Rugby League?

Question

Hi and thanks in advance. A friend was saying that about 15 years ago in the ARL (Australian Rugby League) that the team who just scored a try was also the team that would kick off afterwards. I do know now that the team who scores a try does not kick off, the team that was scored against does. Is anyone able confirm that it use to be the other way around? Thanks again!

Answer 1

there are different types of rugby where the ball is kicked off by the scoring team

Answer 2

Apisto is exactly right it was in Super League

Answer 3

yes before super leauge like in the 80,s and early 90,s the team that scored a try would kick off .Then they changed it to the team that scored a try would recieve the ball.

Answer 4

Apisto is 100% right. ARL or NRL have never had that, but the 1 year of that debacle of a comeptition known as Superleague had that rule you and friend were talking about.

Answer 5

They trialled the concept during the Super League war in 1997. However it was only the breakaway Super League competition that embraced the idea. At the time the ARL competition remained with the side who had just conceded the try kicked off.

They originally brought the idea in because they thought that it would give the side who had just been scored against an opportunity with the ball, however after receiving the kick off they found that most sides would drop the ball in the first set of six giving the other side a chance to score again.

So to answer your question - yes they trialled it in 1997 but only in the Super League comp.

Answer 6

I don't think so.

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Answer 7

Apisto, I completley agree.. I have never known NRL to play that way..

Answer 8

Not in the ARL, but in Superleague (the rebel competition) in 1997 was where the scoring side would kick off.