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If you read the article accidental contact is covered off as is the attacker causing the illegal contact. Not every penalty will result in a card and correctly so but players & coaches are going to have to improve their tackling techniques and not whinge all the time.

I understand what you are saying but there are a fair few attackers who get concussive head knocks and we are talking about tackling below the shoulders not below the waist. The vast majority of head contact by a defender on an attacker could be avoided which is what they are trying to do. The aim isn’t 100% safe but more safe than what it is now.

I can already hear Barry & Terry exploding as someone is sent off

I don’t disagree but the pressure to relax will come from the coaches & players with their cheerleaders in the press. From memory the wording is very similar to a few years ago when the PTB was much cleaner etc. Now if only coaches would do their job and actually coach players to follow the laws and the players followed that coaching.

The match officials will do as instructed. How the players, coaches, journalists and TV presenters react will be the determining factors. If the first 2 don’t adapt but whinge, usually loudly, and the last 2 encourage and support them then the instructions will be watered down based on past experience. Now if the RFL, for once, dig their heels in and ride out the early season penalty fests and keep players & coaches in line by enforcing their own disciplinary guidelines we, ie the fans/ paying public, will get a much better game to watch. Weeks 3 and 4 of the season will be key.

Reading the admittedly poorly worded article from the RFL I think the real aim is to have a much more controlled and cleaner PTB. No late involvements; no hands on the ball; no contact with the floor when playing the ball; making a genuine attempt to play the ball etc do tidy the ruck up providing they are enforced. Also, none of this is new. It’s definitely a return to the time of the previous head of the referees who was very keen on those aspects.

The defending team will have less time to set if the other tackle interpretations are enforced. No late man in or hands on the ball with reduce time to get back the 10m and set.

It has to be hands on the ball by defenders in an attempt to slow down the PTB. It is a return to how it was supposed to be a few years ago and may be a source of penalties early in the season as it is hands on the ball that is one of the biggest factors in the mess called the PTB at the moment.

So Salford have presumably received at least a couple of not insignificant transfer fees in the last few months and funds from the public appeal, again not insignificant, but now need an advance on their central funding?

Hopefully they will get a tune out of him

If you enjoy Knots & Crosses then there are just another 23 very readable Rebus novels to follow plus a few short stories.

So what do you think should be done

“Doing a Beaumont” would presumably mean rebranding as Wildcats” but using a dog as the image.

Who mentioned train station? Buses have stations as well

After 111 pages it seems that a system which is supposed to encourage long term & forward thinking has garnered support from fans of clubs who fall into that bracket and has upset some fans of clubs who either started the journey yesterday (ie the last season or so) and those who haven’t either got to the station.

And even then they would be in accurate positions of low Grade Bs. In fact it’s likely that combining their scores (or merging) would still leave them short of a Top 12 spot

That is highly unlikely to meet any definition of “benefit to the community” Also if the cost is only £80k to do the temporary work it does make you wonder why it has taken so long.

That would be Hetherington’s best bit of transfer business for many a season

That’s why they are trying to sign Lachlan Walmsley - they think they are related

That’s a really good signing. He was outstanding last season in a very average team

Joey Romeo from Swinton to Whitehaven.

I know it’s a bit early but “oh no there isn’t” a transfer thread

This must be the first ever meeting of clubs where nothing has leaked

That was in the pipeline before the demise of Thunder by all accounts. Solid without being spectacular would be my assessment

That’s the third shirt booked in