In the high-pressure match environment players are struggling to comprehend and understand “policy tweaks” to how the game is officiated.
NRL players are being challenged to process the avalanche of rule changes coming out of Rugby League Central in recent years.
Melbourne’s Nelson Asofa-Solomona placed his hand on the back of Eli Katoa as his teammate was surging for a try, but immediately withdrew from the action. The Kiwi international suddenly realised this was a breach of a rule which the NRL had insisted in the off-season it was intent on enforcing. It takes a few hundred milliseconds for a message to travel from neuron to fingertip, perhaps a little longer for a two-metre human.
It becomes doubly challenging when a rule change is widely advertised by the NRL and then basically ignored. NRL head of football Graham Annesley argues we should be comparing the breaches with 2023. “The level of compliance on the downtown rule compared to last year is chalk and cheese,” he said.“Disruptors are the big issue at the moment,” he added, in reference to the deciding try in the Roosters versus Storm match where Melbourne’s Reimis Smith was accused of impeding Connor Watson taking a high ball.
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