The following are some rules Rugby League rules I'd like to change. The first, third, fourth and fifth points mentioned are the rules I'd like most to change.
Penalise players who use lead with their heads into tackles - If you get a tackle wrong and your bicep hits an opposition player in the head you can get penalised, put on report or even sent off. However if you get a tackle really wrong and you smash your head into theirs you don't get penalised. In fact in a lot of cased you get the ball back when the opposition player knocks on and have the opposition down to 16 players. Some players just don't seem to care if they make contact with their head (eg Josh Miller) and some players seem to do it deliberately (I'm looking at you Nate Myles and yes, even my beloved James Graham). If you penalise them for it, it would stop it quick smart. And the game needs to get serious about concussions. I don't mean to penalise those situations where an attacking player makes a sudden switch and a defender has no chance to make a correction. This is what I want to stop.
Bring back the send off rule - Oh it's still on the books apparently. Well use it occasionally then.
Put players in the Sin Bin who are put on report - Players are put in the Bin for for professional fouls but not dirty play, which is just ridiculous. If a player is put on report they should should be sent to the Bin, If the video ref thinks they don't have a case to answer they can come straight back on. Othwerwise it's a 5 minute time out. Indeed I'd even consider that if the video ref thinks it warrants it, that the offending player is not allowed back on after the 5 minutes, but that his team can go back to having 13 players.
Replacing players injured because of foul play - Teams should be allowed to carry extra reserves on the bench. If a player is injured because of foul play and can't continue, a replacement reserve is allowed. My views on the previous 3 points are well summed up by this incident involving Tyson Frizell & Tim Browne
Getting rid of golden point - Who was the bright spark who bought this in? Nobody was calling for it. There are very few draws each season and when they do occur they are entertaining. They definitely shouldn't be used in semi finals or grand finals (at least until an extra 10 minutes has been played). I'm not sure if this rule was changed after the Broncos vs Cowboys grand final. It should have been changed after the Broncos vs Dragons semi final a few years before that.
Get rid of the 40/20 - yes I know that this brings about attacking opportunities, but teams shouldn't be stuck in their own 40 on the last tackle. And why if you support this rule is is only 40/10 and not 50/10 or 30/30 or 20/40. Rugby League is a running game, If I wanted to watch a game with teams kicking away possession I'd watch Rugby Yawn-a-thon.
Get rid of the 7 tackle rule for kicks that have gone dead, when the kick came from inside the attacking 20 - The idea of the rule was good. Teams were banging from around the halfway line (I think the practice was started by that miserable Jamie Soward). They didn't mind giving a 20 metre restart as they could set a good defensive line. However no teams means to kick when inside the opposition 20.
Get rid of 7 tackles when missing a field goal - introduced when the rule above was introduced. Ridiculous that 7 tackles can be given when a team misses a field goal late in a game, although this rule has worked in the Bulldogs favour a number of times.
Tries for bombs can not be scored where ball comes off an attacking player and hits the ground - I hate those tries where the bomb goes up, it's tapped back and hits the ground, there is a scramble and a try is scored. If the ball is batted back to a team mate who catches it before it hits the ground, all well & good.
If a kickoff goes out on the full, the penalty from half way has to be a tap (eg no kick for goal or kicking for touch) - This is already a big enough penalty without tacking on 30 more metres (I'd be tempted to say the same for kicks kick offs that don't go 10 metres, but would want to make sure this rule didn't lead to a surge in short kick offs).
Don't penalise teams the non-kickoff team who touches a ball that hasn't gone 10 metres from the kickoff - I hate those short kick offs that just dribble over the 10 metre line and the defensive team can't make a play for the ball until it gets to the 10 metre line. It's a stupid rule.
Get rid of the 6 again rule - I hate when a team puts in a terrible squib kick on the 6th tackle and gets rewarded with 6 again when the defending team can't cleanly regather. Also 6 again on the first tackle gives the attacking team no real benefit and yet if it occurs on the first tackle there is a massive benefit. The way around this is to give an extra 3 tackles (eg you would get 9 tackles).
Following a knock on when the opposition regather the ball it is open slather and if it doesn't work out they get the ball back - I think that was used in the Nines and might be used in the UK. It would encourage the team regathering the ball to play some entertaining football knowing if it doesn't pan out that they will still retain possession.
Reversing penalties - Braith Anasta holds down David Fa'alago for too long. Fa'alago punches Anasta in the head and gets 10 in the Bin, Fa'alago gets the penalty. As Anasta says to the ref 'You're off your head!'. When the secondary offence is so much more severe than the original penalty, it should be reversed (also how wasn't Fa'alago sent off). Also I'd reverse penalties for players who throw the ball at other players or mockingly pat them etc (unless the person doing the mocking is Mick Ennis).
Don't test for marijuana - It's not a performance enhancer. If I was a club CEO and one of players was using it I'd be concerned, but a player shouldn't be suspended because of it.
Stop banning players for non-violent indescretions - The Todd Carney bubbler incident might leave a bitter taste in your mouth, but you shouldn't be able to sack a player over such an incident.
Parramatta and St George to have criminally inept leadership - Ok. This one has been taken care of.
A rule I would have introduced but is now to late to do so: Send of for shoulder charges that are high and with steep suspensions - It's too late to do it now because the shoulder charge is banned, I wouldn't have gone this far. Some players were brilliant at using the shoulder charge (SBW) and other smaller players (Chis Sandow) could never hit a player in the head with it. But I fear that changing this rule would lead to law suits.
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