Archive For The “Laws” Category

The Super 15 Final Most of the penalties awarded in rugby arise from infringements at scrum and whatever happens after the tackle with offside being a distant third. In both situations the range of infringements is great and the referee is seldom wrong. I suppose what we can criticize them for is a lack of […]

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When I first went to the IRB it was at the time when Super Rugby started and rugby became professional. The Super game was effected by commercially biased CEO’s in the SANZAR unions and their new-ish entourages of marketers, sports lawyers, advertisers, PR people, media liaison people, personnel trouble smoothers and hospitality people. Over the […]

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Is it fair to expect a team to use its strength to “milk” penalties to win games? Is it within the ethos of the game to have such a wide range of infringements available that the game can be won by infringement penalties? Is it within the object of the game to have such a […]

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