only thing was we kept getting penalties because they wouldn't go back five metres. That said they're still stupid rules.

The Northern Hemisphere was doing just fine without them. we were selling out crowds every week. It's just that even despite this 'Entertaining Running Rugby' in the Southern Hemisphere, they couldn't give away tickets. So as long as they introduce just the ones that are in the Northern Hemisphere at the moment, it won't end up like league and chances are that's all that will happen because we outnumber Southern Hemisphere teams and will just reject them at voting time.

Answer 8

it's an attempt - but nowhere near enough yet!!!! :-)

Answer 9

it is an ever evolving rule set mainly so the northern hemisphere teams can foot it with the tri nations boys. Anything that will slow our flankers down and give them more shots at goal.

rugby will never be league unless they get rid of lineouts and make you hand over possession after 6 phases

Answer 10

I hope so, brian m. I hope they go the whole hog, so that Union, in effect, becomes League, and thus disappears. Union is fundamentally flawed. The only way to get any sort of watchable play is by ignoring the rules, particularly with regard to blocking, offside and playing the ball on the ground after being tackled. This is clearly why law changes are happening.

I played Union for my school for 7 years, and for some time wondered why our school referees blew the whistle every other second, but the refs on TV didn't. When I looked a bit closer at the TV games, I realised the players were committing just as many offences as me and my mates at school, but the refs weren't penalising them, obviously because the refs on TV knew that if they kept on stopping the game every second, people would soon switch off.