Rob Louw says refs are messing up the game with red cards. Our support the refs regardless group of spineless jelly babies with be in another froth about a real rugby man like Rob Louw Soeaking out.
By the way Elon unbanned Trump and the poor censorship loving fascist lefties are in a delightful meltdown. They are getting ripped a new one on Twitter. ??????
https://twitter.com/roblouw6/status/1594005013973581827?s=20&t=9E-S-z_Hez9kN2-GcIiqjA
Refs aren't making the red card rules, they're just applying them.
Yes Pakie...WR should have a look at the card system as a whole.
Rugby is a sport of collisions. That is the basic interaction and underlying principle of the game. Collisions will never be entirely safe, so we need to discern between foul play and simple consequences of the physics of the game. It generally isn't difficult to do. There have been instances of referees showing leniency to foul play, yet picking up something innocuous as foul play: We could cite the textbook Bismarck tackle of 2013, and the numerous spear tackles the Boks got away with last year. A little common sense will suffice, and less pandering to the do gooders.
I agree with that, a sense of timing is crucial. Slow motion can make things look much worse, even premeditated. The reality may be a player had a fraction of a second to process and adjust. Of course, slow motion replay still does have its uses.
The collisions in American football make rugby look tame. These neck rolls, accidental high contact cards are way overdone. You are far more likely to get serious neck injuries from perfectly legal cleaning of fetchers.
The controllable dangerous play incidents are clothes line tackles which you hardly see any more….and taking out of the jumping receiver. Those should be red cards.
But red cards should be 10minutes off the park, with a substitute player returning. Punish the transgressor, not the team or the spectators.
Rugby has been over lawyered. The latest example is the excess use of TMOs in response to the kind of rubbish Harrassmiss has produced. Get the game back to it’s manly, free flowing roots and limit the lawyering.
