Re: Supe Rugby Law - new card protocol - review?
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2023 5:31 pm
Isn’t a permanent red reserved purely for outright thuggery.
ie the old red card
ie the old red card
Why don't they make the bans longer? I guess because players won't agree to it? But if they are serious about it, instead of weeks, they should be looking at months... so start at 6 months... not 6 weeks...sockwithaticket wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:13 pmDefinitely not and I lay the blame with coaches and players. We often see bits of social media activity from current players like Anthony Watson, Joe Marler or Jack Nowell criticising card decisions in games they're obviously watching and we had several weeks back Les Kiss moaning about a card given against London Irish in his in-game interview, saying things that indicated they still train in ways that make these incidents likely to happen.Grandpa wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 2:56 pm
We seem to be seeing more and more yellow and red cards... but are we seeing less dangerous tackles? Has Farrell changed his behaviour? Have other players? Watching Super Rugby this weekend and there were so many tackles that were mm away from head clashes...
so I'm not convinced players are actively changing their behaviour?
They all say the right things when prompted about player safety, but their actions and comments in the heat of the moment say otherwise.
They were quick enough to get rid of the lifting tackle from their repetoire, so we know they can correct behaviours if they want to, but it's clear that putting in big dominant hits and going high enough to prevent offloads is more important to them than player safety and the current sanctions for when they fuck it up are not sufficient to force a rethink.
I actually think the introduction of mitigation has made things worse. We had a couple of seasons where most hiugh shot incidents were given a red card and some of them looked really soft, but it felt like we were starting to see things change. Then World Rugby caved to the whinging from certain quarters and introduced the level of force/danger mitigations and players know they've a fairly good chance of just getting away with a yellow, which teams are very well set up to deal with in this day and age. Sometimes they still prove pivotal 10 minute periods in games, but much less frequently than they ever used to be. It's an acceptable risk to them.