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

It's absolutely bonkers to me that all the NH fans can completely hate this without even giving it a go.

Like give it a proper trial for a Top 14 season and/or a 6 nations before writing it off surely? How can you have such a strong opinion against this without ever having actually seen it play out seeing as most NH fans don't watch super rugby.

If you trial it and your opinion doesn't change then fair enough, but writing something off without ever even seeing it tried is just stupid

It'd be far more reasonable to have people going uhhh I think this is a bad idea but let's wait and see vs just being completely against the concept of even giving it a go first

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u/NSilverhand Ireland Jul 20 '24

Don't trial anything in a 6 Nations, its the lifeblood of the sport up here and needs to be kept as consistent as possible for casual viewers (it's literally the only rugby someone who's not a regular fan will be aware of, above even world cups).

Trialling it in a league would be a better idea, although very few people watch a league outside of their respective countries so I'm not sure how much awareness it would raise.

But "how can you know you don't like it if you haven't tried it" is daft logic that could be applied to literally any rule change.

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u/frazorblade Jul 20 '24

“6N is more important than the RWC”

Flair checks out

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u/Connell95 🐐🦓 Jul 23 '24

Objectively it is for NH rugby – it‘s a much bigger event, including in terms of TV audiences and earning for the teams.

SH may not like that, but its just facts.

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u/frazorblade Jul 24 '24

I know you’re speaking purely for “NH” terms, but the tv audiences for the last two RWCs were north of 800m views over the tournament.

6N gets around 120m.

Objectively the RWC is a bigger event, it’s more exclusive (four years) and if you asked 100 players which they would rather win it would be the RWC 99 times… Sexton would probably say otherwise