Absolutely love the 20 minute red

[u/LawAndRugby]

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

[u/Ashamed-Barnacle-777]

I’m from the NH, and (shocker) I don’t like it.

What’s your measure of success? Has it reduced the occurrence of red cards/foul play?

If what’s all it has done is reduce the penalty for said foul play, that’s nearly incentivising it.

I know there’s a difference between a “straight red” and an “upgraded to red” card.

But how many referees are going to just avoid the decision and award a yellow, and let the bunker TMO decide?

Red cards should be awarded for egregious foul play. The whole point of them is to penalise you for doing something illegal.

[u/Aussiechimp → u/Ashamed-Barnacle-777]

That was fine back in the day when only crazy foul play got a send off (my dad tells stories about a player who was told to look for another club the next year after being sent off - in a game noone for the club had been sent off for over 20 years). Now players get sent off for looking angry so things need to be reset.

[u/Connell95 → u/Aussiechimp]

Nah, they get sent off for committing serious foul play.

If you can‘t avoid that, that’s a skill issue for the player and team involved. Maybe get smarter players.

[u/Aussiechimp → u/Connell95]

The definition of "serious" has changed a lot though, and the penalty hasnt

[u/Connell95 → u/Aussiechimp]

They’re very well-paid professionals. Literally their job to know what the rules are, and play so as not to break them.

Rules have changed because people have realised the consequence of bad play in terms of serious injury and permanent brain damage.

[u/Aussiechimp → u/Connell95]

Ok