NRL
3 hours ago
Parker: NRL has to get rid of golden point
By Corey Parker
Off the back of the weekend’s action over there in Vegas, does the NRL golden point need an overhaul?
Stephen Crichton kicked a field goal to help the Bulldogs beat the Dragons 15-14 in golden point thriller in Vegas.
I don't want to see golden point after two teams have duked it out for 80 minutes.
If you want to go down that path, go extra time.
In 2015, when we lost the grand final, remember the JT field goal, that was golden point.
After that year, they changed the rules so that in a grand final it's now extra time, then into golden point.
I want to see that in regular games.
I want extra time in normal games, not golden point, but it it does stay the same and go to golden point teams should get their captain's challenge back.
If the NRL decides that we're going to stick with a golden point then we have to reset everything.
Personally, I think Golden Point needs to go.
I'm a big advocate that we need a winner in a match, we don’t want draws.
Currently it feels like they play an amazing game then you’ve got to get to dinner so we better quickly get an end to this game so ‘play golden point bang, let's go’.
I’m not happy with the way that it's played or the way it's refereed because the game completely changes.
For 80 minutes you watch these teams going bang, bang, bang, and then all of a sudden, golden points on, and it's like a quick game of something, it's played differently.




