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World Rugby announce law changes (www.world.rugby)

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New law changes confirmed by World Rugby and new law trials announced.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

the prevalence of kick tennis, lack of space, slow ball from the caterpillar ruck, use of technology, and set-piece dead time.

Well at least I'm in agreement with them about the problems to be solved. Let's hope it works!

Removing the option to select a scrum from a free kick is the one I find strange.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah I thought they were initially only going to do it on claimed free-kicks - ie catching the ball on the full in your 22m; but I suspect limiting it to that might have required more complicated and potentially ambiguous wording.

At the end of the day I don't think there's much to fear here, teams with bad scrums will still get penalised & you can still opt for a re-scrum from a penalty.