I'm with Matt #11. The less importance you give to these forms of scoring, the less teams will attempt to score from them. Who wants to see a scoreboard dominated by penalty goals? Contrary to popular belief that this will increase the number of penalties given away i.e. "we may as well give away 2 points for a penalty rather than concede a try", I think the opposite will occur. Offending teams will quickly work out that the opposition won't kick for goal but kick for touch instead, putting more pressure on the defending team. Result? More tries and less penalties kicked. And of course the ref will always be there to deal with the cynical offending.

And I'm also in favour of having a time limit of halfbacks clearing the ball while it's sitting at the back of a ruck. Clear the damn thing! Give it 5 seconds or lose it.

To Me #15

Sounds as if you have issues? Perhaps you need to get something off your chest and put it back into the closet?

To FC Shaza #2 Get a life and stop devoting all your time posting comments on rugby, and not critizing football. The rest of nz is not interested. Do us all a favour and please return to the closet you crawled out of.

At ewoks

Get a life and stop devoting all your time posting comments on rugby, and critizing football. The rest of nz is not interested. Do us all a favour and please return to the cave you crawled out of.

rugby is gay

Matt

By your logic we should actually increase penalties to more than a try in order to stop teams giving penalties away instead of tries

Bring back rucking and problem solved!!! Duh!

Great decision but I fear that the negative forces will find a way to corn the rules. Haven't we heard how the great the ELV is until teams learned how to cheat around it? To me, bringing back the racking is what will fix the problem that was created by banning the racking at the first place.. I once got cleaned my back with prigs and never ever have I been on the "wrong side" after that.

Until drop goals are reduced to 1 point and penalties to two, it will always have a guise around forcing the opposition into making a penalty and still a reduced emphasis on try scoring.

Hi FC_Shaza #2,

Football last changed its rules when it disallowed goal keepers handling the ball when passed back by a team mate.

Their reason? To improve the spectacle. Sounds like your a real student of the game.

FC_Shaza #2: Think there's enough Hollywood antics on the football field to make Tom Cruise wanna jump on his couch.

Find these constant law changes tiresome, Southern Hemisphere has one set and the Northern Hemisphere doesn't want to play along. Spent most of my youth with one set and thoroughly enjoyed playing and watching. Now, well I just get confused with what is and isn't allowed.