Should drop goals b reduced from three points to one/two pts

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Visa's rugby legends (Martin Johnson, Zinzan Brooke, Joel Stransky, Philippe Sella & John Eales) debate should drop goals be reduced from three points to one or two points?

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• Rugby
• World
• Cup
• 2007
• Jonah
• Lomu
• Zinzan
• Brooke
• John
• Eales
• Martin
• Johnson
• Joel
• Stransky
• Philip

[Tehui1974]

I would keep the points the same. The only change I would like to see, and it has started to emerge already, are for blatant professional fouls to be sin binned without any warnings. If a team kills the ball when the other team is hot on attack in the opposition 22, yellow card the bastard.

[nattydred]

Mate, it's not just the English that score dropgoals. Australia got to the 1999 world cup final on a drop goal, SA won the 1995 world cup on a drop goal.

This opinion is just from the All Blacks who are far too arrogant to win matches by scoring drop goals, as evidenced when they lost to France in WC2007 by 2 points despite being camped out in French 22 for last five minutes when they could have won the game but instead wanted to go for a try.

[hobobastard]

@26aye1991 I disagree, mauls are very boring, it's just the loop hole version for the truck and trailer, they should be allowed to be collapsed after being pushed 10 meters or after 30 seconds ref should say 'use it or lose it' for time wasting, but can't be collapsed if they breach the 5 meter try line before 10 meters is up ;) lol And drop goals should be reduced to 2 points or scrapped altogether - cheap way to win. I want to see players encouraged to score trys rather than forcing penalties.

[26aye1991]

@hanros98 Try 5 and I think you have it spot on. Although I think killing attacking motions should result in yellow cards more. Stop teams going for the penalty when inside their own 22. A collapsed maul on the 5 metre line deserves a penalty try and a yellow card. Dish out the punishments and after a year or two you'll see great flowing rugby

[SonicSubstanceDOTcom]

I like hanros98's suggestion. That would be perfect in my opinion.

[schnozz87]

Points are about right, what really needs sorting out is the refereeing at the scrum and a few less yellow cards shown for strong tackles that really aren't dangerous.

[DexStanT]

Keep it as is

Drop goal at 4 is a bit much, especially when one man can score one when nothing is on from 50-70m out - it takes a lot of skill, but when you can snap a drop at almost anytime you want, one point less than a try is too much

[fransird]

@Tehui1974

100% agree with you.

[hanros98]

@hanros98 sorry mate i just give mine as well

[juanmartinhernandez0]

@hanros98 I said in my opinion

[hanros98]

@juanmartinhernandez0 it should be try 6

drop goal 2

penalty 2

conversion 1

[juanmartinhernandez0]

this is how it should be in my opinion

try : 7 pts.

drop goal : 4 pts.

penalty goal : 3 pts

convertion : 1 pt.