Here's how one rule tweak changed the game... ✏ via CKennedy80
A rule tweak at the end of 2017 allowing one-on-one steals to be executed in multi-tackler tackles provided only one defender was involved at the time of the strip saw the tactic proliferate last season.
Teams were generally good at ensuring they didn't infringe once they decided to attempt a steal – there were 25 penalties for stealing the ball where it was deemed there was more than one in the tackle. Roosters coach Trent Robinson and, perhaps surprisingly, Raider coach Ricky Stuart have publicly criticised the rule.
Melbourne's Christian Welch runs into contact with both arms wrapped firmly around the ball and is met firmly by Knights trio Connor Watson, Tim Glasby and Hymel Hunt. Glasby grabs Welch's left arm while Hunt drops to make a legs tackle and Watson wraps both arms around the ball and begins tugging it away. Watson can be seen giving Glasby a direction then reefing the ball out as Glasby releases Welch.
In all, there were 120 steals in 2019, from 201 total games, at a rate of slightly over one steal for every two games.Of those 120, some would have been legal one-on-one steals even under the old interpretation and in many more the stripping action largely occurs in a one-on-one scenario despite earlier involvement from an extra tackler or tacklers.
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