World Rugby wants a more watchable, safer product.
WORLD RUGBY WANTS the sport to be sexier and safer, so they’ve come up with a series of law tweaks they hope will broaden its appeal and reduce injuries.
This means that when the ball is playable at the back of a ruck and the referee tells the team in possession to use it, they have to do so within five seconds. If they don’t, it’s a scrum turnover to the opposition. Tweaking the law The next step for World Rugby is voting on a series of law adjustments that could move to a ‘global trial’ level, meaning across the entire game.
The 20-minute red card has strong support from the likes of New Zealand and Australia, with the argument being that red cards can ‘ruin games’ as a contest. The other side of the coin is the argument that dangerous foul play has to be severely sanctioned, particularly as rugby deals with huge concerns over concussion.
The council is also set to vote through a law tweak that will close the ‘Dupont Law’ loophole, as has already happened in Super Rugby. The farcical scenes in Scotland’s clash with France during the Six Nations have sped up this process. Some of the suggestions are interesting. One of them is that if a throw into the lineout isn’t straight but the opposition doesn’t get into the air to contest, then it’s play on.
The thinking with this possible change is that teams wouldn’t kick off long into their opponent’s half, where the other team would field the ball and go into their ‘exit’ routine that concludes with a box kick.Teams taking restarts would be encouraged to go shorter, probably competing to win the ball back, and there might be more exciting exchanges of play as a result.
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