The Rugby Thread

[Buzzo]

That one a bit easier to officiate. Yellow every day of the week.

[Irishnev]

And breathe

[Buzzo]

And breathe

Congrats! Well deserved for this team.

[Irishnev]

Grand slam!!!!!!

[RichC]

That one a bit easier to officiate. Yellow every day of the week.

That was soft as well tbh but I’m not sure either card will have had much effect on the result.

Father in law will be looking down on this result

Well done Ireland, we’ll deserved

[Mark79]

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[Irishnev]

https://twitter.com/rpetty80/status/1637169506765230085

Watch us fail to get out of the WC group now

Our u-20s just won back to back grand slams today, strong conveyor belt

[Buzzo]

Interesting - from the Guardian.

The direction of travel is going only one way. The legal tackle height will come down at both professional and amateur level – the RFU’s shambolic handling of its grassroots law change will come to be seen as but a bump in the road in the fullness of time – and World Rugby cannot do anything to the laws that could be interpreted as anything other than zero tolerance over head contact. That said, there is another law trial taking place in Super Rugby whereby a yellow card is awarded and the offending player is put on “report” for incidents that are not cut and dry even after initial replays. A TMO then has eight minutes to review the incident in depth and can instruct the referee to upgrade the yellow card to a 20-minute red-card. That means the offending player cannot return but can be replaced after 20 minutes, while straight red cards can still be shown for serious acts of foul play. This is the latest guise of the 20-minute red card trial in the southern hemisphere but its previous iteration was rejected by World Rugby’s council for a global trial last year. Rejected because ultimately, the northern hemisphere – in which two unions are the subject of lawsuits – has not been keen on the idea, even if the “report” system is likely to be reviewed and considered for further rollout after the World Cup, as per the previous iteration.

[Irishnev]

Interesting - from the Guardian.

Rugby without the physicality will lose a lot but I get the safety aspect. There is till inconsistency though - the red for England was a red by the letter of the law but equally unlucky/harsh yet the French prop (Antonio) did much worse vs us and only a yellow

Long gone are the days of Jerry Collins poleaxing people!

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[Buzzo]

Or Tuilagi. Wonder what sort of ban you’d get for this nowadays?

[ame="https://youtu.be/4WcvUrNuZ4U"]Tuilagi punch HD - YouTube[/ame]

[Irishnev]

Or Tuilagi. Wonder what sort of ban you’d get for this nowadays?

Tuilagi punch HD - YouTube

I forgot about that - he’s a thug

[RichC]

And the ridiculous red has been rescinded.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/65035837

[Buzzo]

Hope this leads to some speedy pre WC reform. There are some perfectly acceptable and innovative ideas around about how to manage this kind of situation in game, they just need implemented. As things stand, that was the correct decision given the protocols, it just ignores the fact that there is a potential for accidental 'non Rugby incident' collisions.

[RichC]

I don't think the result would have been any different tbh but the match was ruined as a spectacle.

As you say let's hope there's a bit of common sense implemented pre WC

[Buzzo]

I think even for Ireland they want to beat a team playing with XV. Rugby is not a sport where you typically look for unfair advantage.

Was properly looking at the WC draw yesterday. It’s really favourable for England got to be looking at Semi Final at least. A lot of work for Borthwick to do, but all very achievable with the games in front of him.

I’d absolutely love for us to be in that half of the draw FFS