Law trials and changes
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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.
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@mikethesnow said in Law trials and changes:
@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
Not at all. But when you've already had two or three resets, then do something illegal enough to warrant a free kick why have a situation where the team awarded the sanction gets minimal benefit?
Allow them to kick to the corner to set up a mail. Just like in league ...
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"I don't understand" - Nigel Owens slams stupid law trial being introduced by World Rugby - Ruck
Popular former referee Nigel Owens has made his feelings on the 20-minute red card law trial clear in his latest column for the Telegraph.
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@bones interesting, the headline got me, as I think the 20 minute rule is good, but he sees the problem is more with some of the red cards being issued under current rules.
Pretty much agree with everything he said in the article though.
“Well, my response would be that if a player is unlucky to be sent off, then he shouldn’t be sent off.
“Red cards should be for total acts of recklessness or thuggery – if you come running in from a distance with your arm by your side and your shoulder slams into the head or neck area of a defenceless player, for example. That is dangerous play.
“Whereas if someone is very unlucky – you tried to make a legal tackle but the timing was wrong, or you try to clear someone out but you slip at the last minute or the player moves – then that player should not be sent off, because there are mitigating factors which make the contact accidental.”
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@taniwharugby yeah I don't like the ruck site, but the article seemed worth a read for once (if you ignore the headline).
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@taniwharugby said in Law trials and changes:
@bones interesting, the headline got me, as I think the 20 minute rule is good, but he sees the problem is more with some of the red cards being issued under current rules.
Pretty much agree with everything he said in the article though.
“Well, my response would be that if a player is unlucky to be sent off, then he shouldn’t be sent off.
“Red cards should be for total acts of recklessness or thuggery – if you come running in from a distance with your arm by your side and your shoulder slams into the head or neck area of a defenceless player, for example. That is dangerous play.
“Whereas if someone is very unlucky – you tried to make a legal tackle but the timing was wrong, or you try to clear someone out but you slip at the last minute or the player moves – then that player should not be sent off, because there are mitigating factors which make the contact accidental.”
The problem IMO is that's not how it's being applied.
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@booboo said in Law trials and changes:
@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
I think that is a good proposal.
I would go for the non kicking team throwing in so the remedy to the offence is essentially a free kick. Coincidentally that is the name of the restart already.
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World Rugby seeks to expand controversial 20-minute red card trial
World Rugby will consider introducing the 20-minute red card as a global law trial despite concerns it could diminish the deterrent effect.
