Veteran rugby league pundit Phil Rothfield has floated a contest factors overhaul that may reward groups who lose in golden level — however the remainder of the NRL 360 panel wasn’t having it in a heated debate on Monday night time.
Penrith’s nail-biting extra-time victory over Newcastle on Saturday night time has reignited dialogue about golden level, with Rothfield believing it’s unfair the Knights come away empty-handed regardless of matching the reigning premiers in regulation time.
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He put ahead an answer; adopting an identical competitors factors system to the AFL the place a daily season win could be price 4 factors, two greater than underneath the present system.
Golden level wins would then be price three factors, with a aspect that loses after extra-time accumulating one level. A drawn match after extra-time would imply groups take two factors every.
“You blokes can knock it all you want. I am backing myself because it’s a sensible idea. We need to copy the AFL and every win should be worth four competition points,” Rothfield stated.
“I felt so sorry for Newcastle walking away with nothing the other day.
“If you go to four competition points, and if it’s golden point the winner gets three the loser gets one. And if it’s a draw you get two each. What difference is it going to make to the competition table by having four points for wins?
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“… The only difference it makes is when a side like Newcastle plays so brave, so strong, so willing against Penrith they’re entitled to get a point.”
Rothfield, nevertheless, discovered little help from NRL co-hosts Paul Kent and Braith Anasta, or fellow panellist Brent Read.
“That’s the beauty of sport. You lose the game you walk away with nothing,” Kent stated.
“… it’s like every kid gets a ribbon?”
Anasta agreed powerful losses such because the one the Knights suffered have been “part of sport” whereas Read added: “Over the course of the season Buzz, it will even out. If they (Newcastle) keep putting in that sort of effort they’ll get the rewards over the course of the season but you can’t give a team a point for losing.”
Kent stated the Knights “blew it” within the closing phases of the match as Penrith marched downfield within the first set of extra-time, permitting Nathan Cleary to hit the successful discipline purpose from simply contained in the 40m mark.
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There has been widespread debate concerning the present guidelines for the reason that match however Kent, in his Daily Telegraph column on the difficulty, took goal at “professors taking out their pencils” and eager to “reinvent the game.”
“For every winner there has to be a loser,” Kent wrote.
“Attempts to somehow find a way to reward Newcastle challenges what most find captivating about elite sport. It takes us back to the schoolyard mentality where every kid gets a ribbon nowadays.
“It is a weakness in society.
“… they (Newcastle) had a chance to defend their way to a win and fell short. And sometimes that is what sport is about.”
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