Thoughts on driving mauls?

[hendrix]

Yeah I pretty much agree with everyone else here.

Although I also think that if you changed the rules to make it less effective, we would probably just see teams taking a lot of pots at goal instead of line-outs.

Most teams have 1-3 players who are pretty much guaranteed to break the advantage line. Getting a try from 5m out isn't that difficult.

The problem is that now it also comes with the chance of a yellow for the defensive team too.

[91Jmay]

Yeah I pretty much agree with everyone else here.

Although I also think that if you changed the rules to make it less effective, we would probably just see teams taking a lot of pots at goal instead of line-outs.

Yeah this is true, it reduces the point of kicking to corner from penalty quite a lot. Scrum is already a very risky option for most teams, so this does then bring kicks at goal back in .

Rugby a very delicate eco system, need to be careful.

[Furball]

A blight on the game the way they're being policed. Defence basically has 2 options: concede a try or concede a penalty/penalty try and get someone binned for bringing the maul down.