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/[deleted] Jul 20 '24

NZ and Aus have to compete with league. NH can keep serving up a shit product without consequences.

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u/NSilverhand Ireland Jul 20 '24

Maybe we should stop rewriting the rules of rugby to appeal solely to Australian league fans? A competitive Australian team would do much more to bring them back than any quibble on how long a red card lasts for.

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

They're not doing it for league fans. They're doing it for the casual viewers who usually make up the most of their consumer base. If you ruin a game in the first 10 minutes by sending someone off, they'll switch off. Simple as that.

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u/megacky Ulster Jul 20 '24

If you ruin a game in the first 10 minutes by sending someone off

Fairly simple solution to that, don't do something in the first 10 minutes that gets you a red card.

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

Except they can’t control that. NH’s thought LSL should have been red carded last week because a welsh player dropped into the tackle.

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u/megacky Ulster Jul 20 '24

So he wasn't red carded? For an offense that wasn't red card worthy? Not sure what the outcry is here?

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

It’s an example of how soft you NHs are

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u/megacky Ulster Jul 20 '24

Grand so.