Quote Originally Posted by goods78 View Post

One aspect of new rule that is driving me nuts is the umpires at every contest asking for the rucks to put their hands up to nominate ruck. It's like under 7's!




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Particularly shown to be crazy last week in the Cats v North game, where the Cats nominated no one to contest a number of ball ups that resulted from stoppages in play. You basically had the ridiculous sight of only the North ruckman (Preuss) 'contesting' the ruck, with the Cats effectively having an extra player on the ground ready to get the tap or tackle whoever got the resultant tap out. Not what they expected when requiring teams to nominate a ruckman no doubt.

That was a real blight on the game and I can see another 'interpretation' coming, whereby umpires would (and should) ping teams for not contesting ruck contests.