End of an era: Are we seeing a new style of rugby league tactics developing before our eyes?
The end of Round 11 might not seem the obvious place to stop and take stock of the rugby league world, but it is…
Are we actually watching 80 minutes of football in 2013? Can the NRL start looking at the time it takes for teams to pack and feed the scrum?
In round two, we averaged 14 scrums per game, most scrums were taking 45 seconds to pack and feed. Some went beyond a minute.
You do this 14 times throughout a game and all of a sudden it adds up to seven minutes of game time lost.
Maybe the referees need to start blowing penalties for deliberate ploys to waste time.
What happened to the goal kicking timer? Again, I will revert to round two.
On average we had six tries scored per game. We generally lose 90 seconds between the time they award the try and blow the whistle for the restart.
Seriously, stop the clock from the time they award the try and restart the game.
I understand this all sounds trivial. But over 80 minutes of footy when you take into account the above two examples, we are losing close to 10-12 minutes of game time per game.
This doesn’t even take into account the 40 seconds for drop outs.
Do other fans feel troubled by the lack of actual game time?
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