Interesting the Cas fans in this thread love it. They'd have been screaming blue murder if they'd lost that match to a golden point without even touching the ball in extra time. That's no way to decide a contest and was well harsh on Halifax.



If they insist on finishing on the day then I'd play 10 minutes extra time with a Golden Try system. Drop and penalty goals can still be made but they wouldn't count until the end of that 10 minute period. A try would win the game there and then (unless the opponent has somehow managed to kick 4 drop goals or two penalties goals) That to me is far fairer than golden point because it's a test of both attack and defence rather than monotous drive towards the sticks and attempting drop goals.



I mean if a Cup Final was ever decided by a golden point basically because one side had won the toss of a coin got the ball first and chipped it over then to me that would totally spoil what had been a close fought game. It just isn't a fair rule.



For me though I don't see what was wrong with replays.

2 Cas fans for, 1 against. Hardly representative is it though?



FWIW, I agree with TB.

I was there today...and i loved it!

But at the same time, i think League games should end as draws with a point for both teams.

My thoughts are that Golden Point is stupid and have always thought this, it leads to a drop goal race and a penalty can win you the game.



So what about a Golden Try rule? This makes the teams work with skill and forces defences to be at their best. Give them 15 minutes instead of just 10. The coin toss to see who starts the game is a fair way of doing it or go Rock Paper Scissors!!!!

Golden point, even if I was watching it through my fingers....

Personally i prefer the idea of replays to golden point (maybe have golden point if the replay is undecided after 80 mins), so now thats 50/50 for cas fans.

I agree with this, golden point should be the last resort

I had forgotten about those, oh the joy of a replay in Whitehaven on a cold February Tuesday, those were the days

not often i agree with one of the 70 million + kr fans out there but a golden try would be much fairer way to settle the game

Yeah, I thought yesterday that it suddenly becomes a drop goal comp. We are lucky in Briers that we have somebody who is pretty good at it (although he made hard work of it yesterday!) but not everybody does and it shifts the focus away from tries which is what Rl is all about.



It is very interesting and exciting, and the forwards battle always comes to the forefront during this period (the reason we won was the two props we had), but I'd rather have seen them play for 10, giving KR the chance to come back at us.

Golden try is a nice idea. makes it more competitive than 5 drives in centre field and shaping for the drop goal.