Fans, players, clubs and officials will be called on to provide feedback about rule changes as part of a “fairly significant” review by the ARL Commission.
NRL head of football Graham Annesley confirmed on Monday there would be a game-wide evaluation of the new adaptions – including the 10-metre infringement rule – with the ARL Commission to ultimately decide whether anything needs tweaking in 2022.
Other laws introduced this season have included two-point field goals outside the 40-metre line, play-the-ball restarts after the ball has gone into touch and the Bunker reviewing tries that have been awarded.
“[A review] is in the process of starting,” Annesley said.
“We want to get feedback from all of our clubs, from our players, our officials, coaches, from the general public, so we’ll be conducting some research with fans.
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“This is all under the banner of the ARLC and their responsibility to review what’s happened across the course of the season.
“[ARLC chairman] Peter V’landys has gone very public, as has [NRL CEO] Andrew Abdo, to say that everything will be reviewed at the end of the year, so we’ve put a process in place to do that.
“It’s not going to be just an internal review – everyone will have the opportunity to have their say that is a stakeholder in the game.
“I think that there is a general view that the game doesn’t need too much many more changes at this point.
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