Sometimes the best ideas are the most simple ones.
Take the Chiefs for example.
Instead of providing the mandatory press box at their temporary home at Rotorua's International Stadium, they give the media mob a clip board each.
Why bother joining all those little panels of wood together to form a room when you can instead leave them as they are, stick a bulldog clip on top, hand the press people tickets to the grandstand, and you're away laughing. Revolutionary.
A whole series of mobile press boxes if you like, to go along with other modern gadgets like the mobile phone, even the mobile prop forward.
Which, almost inevitably, brings us to the topic of rugby rules.
So here's a simple simple solution to rugby's problems. MAKE THE FIELD BIGGER.
Because no matter how much they tinker with the rules at the international rescue conference in London, the basic problem - a lack of space on the field - will not be solved to any great degree.
The reason?
Players now are so much faster, fitter and stronger that the only gaps which appear are the ones between the ribs as these new super athletes continually smash into each other.
Watching the crash bash which dominated many of the Super 12 games so far reminded me of a story recounted by a forward of the 1980s, who recalled the test preparation an All Black of a previous generation had described to him.
The players had got together on a Thursday, swapped a few stories about the latest Massey Ferguson, then went out for their major training run.
The next day, there was a bit of fine tuning and then, with there being a division of labour in those days, the forwards formed a huddle and polished off more than a few crates of brew the night before the test.
These players had never heard of the timed 3km run, a pattern was something you had on your back after a ruck, and a turnover was full of apple.
Rugby, in a way, was rugby because of its inadequacies. There was always a lot of dross - tangled rucks and the like - where nothing really happened.
But you waited for those classic moments. Maybe it was Steve Pokere working his magic through a heap of defenders, David Campese goose stepping his way in acres of space, or Ian Kirkpatrick setting off on his famous run against the 1971 Lions.
It might also have been Bruce Robertson gliding into a gap and throwing a perfect pass to a wing, who only had one man to beat, rather than a posse of backs and forwards chasing him down armed with their latest beep test results and a clearance from their sports analyst.
Take a look at a video of the 1987 World Cup final, where one of our greatest All Blacks sides triumphed, and it is quite staggering to see how much down time there was (and how skinny the players were).
What you do remember though are the great moments, like David Kirk ducking around the blindside of a maul to set up the long range try to John Kirwan.
Those images are a thing of the past and maybe that is what many of us are slowly having to accept. The modern game still produces glorious occasions, with some of last year's test matches being examples. But there is also a lot of tedious collision rugby in the full glare of mass television coverage.
It has become a game where teams feed off errors, and the public is turning away. At Rotorua last Saturday, the home crowd seemed more interested in doing Mexican waves during the final quarter when the Chiefs were gearing up for an unexpected win over the Reds.
You have to suspect that the speed, endurance and strength levels of players will increase still further. In other words, the field is effectively going to get smaller still, especially under the new replacement rule where coaches are able to give the big hook to players as soon as they are tired.
The basic skills of the current New Zealand sides might be lacking, but those skills are of little use if there is no room to use them.
Make the field bigger? A tongue in cheek solution maybe. All a bit TOO simple. But then, where have all those super-smart technical rules taken the game?
Game in need of a larger playing field
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