From what I've seen and heard, the ELV's worked well in the ARC, but its simply too late for Super14 2008. Its fine for Irishman Syd Millar to grandstand, but he's just stepped down so he won't have to wear the resulting flak. The IRB knew teams would go defensive at the business end of the RWC, but loosening up on forward passes didn't help. (Anyone for 2-point penalties or drops?). The problem of boring rugby resides in the northern hemisphere where referees upstage teams with pedantic calls which slow down play. By the way, Crusaders play 15 man rugby.

The tinkermen are everywhere...always appealing to the southern hemisphere (whatever that means) to "improve" the game. Rugby league is soooo much better these days isn't it? Childish, pathetic idiots who'd probably like to improve chess by introducing rooks that explode if not moved at least once every ten minutes. The same mentality that equates tries and points on a little scoreboard with quality rugby...but that's about all rugby is to men such as this..."drama", "entertainment", a "spectacle"... Get a life.

One of the axioms of the experimental laws is to keep the ball in play, or put another way, stop play grinding to a halt when the ball is in play. Legalising 'hands in the ruck' has met with an equivocal response. Therefore, why not extend the 5 second ruling on mauls to include rucks? In this way defending teams would have to 'use or lose' their ruck ball. This will create a need to run the ball out of defence where they would formerly have conveniently waited for a touch kicker to take up position. It would also mean not relying so much on 'pick and go' drives from attacking rucks. Isn't that what we all want to see?

I don't really understand the point that Saxon Paige Vickers-Buckley is making, but references to rugby league by posters such as him tend to be derogatory, so I'll assume that it is. There has been a tremendous amount of debate about the state of rugby union, ironically after what must be the most successful competition to date. What so many people on various websites and blogs forget, though, is that the game has had many changes over the last 40 years in an attempt to improve it as a spectacle, so why the worry now more suggestions are being made? It's no good some union diehards insisting that they would rather see close arm-wrestles devoid of tries, like the tedious RWC Final. Spectators who are not partisan want to see at least some running and passing.

Not just super 14 but all rugby needs a shake up, this year has been the most boring rugby i have ever seen especially the super 14. Something needs to happen in Aussie rugby has died here it cant compete with League and AFL and fans arent going to the games.

this last union world cup must have been the the boring union world cup to date. thw way forward for union to to reduce the teams to 13, and get rid of the line outs.

Rugby Union in Australia is a very poor third to Aussie Rules and RL. Kiwis only play rugby and cricket and between them they produce only a couple of thousand players at any & all levels yet the tens of thousands who play the game elsewhere in the world will have their game affected by this overwhelming worldwide minority. Lets keep the 5 metre rule at the scrum, prevent passing back into the 22 and all of the lineout changes. You can shove the rest.