Macqueen looking forward to more tries
Sydney
January 24, 2000

Wallaby coach Rod Macqueen is full of praise for the International Board's decision to immediately introduce law changes - and believes the differences will produce more tries.
"The game needed to look at itself. The way the game is played today has changed dramatically," said the World Cup winning coach who took part in the Sydney summit late last year, which proposed the changes.
The board announced the changes in Dublin on Saturday, and they will be used during the Six Nations championship and the Super 12 series, booth of which start next month.
They include the introduction of a 10-minute sin bin for offences not serious enough to warrant dismissal and changes to the laws governing tackling, scrums and lineouts.
In scrums, under a new policy of "use it or lose it," the side putting in the ball will be penalised for not making use of it. The opposition will be awarded possession at the reset scrum.
All the rule changes are designed to speed up the game and make it more attractive to spectators.
"If the sin bin was used at the World Cup, there would have been more tries. There's no doubt about that," said Macqueen. "And that's what we want to try and achieve. Scoring tries is the aim of the game, so I find that (sin bin rule) very positive.'"

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