{"id":479284,"date":"2025-11-10T18:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=479284"},"modified":"2025-11-10T23:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:21:04","slug":"kick-off-change-rubbished-while-worst-rule-ever-ripped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=479284","title":{"rendered":"Kick off change rubbished while 'worst rule ever' ripped"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \ufeffNRL's consideration for a kick off rule change has been rubbished as pleas continue for the organisation to stop making tweaks to the game.<\/p>\n

The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> revealed on Sunday that teams that score a try could be made to kick off as early as next season.<\/p>\n

Surveys are about to be sent to clubs, according to the report, \ufeffwith the kick off rule on the agenda.<\/p>\n

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When news broke, \ufeffCanterbury Bulldogs general manager Phil Gould<\/a> took to X, describing the idea as "rubbish".<\/p>\n

"Whoever it was that regurgitated the concept of the scoring team kicking off in the NRL, should be publicly whipped … please … they tried this rubbish years ago and it was a disaster back then," he said.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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Former representative star Josh Morris joined in the frustration when speaking on 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio.<\/p>\n

"Why are we trying to change rules?," he said.<\/p>\n

"… I don't like if you score, you kick off, that makes no sense whatsoever."<\/p>\n

Morris also made his thoughts known on another recent rule change: the drop out.<\/p>\n

\"Josh<\/p>\n

\ufeffCurrently if the drop out goes out on the full or doesn't travel more than 10 metres, it's a play the ball restart instead of a penalty kick.<\/p>\n

"The worst rule ever is the short drop out already," he said.<\/p>\n

"Let's not have one where you score a try and lose your advantage by not getting the ball back. To me that's very silly, you don't earn anything for scoring a try. Don't change the rules.<\/p>\n

"There's no accountability \ufefffor a poor kick these days … it just doesn't make sense to me. I think everyone's had enough of that rule and the sooner we see it gone the better."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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