Rugby Union 21/22/23 Discussion | RWC time!

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Great finish, few Tongans will be disappointed in themselves.
 
Hansen needs to be sent back to Australia.
 
londonredmaniac said:
Maybe just how long it's been in? Sort of built into the culture?
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I think it’s also to do with the more black and white rules within rugby. It’s easier to apply the VAR.

Football is still a contact sport but it’s rules are much more fluffy around what makes a foul a foul, and it’s these grey areas are the ones that cause such controversy. Football just seems a lot more subjective.
 
Camy89 said:
I think it’s also to do with the more black and white rules within rugby. It’s easier to apply the VAR.

Football is still a contact sport but it’s rules are much more fluffy around what makes a foul a foul, and it’s these grey areas are the ones that cause such controversy. Football just seems a lot more subjective.
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Yeah, I think that’s it.
 
Camy89 said:
I think it’s also to do with the more black and white rules within rugby. It’s easier to apply the VAR.

Football is still a contact sport but it’s rules are much more fluffy around what makes a foul a foul, and it’s these grey areas are the ones that cause such controversy. Football just seems a lot more subjective.
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The laws aren't that black and white, the difference is that the IRB gives clear interpretations every year, everyone knows that on January 1st a new set of rules/interpretations have been implemented and everyone can adapt. In Football everything is secretive and half arsed, they also change interpretations randomly during the season.
 
JPRouve said:
The laws aren't that black and white, the difference is that the IRB gives clear interpretations every year, everyone knows that on January 1st a new set of rules/interpretations have been implemented and everyone can adapt. In Football everything is secretive and half arsed, they also change interpretations randomly during the season.
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Plus regular reviews and the referees walking each team through what they expect before the game. There's a huge amount of effort put into making the rules as clear as possible.
 
unchanged_lineup said:
Plus regular reviews and the referees walking each team through what they expect before the game. There's a huge amount of effort put into making the rules as clear as possible.
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Aye, the transparency helps, as does the culture of respect for the officials. It's not as adversarial. Mistakes are just that.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
There’s that inconsistency. Wayne Barnes couldn’t wait to send off an Irish player. Any chance at all. Wales would have had to kill a man to get a yellow in the same scenario vs Fiji.
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Well they did concede 3 quick penalties in a short time, that many in that time in that area of the pitch will/should result in penalising.

The Wales game was a farce.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
:lol: Join the dark side. It’s my number one football coping mechanism these days. Have you bought your “Sexton 10” shirt yet?
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Oh god no.

also random one but I actually thought that energia Advert was quite funny and clever the first time I saw it. Not so much after the thousandth fecking time.
 
unchanged_lineup said:
Plus regular reviews and the referees walking each team through what they expect before the game. There's a huge amount of effort put into making the rules as clear as possible.
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True and unless I'm mistaken rugby teams spend a longer time of their preparation with actual referees. I know that french and Kiwi teams do it a lot, I assume that it's the same in the other major nations.
 
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