"New sin bin rules to be trialed
The NRL has also told clubs the pre-season challenge will be used to trial a “new assessment” of how the sin-bin is used for illegal high tackles.
The trial will mean players will be sin binned if a high tackle results in the opposing player being removed from the field as a Category 1 HIA, or is the player fails the Category 2 HIA assessment, regardless of whether play has subsequently resumed after the incident."
Coming soon to a regular season game near you!....we may need to prepare for more gametime involving 12 men...11 on 13 will even happen more often, which is never good
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Actually, this may be to our faster, more nimble teams advantage.
I don't believe sin binning should be tied to how injured a player is. The tackle is either dangerously unacceptable, or we are OK with the risk (of course there is always some risk). The rule was always about intent and how the defender performed the tackle. This new rule just makes the waters murky.
This.
This has to be one of the most stupid rule changes, it can easily be manipulated and will turn league into soccer.
I'm not so sure. The rule only comes into play if the tackle is deemed illegal - so if someone gets an HIA from a legal tackle, then there's no sin bin.
It's only if someone gets an HIA as part of an illegal tackle.
I actually think that's fair - an HIA impacts the team who suffered the illegal act, it's only fair that the team who performed the illegal act is MORE penalised.
I don't think it's about equating an injury to the severity, I think it's about making sure the team who does the wrong thing gets the greatest disadvantage for it.
I don't mind this. But the proof will be in the pudding.
I get that, but what if the tackled player was able to negate injury through better body positioning in the tackle. Compare this to a player who has no regard for his own safety and then gets injured through the same tackle. Which tackle should be sin binned? If the tackle is dangerous, the player should be binned regardless. Or are we encouraging players to forego their own safety?
My problem with it is a low level player could take a high shot and fake a HIA in order to rub out a star player.
Kurupt clubs won't fake it due to the 10 day sit out period after HIA. Everyone said the same thing when 18th man was added but it never happened
That's exactly right. What's stopping a player faking a hia assessment? I understand that the player that fails will not be coming back, but the rule will more frequently be abused in the final 20 minutes where a player not being able to return won't disadvantage the team as much as a single bin for the opposition
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I knew it was someone here and you were my Chief suspect IIRC.
If so, well played good chap
All im saying is that Mclovin could be a close relative of mine.
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