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What can WR do about Red Cards ruining games for the fans?
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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1093738" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>Post match penalties won't work. And we see more concussions now than we used to - a lot more, it's pretty rare to go through a test match or super rugby game without seeing one. Why? Coaching.</p><p></p><p>Coaches will coach players to be aggressive and have two men in the tackle. Coaches will also coach players to go hard at the line and win the collision. Coaches won't select players who aren't as good at these things. Therefore the after match incentive doesn't work. The incentive needs to be on the coaches. More cards creates this incentive. Not less. At the moment there are not enough, not even if reds are for the whole game. They need to make the threahold for cards lower but introduce an orange card or a black card because at the moment the difference between a yellow and something they deem worse than a yellow is too much, given the millimeters or milliseconds determining whether one occurs vs the other.</p><p></p><p>Makes more cards and fans wont complain because either cards will just become an accepted part of the game, or coaching will change drastically to the point (non yellow) cards will be rare again. Either way I think we'll see less cards due to head or shoulder contact with oppositions head. </p><p></p><p>In saying all that, tackle height trials have shown an increased prevalence of concussion because defenders are getting concussed from contact between their head and opposition hips and knees. </p><p></p><p>So who knows</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1093738, member: 65365"] Post match penalties won’t work. And we see more concussions now than we used to - a lot more, it’s pretty rare to go through a test match or super rugby game without seeing one. Why? Coaching. Coaches will coach players to be aggressive and have two men in the tackle. Coaches will also coach players to go hard at the line and win the collision. Coaches won’t select players who aren’t as good at these things. Therefore the after match incentive doesn’t work. The incentive needs to be on the coaches. More cards creates this incentive. Not less. At the moment there are not enough, not even if reds are for the whole game. They need to make the threahold for cards lower but introduce an orange card or a black card because at the moment the difference between a yellow and something they deem worse than a yellow is too much, given the millimeters or milliseconds determining whether one occurs vs the other. Makes more cards and fans wont complain because either cards will just become an accepted part of the game, or coaching will change drastically to the point (non yellow) cards will be rare again. Either way I think we’ll see less cards due to head or shoulder contact with oppositions head. In saying all that, tackle height trials have shown an increased prevalence of concussion because defenders are getting concussed from contact between their head and opposition hips and knees. So who knows [/QUOTE]
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