The latching and bound pods things will be interesting, given how often that happens. And the 50-22 may change how often we see box kicks in the middle of the park, with teams instead choosing between running the ball and kicking long
good fetchers right across the park will be important, as will kicking options out wide - centres and wings, fullbacks coming up into the line
they should also consider enforcing some of the current laws - eg
tackled player has to roll away
Entry at ruck when a team has driven over. Too often youll see a group of players drive over the ruck and passed an opposition pmayer standing next to the ruck, then the opposition player picks it up despite the fact that he didnt retreat behind his side of that moving ruck.
also, why should the attacking team have mire rights to a ball sitting amongst bodies when none are on their feet. To me that should be ruck over, anybodys game. They need ti work out how to get teams to play in the spirit of the game, to keep on their feet at rucks. I know they have wanted to give advantage to the attacking team because they thought that would lead to more attacking play, but defenses are so good these days that phase play tends to be the less effective, and more boring, type of play. Going to ground at the ruck in order to hold onto the ball for multiple phases first occurred as the reault of rugby going professional, ie when the spirit of the game no longer mattered, inteoduced by eddie jones with the brumbies and wallabies, followed by clice woodward, then graham henry and then everyone else. Its sad that rules and their interpretations need to keep changing because they are so subjective that professional teams will continue to try and figure out the best way to cheat, or "play to the limit of the law".
