Law trials and changes
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really disappointed i wasn't allowed to talk about red cards
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@mariner4life said in Law trials and changes:
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really disappointed i wasn't allowed to talk about red cards
I moaned in the comments about that.
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Mine: I don't believe player welfare has been improved in any of these rule changes. I believe that there is a differentiation between accidental or incidental contact that should not be treated the same as what is traditionally understood to be foul play. Further that the product is being ruined as game altering decisions are being made subjectively and haphazardly diminishing the attractiveness of the professional game. Instead World Rugby is ignoring evidence based approaches in reducing the incidence of head injuries. The stand down period for suspected concussions should be longer. Players should be placed on a report system for all but serious, deliberate acts of foul play just like after match citations and the appropriate sanctions should have increased severity.
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An interesting consequence or two from the goal line drop out trial up north.
Catch and send back a droppie at goal with no pressure on.
Having big players charge back at speed setting up a huge collision.
The rebirth of the drop goal? Dan Robson's strike highlights quirk in goal-line dropout law trial
Receiving teams are being presented with the chance to reply to dropouts with long-range drop goal attempts
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@crucial said in Law trials and changes:
An interesting consequence or two from the goal line drop out trial up north.
Catch and send back a droppie at goal with no pressure on.
Having big players charge back at speed setting up a huge collision.
The rebirth of the drop goal? Dan Robson's strike highlights quirk in goal-line dropout law trial
Receiving teams are being presented with the chance to reply to dropouts with long-range drop goal attempts
In fairness kicking the ball from your own goal line instead of defending a 5m scrum is still a huge win.
If the kick is poor (too long) and the returning drop kick is good that's the problem with coaching & execution,not the laws.
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@mikethesnow yeah I get that just pointing out unintended consequences from the change.
I don’t think anyone wants to see a drop out caught and drop kicked back as a shot being “standard”. That’s kind of farcical.
I guess if it means drop outs to the sides that result it attacks down the flanks….Of course the kicking team has to be careful as a ball out on the full offers the options of a 5 metre scrum or lineout and we are back to the old outcome.
Personally I just don’t like the disincentive for attacking sides to try and score.
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I can't read the article, but the tweet seems to suggest that the author thinks that a red card only has a deterrent effect if you punish the entire team and the spectators (because a game is ruined if there's a red card early in the game).
I read/hear this a lot from NH writers and fans.
The whole point of a 20-minute red card is that you still have an attractive game and the deterrent is in the suspension of the player afterwards. A suspension can seriously affect a player, still challenges a team because it requires depth, but it doesn't ruin it as much for fans.
That's, by the way, also why I don't think - as some have suggested on the Fern - that you should differentiate between intentional/dirty acts leading to a red card (not 20 minutes according to some) and accidental acts (20 minutes). The difference should solely be in the suspension, not in the consequence for the game.
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The bit I don't get is that while the rule makers concede that split second decisions in a dynamic situation can make it difficult for 'transgressors' and they have some sympathy, they also claim that the sanctions will change behaviours. Same goes for the tweet quote above where the implication is that the stronger the punishment the less it will happen.
I see very little correlation between the two. Maybe many head contacts are being prevented through technique coaching but you cant measure what doesnt happen. -
@crucial said in Law trials and changes:
Personally I just don’t like the disincentive for attacking sides to try and score.
I get what you are saying but that's the wrong choice of words. There is no change to the incentive for scoring, you need to score to win the game. The change is in what happens if you fail to score.
Just speaking just about the 'held up' result: There's a slightly larger penalty for failing to score and being held up. Conversely there's a slightly larger reward for the defence in holding people up
I'd like to know the percentages on which type of attacks resulted in a held up. I would assume the majority would be short range pick and goes or splinters from a maul?
One of the thing I dislike about rugby in recent years is how teams fall into very predictable patterns. If you are 5m out, it's time to just pick and go.. two passes wide is too risky unless you have advantage.
If I'm correct about pick and goes often leading to a held up, perhaps that can make the standard option slightly more risky and encourage more variety? Hard to say without seeing all the stats after a period of time.When the ball is held up by just a defender or two (not the whole pack) often thats a difficult play to execute. I don't have a problem with it getting more reward
I have more of an issue with the ball kicked into the in-goal being a drop out.
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@mikethesnow said in Law trials and changes:
In fairness kicking the ball from your own goal line instead of defending a 5m scrum is still a huge win.
If the kick is poor (too long) and the returning drop kick is good that's the problem with coaching & execution,not the laws.
Yes, execute better and the drop goal won't be available
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@duluth said in Law trials and changes:
@crucial said in Law trials and changes:
Personally I just don’t like the disincentive for attacking sides to try and score.
I get what you are saying but that the wrong choice of words. There is no change to the incentive for scoring, you need to score to win the game. The change is in what happens if you fail to score.
Just speaking just about the 'held up' result: There's a slightly larger penalty for failing to score and being held up. Conversely there's a slightly larger reward for the defence in holding people up
I'd like to know the percentages on which type of attacks resulted in a held up. I would assume the majority would be short range pick and goes or splinters from a maul?
One of the thing I dislike about rugby in recent years is how teams fall into very predictable patterns. If you are 5m out, it's time to just pick and go.. two passes wide is too risky unless you have advantage.
If I'm correct about pick and goes often leading to a held up, perhaps that can make the standard option slightly more risky and encourage more variety? Hard to say without seeing all the stats after a period of time.When the ball is held up by just a defender or two (not the whole pack) often thats a difficult play to execute. I don't have a problem with it getting more reward
I have more of an issue with the ball kicked into the in-goal being a drop out.
Agree on all counts. When I feel like the balance has tipped too far is the situations where an attempt to score is obviously over the line but grounding can't be seen. The attacking team goes from being dominant and crossing the try line to having to receive a kick 40 out.
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@duluth said in Law trials and changes:
One of the thing I dislike about rugby in recent years is how teams fall into very predictable patterns. If you are 5m out, it's time to just pick and go.. two passes wide is too risky unless you have advantage.
IIRC one of the reasons given for trialing this new law was to encourage teams to play with more width when near the goal line instead of pick and goes. That's on the coaches and players to make those adjustments instead of reverting to type.
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The free kick.
Why?
Serious question.
I know it goes back in history and is for "technical" infringements (... even League used to have it's version of the "differential penalty" for scrum infringements ... not that you could ever tell what wasn't penalisable ...).
What pisses me off is that when it is an escalation of sanction following multiple scrum resets it results in a scrum reset.
Been floated before, but how about we allow a free kick to be kicked to touch like a penalty, or even at the very least allow it to be kicked out on the full even if the oppositon get the throw?
No.1 in the Laws I would change.
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@nzzp said in Law trials and changes:
Prediction: every goal line drop out up the middle gets hit back as an attempted drop goal. At the end of the season the law gets changed
Kick shorter or chase better
If it becomes a real problem they’ll say no drop goal until there’s a breakdown
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@bones said in Law trials and changes:
@booboo I thought the PK is at the ref's discretion after one or two FK? It can be kicked out on the full, do you mean the lineout should be taken where it went out? Quite like that.
I believe FK can escalate to PK for repeated infringements. But why wait?
Yes my proposal is to allow the FK to be kicked to touch on the full (currently not allowed outside the
22).My preference is for the team kicking to touch getting the throw. But if that is too much of a change then allow the FK to be kicked out in the full regardless of where it is awarded and let 5he oppo throw.
Just thinking about ways of avoiding the scrum reset
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@booboo said in Law trials and changes:
Yes my proposal is to allow the FK to be kicked to touch on the full (currently not allowed outside the
22).The ball can be kicked direct to touch. You just lose possession and the lineout is taken where you kicked it.
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@booboo said in Law trials and changes:
@bones said in Law trials and changes:
Just thinking about ways of avoiding the scrum reset
League here we come
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@bones said in Law trials and changes:
@booboo said in Law trials and changes:
Yes my proposal is to allow the FK to be kicked to touch on the full (currently not allowed outside the
22).The ball can be kicked direct to touch. You just lose possession and the lineout is taken where you kicked it.
Semantics.
