Discipline played a factor for the Glen Innes Magpies team in their round seven loss to the ladder leading Armidale Rams on Sunday.
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Country Rugby League released a set of rules for league tag this year which has resulted in playing styles having to be altered by teams.
Injured Glen Innes captain Amelia Tunamena said the Magpies girls struggled to come to terms with some of the laws in their 22-8 defeat to Armidale.
"A few calls didn't go our way and league tag, the rules are always changing and you have got to be really disciplined with all these new rules," she said.
"We gave them four penalties in a row and then Hayley Ford scored off it.
"It was just the discipline in giving away too many penalties.
"We couldn't get a roll on because we were forever getting pulled up.
"It was just a bit clunky."
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Penalties aside, Tunamena wasn't too disappointed in the performance of the Magpies girls.
The team has introduced a handful of new players stepping up from junior level and Tunamena said they are going through a rebuilding process.
"I said at the start of the year we are going to be the team that improves week after week and we have," she said.
"We are not going to run out there with the same team we have had for the last five years which has made every grand final.
"We are happy to sit back a little and rebuild with these younger girls and improve.
"They are coming through and they are just unreal."