Ricketz
Norm Smith Medallist
The interpretation needed a slight tweak instead they have changed it completely. Some of the HTB decisions now paid where a player picks up the ball and they are tackled straight away goes against everything we want in the game. Players will soon not pick up the ball and instead just tap it forward or kick it off the ground to prevent a free getting paid against them. And this is coming from a tiger fan where the new interpretation actually helps us with the way we play.
Tap it on instead of getting caught for another ball up, you say? How curious.
It was never the case that the ball winner had it so easily as the last five or so years. Suck it up you pop up sprinklers and think back to the days twenty years ago when the ball getter would navigate an ear massage, uppercut and a jumper scrag before clearing it.
This is the right rule change you nellies.