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Stoo The Zoom ![]() British and Irish Lion ![]() ![]() Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 153 |
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I would not be surprised so that in order to stop high tackles the powers that be require a visible line on the shirts and any tackle over that line be deemed high.
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Raider999 ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 18 Jan 2013 Location: Crawley Status: Offline Points: 4455 |
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Not much point when a top referee talks the TMO into downgrading 2 Samoan high tackles with force to the head to yellows rather than Reds on basis the recipient was ducking! Absolute bottle job - If they aren't reds then there won't be one in this World Cup. |
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Stoo The Zoom ![]() British and Irish Lion ![]() ![]() Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 153 |
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Too true Raider999 but again this would be above "the line"
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Sid James ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 28 Jun 2013 Location: East Yorkshire Status: Offline Points: 1660 |
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Interesting to hear of a disciplinary directive from our Constituent Body - YRFU.
If a player is sent off for a high tackle, if there is no video footage available to view, the player should be banned for 6 weeks. I would imagine that this will primarily affect players playing at levels below 1stXV. If some lower level ref's continue with their over enthusiastic approach to the laws i.e. lets try and fit all of the laws into a match regardless, this YRFU directive could lead to numerous 2ndXV, 3rdXV, Colts etc players spending unwarranted weeks watching rather than playing. I believe that the ref's really do have a duty to mitigate the circumstances in their disciplinary reports, if there is any doubt at all with regard to 'malicious' intent.
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tulip ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Location: W Yorks Status: Offline Points: 2208 |
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Well I'm one of the old school. In my day we would not have dreamed about tackling above waist high.
It was not what we were taught at school. Maybe the laws need to change about keeping the tackled player above ground.or gaining possession by ripping the ball out in the tackle. |
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Thatbloke ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 02 Sep 2017 Location: Newport Status: Online Points: 1743 |
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Fully agree Sid but in our world of "fast-tracked" "by the book" young referees many of whom have never played the game I doubt your wish will be granted. However in the lower teams I think you tend to get far more empathy from the ref, most of whom have played themselves for a long time, don't want to "climb the ladder" and quite frankly can't be bothered spending their Su days compiling onerous reports
Think the moral of the story is make sure your 1st XV games are recorded |
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FHLH ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Cambridge Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Location: Cambridge Status: Offline Points: 5331 |
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Agree 100%. There's not much you can do against a driving lower leg tackle - knee to ankle, but it does give the opportunity to keep the ball in play which is not beneficial defensively.
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