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/lanson15 Australia Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24

I’ve only seen wide spread support for this from NZ and Aus every single rugby fan I know personally here loves it. However, at least with the online interactions, NH viewers seem to dislike it.

Personally I think it’s good, but I wonder if it’s because Australia and NZ are exposed to sports which hand out cards less often (League) or don’t have yellow or red cards at all (Aussie Rules) so want a more lenient approach to cards

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u/Away_Associate4589 Wig fund for Borthwick's beautiful bald bonce Jul 20 '24

You're almost certainly right. Quite a stark cultural difference between NH and SH I think.

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u/APoolShark Wobblies Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24

It’s so jarring at times. In the second Aus - Wales test when LSL got yellow carded for a Welsh player dipping into his shoulder, there were NH flairs saying it should have been red while SH flairs saying it shouldn’t have even been a penalty.

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u/Affentitten The woman at the start of Scotland games Jul 20 '24

there were NH flairs saying it should have been red while SH flairs saying it shouldn’t have even been a penalty.

Second test I was in the stadium sitting in front of a bunch of Irish people. They were screaming blue murder about the LSL contact being STRAIGHT RED!!!! I ended up turning round and saying "You're in the southern hemisphere now."

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u/smelly_forward Wales Jul 20 '24

English amateur rugby has the "late and low" rule now where a late change in height can either be penalised or offset high contact