Delaney is hoping to guide Nottingham to promotion this season

Nottingham director of rugby Glenn Delaney is relishing the change that the new rugby laws could bring to the domestic game.

Experimental Law Variations (ELVs) have been brought in this season in the hope of producing a more exciting style of rugby in the English leagues.

And after two games of the new season, it's "so far, so good" for Delaney.

"Hopefully they're going to mean that there's more running rugby and more tries," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.

The Green and Whites followed a disappointing opening day defeat at Leeds with a convincing victory over Plymouth on Sunday, and Delaney feels his squad have adapted quickly to the changes in the sport.

Delaney added: "The game's settling down now as we always thought it would, so the laws aren't really a factor any more."

The new rulebook includes a law which allows defending teams to pull down mauls, which will inevitably affect teams like Nottingham, who used the 'catch-and-drive' technique so effectively last season to produce tries.

An overview of some of the new laws Defending teams can legally ground a driving maul There is no upper limit on numbers in line-outs Backlines must stay five metres behind scrums The corner flag is now part of the playing field, and no longer in touch

However, of the five tries they scored in Sunday's 43-19 win over Plymouth, not one included a driving maul, and Delaney thinks his players can now show a much wider range of skills.

"A lot of people had questions over us, whether we could score tries without the driven maul, and I think we've answered that," said Delaney.

"I think people thought we were one dimensional, but we did that because we were good at it. We're moving and evolving the game, and I think (the Plymouth game) showed that".

The ELVs have been in operation in the southern hemisphere's Super 14 since February, but have only been introduced to the English club game for the start of this season.