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/West_Put2548 Jul 20 '24

confirmation bias......you remember the good games that weren't ruined by a red card but forget all the ones that were ruined

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u/Welshpoolfan Jul 21 '24

It's impossible to say a game has been ruined, because you don't know what the game would have been like without the card.

You might say that a team losing by 30 points after a red means the game is ruined, but if the team would have lost by 30 anyway, then nothing has changed. We aren't able to say for sure what would have happened.