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Date Posted: Sun, November 09 2008, 18:55:21 GMT-10
Author: g
Subject: Change the Law for charge-downs?

I would like to propose a change in the Laws regarding chareg-downs. The way the Laws stand at present, if you are successful in executing a chargedown, you are penalised, in a way, by the other team getting the tackle-count restarted. However, if you accidentally get in the road of a kick, and effectively charge it down by accident, then the other team does not get the tackle-count restarted.

So basically, you gain a greater outcome by the accidental charge-down than by being skillful and effecting a deliberate chareg-down. There is no reward for skill, rather a penalty!

So why not change the Laws so that a charge-down is NOT counted as a play at the ball for the purpose of the tackle count? Lets reward a skill of the game!

Imagine if you culd charge-down a kick knowing that there was no restart to the tackle count?? Think of the games on grand final day that went into overtime, and how a free chargedown may have changed the way they were played.

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