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\u201cThere\u2019s been a bit of debate about whether we bring in the six-again for the girls, and I think it would help the officials to allow the game to not just turn into a lay-on with five second play the balls,\u201d the Roosters coach said at the end of Round 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not good enough, and it\u2019s not a good enough spectacle if that\u2019s going to continue. Maybe that is something that the NRL can look at.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will obviously bridge the gap with the boys. It is a quick game now. It is great to watch with the six-agains. It is very fast, and it doesn\u2019t allow for that wrestle.<\/p>\n
Asked by foxsports.com.au about the prospect of introducing the \u2018six-again rule\u2019 to the NRLW, Roosters star Jocelyn Kelleher echoed her coach\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n
The NSW Blues playmaker admitted that she would \u201clove it\u201d as it would add another attacking weapon for halves.<\/p>\n
However, she acknowledged that it could create extra challenges for forwards in the middle who would be defending against a faster game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I played it a couple of years ago in BMD (Premiership) and I think I liked it,\u201d Kelleher said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet on the front foot, I think as a half it\u2019s fun, but I\u2019m not sure how the middles would feel about that having to go again, especially in defence, but there\u2019s pros and cons to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the boys\u2019 games they give away stuff on purpose and try and use it as a tactic, but there\u2019s pros and cons. I would love it as a half.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kelleher\u2019s teammate Keeley Nizza was also open to the discussion, agreeing that the \u2018six-again rule\u2019 could have benefits but stressed the importance that there will always be pros and cons to its introduction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like there\u2019s definitely some takeaways from it,\u201d Nizza said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a lot of feedback from older people in particular about our game, the women\u2019s game, is that there\u2019s a lot less wrestle and I know that\u2019s the way the men\u2019s game\u2019s gone back to now with less wrestle<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s something that people love watching is the quick play-the-ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when there is slow play-the-ball, that four second play the balls it can be really frustrating to watch. <\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely don\u2019t want to see the game go down that route.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, teammate and former Golden Boot winner Tarryn Aiken believes the biggest priority should instead be ensuring consistency from officials, regardless of whether the \u2018six-again rule\u2019 is introduced.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely an interesting topic in our game,\u201d Aiken said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think probably just the consistency with the referee and around the ruck speed is probably what\u2019ll help, whether it\u2019s the six-again or not. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think it just needs to be consistent week to week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not too strong either way. I just think consistency with the play-the-ball speed is the big thing and how that\u2019s refereed. I\u2019d just like to see more consistency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debate over bringing the \u2018six-again rule\u2019 to the NRLW has intensified with three of the competition\u2019s biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-821124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}