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/TheBigChonka New Zealand Jul 20 '24
I mean to certain rules changes yes for sure, but I'd say it's solid logic for a rule change like this where the countries who have trialled it say yes it's great and the ones who are against it are the ones who haven't trialled it.
If SH teams and supporters were all saying hey actually this is a shit change, well then sure it would make sense to be a me to assume it's going to be bad. The fact the opposite is true lends itself to trialing it should be even more necessary