Try Conversions?

[Rossm]

Can someone please explain to me the apparent obsession with converting a try after we had scored our third try and did not need the 2 points from Cips (actually excellent) conversion? The whole thing took nearly a minute of valuable time. A quick attempted drop and then get the ball back in play surely?

[Chilham]

I was thinking the same.  Made no difference if we converted or not, so why bother?

[Vespula Vulgaris]

It's an interesting point.  I guess the rationale would be points difference if it came down to it.

[wasps]

I think it's more a case of what is ingrained into everyone.
you score a try and then you take a conversion.

In the heat of battle, it's very rare for someone to go completely against the norm.
And if they do, half the time they'll make crazy, poor decisions.


If it became a "thing" that quick drop goals were being taken after trys with very little chance of success, I suspect that we'd see a law change to ban it
(even though it achieves more in field ball time, which is what the powers that be are after)

[Rossm]

Time and place. After our third try yesterday, when we badly wanted a fourth and didn't need 2 points for anything. Is it in fact obligatory to attempt to convert a try? In yesterday's circumstances why not pass on the conversion and just go straight to the restart?

[Vespula Vulgaris]

I'd guess that the 2 points were pretty much guaranteed, and we'd been trying for the try for some time and not getting it.  Yes a try would have been better, but taking those extra two did us no harm.

[Rossm]

However, it potentially did do us harm. In so much as it took about a minute off the clock which could have been better used to attempt to get a fourth try.