Thank goodness. In the past week league aimed a shot at its own foot and missed!

Seven weeks into what has been a super season, the men with the whistles went mad but the game broke back out of the asylum.

Never have I seen a more lunatic interpretation of the rules, as that applied by the referees to the obstruction issue in last week’s round. Three legitimate tries disallowed in one game (Warriors/Rabbitohs) must be some sort of (dubious) record. Add to that the similar problem in the Manly/Cowboys game, and I, like others, was wondering what the hell was going on.

All this at a time when rugby’s television audiences are plummeting because rah-rah fans are sick of the confusion around the tackled ball, and the interpretation of the scrum rules.

It looked like league was attempting to hand the rugby boys a get-out-of-jail-free card by devising its own equivalent of the hysterical "crouch-touch-pause-engage" routine.

But I’m pleased to see that league officials are still genuinely driven by a wish to create consistent, simple, easy-to-understand football entertainment.

By Tuesday morning, NRL referees boss Robert Finch had called all the coaches together in a telephone linkup and the new interpretation of the obstruction law was cast into the rubbish with the unlimited tackle rule and the raking-at-the-play-the-ball regulations.

Can you imagine that situation happening in rugby?

Lunatic laws are obviously turning people off the 15-man game in droves, but these rules will continue and will almost certainly ruin the World Cup this year because the boof-heads who run the game will need to see its popularity in the pits before they do something about it.

My concern is that league let itself get into this obstruction confusion in the first place. And don’t get me wrong, the game is still nowhere near perfect.

The Warriors weren’t the only aggrieved side in Sunday’s clash.

I thought the Rabbitohs were hard done by with one of their disallowed tries. But the curious thing for me is that referees were allowing the same decoy runner plays at the other end of the field. The argument that it is not as effective as in a try-scoring movement was merely adding to the confusion and frustration for fans.

So, it’s now back to the same as last year, which should settle things down.

It’s pleasing that the NRL has admitted it made a mistake and has acted quickly to rectify it.

Sporting administrators are famous for sitting on their hands and hoping problems will go away.