Scoring system

[Manx RL]

I see a fatal flaw in your plan though - I dont think Stuart Hall is available to Ref the new style game !

 

He is now...

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

I see a fatal flaw in your plan though - I dont think Stuart Hall is available to Ref the new style game !

You could then play a joker. We've had plenty of them over the years.

[OMEGA]

RU is doing its best to evolve into RL so if we reverse engineer our game we might meet Union somewhere in the middle!

Trouble is it'd be an inferior game because of it so let's not eh!

[OMEGA]

How about if you score a try under the sticks your next set of six is done with a multiball system, let's say 5 balls.

If you kick a penalty the opposition must wear clown shoes for 3 play the balls.

If you kick a drop goal an eagle is used to restart the game, with the ball dropped randomly in play. Maybe.

Any knock on is an instant red card. Unless you remembered to play your joker, which will be the fattest fan in the ground.

All forward passes will be ignored if you wear red....oh hang on.

I think the IRB have already copyrighted those rules!

[Tonka]

I like the current system but think we should also have:

 

5 for a left-handed try

(or 5 for a right-handed one if you are left-handed.  A bit unfair on the ambidextrous but you can't please everyone)

 

4 for a penalty or conversion scored with your eyes shut

 

10 for a back-heeled drop goal

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

Some wonderful wit - my thanks to many contributors above.

 

Meanwhile, Tonka, don't worry about being unfair on the ambidextrous.  Let's face it, Ambidextra aren't exactly setting international RL alight and I cannot see them qualifying for the world cup any time soon.

[Tonka]

True.  I think they were last in this year's Pacific Nations Cup.  They have some decent players in the Queensland / NSW Cups but their infrastructure is shot.

[Lobbygobbler]

How about a 2 point drop goal from within your own half?

Or a 5 or even 6 point try if scored from a PTB originating in your own half? This might encourage more open play

[sigesige00]

Could you tell me the average number of DG attempts/successes in a game (NRL, Super League, World Cup etc)?

[deluded pom?]

Could you tell me the average number of DG attempts/successes in a game (NRL, Super League, World Cup etc)?

Danny Brough is the best one to answer that, or is he?

[TaxiEgg]

How about 5 pts for a try scored from your own half and 3 pts for a try scored from a kick within the 10 metres .

[Manx RL]

Danny Brough is the best one to answer that, or is he?

 

Better off asking Phil Bentham

[TaxiEgg]

How about doing away with substitutes so all the players Play all the time

[sigesige00]

How about doing away with substitutes so all the players Play all the time

I suggest an exact opposite of your suggestion--unlimited substitution (like Futsal, Hockey, Ice Hockey) and increasing the number of subs.

[Copa]

20 points if a shark is involved in the passage of play that results in a try.

[Dunbar]

The current scoring system is:

4 Try

2 Conversion

2 PG

1 DG

However, is this the best system?

For example, there are too many PGs in RU, but there are too small number of PGs in RL. So I would like to see the value of PG being increased from 2 to 3.

Let's discuss anything.

I would like to hear your reasoning for coming to the conclusion that there are not enough penalty goals in Rugby League.

[GIANTSTRIDES]

Scoring is fine as it is. One rule I would definitely change ( sorry if it's been done before )  Kicking the ball dead from outside the 40 metre line should result in the tap being taken on the 40metre line.

[Tonka]

I would like to hear your reasoning for coming to the conclusion that there are not enough penalty goals in Rugby League.

Everyone loves penalty goals - don't they?

[johnh1]

Love them. Means you have time to go to the loo and make a cup of tea. Especially when that Welsh player takes them.

[EdinburghExile]

I'd like to see drop goals increasing in value in a match. The first one is worth one point, the next one two and so on. Balance that by removing one point more than it would be worth if the attempt is missed.

 

[Tonka]

I'd like to see drop goals increasing in value in a match. The first one is worth one point, the next one two and so on. Balance that by removing one point more than it would be worth if the attempt is missed.

 

 

...and the match was sealed by an 11 point drop goal by Leeds in the last minute...

[Exiled Wiganer]

I read a suggestion somewhere that the point scoring system should be changed at the lower levels, with a punt goal being worth 6 points in veterans' games.

[Saint Toppy]

I'd like to see drop goals increasing in value in a match. The first one is worth one point, the next one two and so on. Balance that by removing one point more than it would be worth if the attempt is missed.

 

Do you work for the RFU and this is part of your master plan to make RL as boring as yawnion so they can make a complete takeover ?

 

RL evolved to get rid of the boring elements like lineouts, 5 minute scrums and constant to you / to me kickathon's. Anyhting that encourages more of these boring elements in our game needs stamping out not encouraging.

[EdinburghExile]

Do you work for the RFU and this is part of your master plan to make RL as boring as yawnion so they can make a complete takeover ?

 

RL evolved to get rid of the boring elements like lineouts, 5 minute scrums and constant to you / to me kickathon's. Anyhting that encourages more of these boring elements in our game needs stamping out not encouraging.

If I'd been working for them, I'd have suggested that drop goals could only be attempted after a scrum had collapsed six times consecutively. Points available doubled if the pitch is more than three inches deep in mud.

[EdinburghExile]

I read a suggestion somewhere that the point scoring system should be changed at the lower levels, with a punt goal being worth 6 points in veterans' games.

That's just reminded me of an under-11 game I played in where one of my team mates (Chris Richmond, whatever happened to him etc etc) punted it straight over the sticks, and the young ref gave it! I'm pretty sure Chris meant to drop-kick it...