New tackle laws from 3.1.2017

[Dave]

Rugby is dead.

F1

The Giants or F1 will be my new sport.

No they won't; you and the rest of us are hooked on rugby.The Fates have set our destiny.

I like all sport though

No, you have to only like rugby.

[againstthehead]

I fear more and more games are going to be decided by yellow and red cards. Home town crowds will have more of an influence.

[againstthehead]

Interesting yellow card to say the least.

http://www.rugbydump.com/2017/01/5518/n ... -challenge

[Snipe Watson]

Interesting yellow card to say the least.

http://www.rugbydump.com/2017/01/5518/n ... -challenge

That's a jackass decision.

[Dharper]

The famous LK choke tackle may lead to problems for Henderson and Mccloskey.

[Russ]

The famous LK choke tackle may lead to problems for Henderson and Mccloskey.

Im worried about Wilson and Ah you

[againstthehead]

Interesting yellow card to say the least.

http://www.rugbydump.com/2017/01/5518/n ... -challenge

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That's a jackass decision.

Based on that you can no longer challenge in the air. Just encourages attacking sides to boot the ball in the air and chase it as sides can no longer aford to compete. Red cards just decimate games and I can see folk being turned off rugby pretty quickly with the ways things are going.

[Russ]

Interesting yellow card to say the least.

http://www.rugbydump.com/2017/01/5518/n ... -challenge

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That's a jackass decision.

Based on that you can no longer challenge in the air. Just encourages attacking sides to boot the ball in the air and chase it as sides can no longer aford to compete. Red cards just decimate games and I can see folk being turned off rugby pretty quickly with the ways things are going.

The Dan Biggar. Always felt how he does his up and unders are extremely dangerous

[UlsterNo9]

Neither yellow cards warranted a penalty never mind a yellow.

[Rooster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HES1WJonrsk

[Snipe Watson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HES1WJonrsk

WR have opened a whole can of worms with this law. They are just shifting the point of impact rather than dealing with the problem. The other good point they make is that all the onus is on the defending player. What about the attacker acting recklessly in regard to his own safety?

[againstthehead]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HES1WJonrsk

Terrific piece Rooster, I really enjoyed that. This has the potential to turn rugby into a complete joke.

[Rooster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HES1WJonrsk

Terrific piece Rooster, I really enjoyed that. This has the potential to turn rugby into a complete joke.

Indeed and they didn't even cover the problem that Reidy had last night.
It was interesting with the penalty try that Mitrea actually signalled held up scrum 5 then the tmo brought up the tackle

[Pimpmac]

So based on the tackle that's Reidy made last night are we correct to assume going forward that all you have to do is go exceptionally low off the corner of a ruck as the Scarlett's player did and it will be a yellow card and penalty try if contact is made as Reidy did. There is no way of defending this anymore. This will become the new choke tackle scenario where teams will take advantage of a rule to force a decision there way. So we will see the advent of coaches just getting their players to start ducking into tackles to gain an advantage. This actually has the potential of making the tackle even more dangerous and potentially more head injuries as a result...

Starting to lose the will with rugby, the rule makers don't actually have a clue and are starting to destroy the game.

Of course we will naturally have the situation where refs as they are generally pretty useless at being consistent will apply the law in a totally indiscriminate way. That will frustrate just as much.

[Rooster]

So based on the tackle that's Reidy made last night are we correct to assume going forward that all you have to do is go exceptionally low off the corner of a ruck as the Scarlett's player did and it will be a yellow card and penalty try if contact is made as Reidy did. There is no way of defending this anymore. This will become the new choke tackle scenario where teams will take advantage of a rule to force a decision there way. So we will see the advent of coaches just getting their players to start ducking into tackles to gain an advantage. This actually has the potential of making the tackle even more dangerous and potentially more head injuries as a result...

Starting to lose the will with rugby, the rule makers don't actually have a clue and are starting to destroy the game.

Of course we will naturally have the situation where refs as they are generally pretty useless at being consistent will apply the law in a totally indiscriminate way. That will frustrate just as much.

As Kay and Moyne have pointed out it could well be potentially more dangerous if you try and stop a player legally.
At speed if someone is coming at you low with his head down you will have to go lower and either get a knew in the head as they suggest or I would think of another possible problem as if the attacker is already leaning well forward if you go under him he will go over the top and land on his head unless you hit him so hard he goes backwards laws of physics gravity and all that shiite