by Paul Cook - Of all the adopted law changes that have formed a part of the ground breaking NRC competition, the points scoring system is perhaps the one that has had the most affect on the mindset of a team and/or its coaching staff. The awarding of eight points for a converted try has unequivocally achieved its desired impact to reduce penalty shots for goal, with a mere eight attempts being made across the nine matches so far. Allowing for the fact that four of those nine games were impacted by rain – three directly and one residually - which brings a whole new and typically pragmatic approach to the game, and that we have seen a total of 72 tries – eight per game – the move can only be deemed an unmitigated success. However, if the intended by-product of a decrease in penalty shots at the posts was the reduced influence of a golden boot in a team’s armoury, the flipside has been that the advent of 3pts for a conversion, has meant that the accuracy of your goal kicker h