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Player feedback should ring alarms for NRL about new rules – Sydney Morning Herald
It’s faster, no doubt. The NRL’s new rules have set an already manic game alight but the cost may be fairness, quality and the durability of its stars.
Players reporting they could barely breathe during a trial that had the intensity of a finals match shouldnt be seen by NRL powerbrokers as vindication for their vision for the game. To clarify, this was due to new rule changes, not sides having failed to train the house down in what was no doubt their best pre-season ever.
On the face of things, the NRL has already achieved some of its aims to make the game even quicker than it was last season, when the six-again rule for ruck infringements turbo-charged…
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