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<blockquote data-quote="Larksea" data-source="post: 441300" data-attributes="member: 43875"><p>the interesting thing is that if a team has the ball sitting in the back of a ruck like that their is nothing in the rules to say they have to play it at all as far as I know. If a team wanted to they could hold it at the back forever.</p><p></p><p>I'm still very concerned for the game of rugby while negative slow rugby wins over teams that want to play fast rugby, use the ball and speed up the game.</p><p></p><p>The new rule interpretations that game in seem to mean nothing now. Early on they gave the attacking team the time and protection from oposition trying to slow the ball down but over time it's pretty much gone back to they way it used to be to the point where the advantage has swung back to the defending team at breakdowns. In many cases players are being allowed to be on the wrong side and tackles are not releasing the tackled player and giving them time to play the ball. Another thing I'm seeing a lot is players being penalised for "not releasing" in situations where an oposition player has got their hands on the ball yes but the tackled player isn't actually holding the ball. Like the defender isn't actually trying to get the ball, all they do is get their hands on it to win the penalty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larksea, post: 441300, member: 43875"] the interesting thing is that if a team has the ball sitting in the back of a ruck like that their is nothing in the rules to say they have to play it at all as far as I know. If a team wanted to they could hold it at the back forever. I'm still very concerned for the game of rugby while negative slow rugby wins over teams that want to play fast rugby, use the ball and speed up the game. The new rule interpretations that game in seem to mean nothing now. Early on they gave the attacking team the time and protection from oposition trying to slow the ball down but over time it's pretty much gone back to they way it used to be to the point where the advantage has swung back to the defending team at breakdowns. In many cases players are being allowed to be on the wrong side and tackles are not releasing the tackled player and giving them time to play the ball. Another thing I'm seeing a lot is players being penalised for "not releasing" in situations where an oposition player has got their hands on the ball yes but the tackled player isn't actually holding the ball. Like the defender isn't actually trying to get the ball, all they do is get their hands on it to win the penalty. [/QUOTE]
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