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What can WR do about Red Cards ruining games for the fans?
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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 908485" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>I wholeheartedly applaud this exercise, it's the type of radical thinking that World Rugby don't seem willing (or able) to engage in. It's a lot to take in and think though at once, but on first reading, here goes....</p><p></p><p> - I agree with the comments on yellow cards, what's proposed is potentially too lenient - if the attacking team scores a try straight away from a play that the yellow carded player would have had no influence over (e.g. a pushover try while a winger is off the field), then that player has effectively received no harsher sanction than a penalty.</p><p></p><p> - I like the idea of breaking down offences into intentional / dangerous / unfair, it provides everyone with greater clarity. Re: unfair play, I'm not sure that I follow the last bullet point. Out of the examples given, I'm struggling to see what "unfair play" offences aren't by their nature intentional. If ruck offences are included in this category, I can follow it as it's possible to accidentally get into a position in which you can't help giving up a penalty.</p><p></p><p> - I suspect that reaction from a wider, less informed community would be that it's a bad idea from a safety point of view to reduce the existing sanctions, but I don't see that this is a problem, they're still sufficiently harsh as to act as a deterrent to the same degree in my opinion.</p><p></p><p> - These ideas are laudable, but are treating the symptoms, not the cause. Saying that, I can't offer any silver bullet solutions, so maybe what we have now is as good as things can get, but it seems incredible to me that international players like Benjamin Fall are still putting themselves and their teams into situations like yesterday's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 908485, member: 58362"] I wholeheartedly applaud this exercise, it's the type of radical thinking that World Rugby don't seem willing (or able) to engage in. It's a lot to take in and think though at once, but on first reading, here goes.... - I agree with the comments on yellow cards, what's proposed is potentially too lenient - if the attacking team scores a try straight away from a play that the yellow carded player would have had no influence over (e.g. a pushover try while a winger is off the field), then that player has effectively received no harsher sanction than a penalty. - I like the idea of breaking down offences into intentional / dangerous / unfair, it provides everyone with greater clarity. Re: unfair play, I'm not sure that I follow the last bullet point. Out of the examples given, I'm struggling to see what "unfair play" offences aren't by their nature intentional. If ruck offences are included in this category, I can follow it as it's possible to accidentally get into a position in which you can't help giving up a penalty. - I suspect that reaction from a wider, less informed community would be that it's a bad idea from a safety point of view to reduce the existing sanctions, but I don't see that this is a problem, they're still sufficiently harsh as to act as a deterrent to the same degree in my opinion. - These ideas are laudable, but are treating the symptoms, not the cause. Saying that, I can't offer any silver bullet solutions, so maybe what we have now is as good as things can get, but it seems incredible to me that international players like Benjamin Fall are still putting themselves and their teams into situations like yesterday's. [/QUOTE]
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