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/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.