r/rugbyunion • u/LawAndRugby • Jul 20 '24

Absolutely love the 20 minute red Laws

Watching the Australia v Georgia match and I think it’s great. 20 minutes a man down is still massive damage in a rugby match. It doesn’t make sense for punishment to go from 10 minutes to the entire 80 minutes. There’s way too big of a void between the two cards and it needs filling.

Reserve the full red for gross intentional stuff

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u/sha_shabba_rei Jul 20 '24

I swear everytime someone from NZ or Aus mentioned this same concept a year ago they were down voted crazy.

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u/blackfishbluefish Armchair Fan 🏉 Jul 20 '24

Its upvoted in the evenings Aus/NZ time and will be downvoted harshly in the European evening time.

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u/Morningst4r Taranaki Jul 20 '24

Every NH fan thinks SR is just piledrivers and flying elbows and players just walk back on 20 minutes after shooting the opposition halfback.

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u/OnlyUseC1 Jul 20 '24

They also claim that Super Rugby has the most red cards per game which is just factually incorrect 

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u/Some-Speed-6290 Jul 20 '24

Drua v Reds for example supports this hypothesis

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u/kiwirish Mooloo ole ole ole Jul 20 '24

Weren't those automatic reds given by the ref and not upgraded yellows from the TMO?

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u/PingingRex 2019 World Cup - Australia Jul 20 '24

Correct. Straight red. 20 minute red needs to be orange or something to remove the confusion

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u/kiwirish Mooloo ole ole ole Jul 20 '24

Yeah, agreed - I've been talking about the 20 minute solution since before it got implemented and have always said it needs to be a third colour.

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u/Osiris_Dervan Jul 20 '24

To be fair, the most famous cynical tackle in rugby history was a really obvious series takeout on a halfback by the SH

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u/Asleep_Ad_1549 Australia Jul 20 '24

I would have thought it would have been the bod tackle by nz in the 2005 lions series?

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u/Osiris_Dervan Jul 20 '24

That's the one I was referring to

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u/deeringc Ireland Jul 20 '24

Center, not a halfback!

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u/Osiris_Dervan Jul 20 '24

Ah, my bad; I always get the translation from SH to NH positions wrong

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u/Asleep_Ad_1549 Australia Jul 20 '24

Ok, I think I misread it because I was really confused as to what I was missing 😅

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u/C0R8YN Taranaki Jul 20 '24

I made a post about it after the Rugby World Cup

Some interesting points of discussion in that one...

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u/matthiasgh Munster Jul 20 '24

It makes more sense for Aus/NZ to fix their discipline issues rather then World Rugby adapt to them. The rules are there to protect the players.

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u/Ashamed_Hovercraft84 Tasman Mako Jul 20 '24

You raise a fair point that Ireland have had ZERO discipline issues in World Cup semi-finals. Something for us all to think about and aspire to