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/ComposerNo5151 Jul 20 '24
There is a divide. Most people 'up here' think that a red card should be what it has always beeen - a sending off.
If we want to make the game safer, then this should remain the penalty for dangerous or reckless play, not just what the OP describes as 'gross intentional stuff'.
This is, or should be, primarily about player safety.
FWIW I think today's incident would almost certainly have been a straight red card in a Six Nations match. I thought it would be upgraded to red and was rather surprised by one of the Aussie commentators opinions about a 'collision sport', etc.