Four new laws - including conversion shot clocks and less penalising of crooked line-out throws - will be introduced into the game worldwide from January.

All about speeding up the game. The bigest culprit right now is the whistle however. Given the size of the bokkes forwards, anything to speed them up is a good idea. But I’m still dissapointed not to see at least 2 backs mandated on the bench, or a cut to it.

To reduce the whistle it might be time to warn specific players. One warning for giving away a penalty and then a yellow card. Might be funny to see teams at 10 players

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Does that include stopping teams like Ireland and others from driving round the side of the ruck, flopping on the ball and pushing the 9 out of the way? How can that not be “playing the 9”?

    • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      58 minutes ago

      Yup, was trialled during Super Rugby and the 9 basically becomes a protected species; effectively you can’t get in their way, drag them in, push them out, interfere with getting the ball away at all.

      At times it felt like it was going too far but did make for cleaner ball and more play, less of the dumb stuff that just interrupts the action.