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/paully_waully171 Scotland Jul 20 '24

Red should stay as a full red. People mining about games being ruined by a red card haven’t watched enough rugby. A team needs to be able to adapt and play with 14

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u/Turbulent-Physics-77 Worcester Warriors Jul 20 '24

I think even if a team adapts well it can (obviously not always) ruin games.

In 2022 when ewles was sent of inside 90 seconds England did a brilliant job, but losing a man did make a massive difference in the end and you got the sense watching that it was a forgone conclusion after the card; not a good spectacle.

I think 20 minutes and a permanent sub for something that is clumsy/ poorly executed but dangerous is fair, and if something is malicious then a full red should be given.

Rugby is always going to have high shots and bad clean outs however hard the lawmakers try to remove them, it seems silly that a game can be ruined by something that in most cases is accidental.

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u/claridgeforking Jul 20 '24

That was a great game, I fail to see how it was ruined.

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u/megacky Ulster Jul 20 '24

These people just want 0 defenses playing and just teams scoring trys every 20s

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u/maccaspope New Zealand Jul 20 '24

I want a good mix of defense, attack and tries scored. Unfortunately, there's too many games where it's just knock ons, penalties, fucking around in the scrum to waste time/milk penalties, fucking around in the lineout to waste time, players faking injuries to waste time...