Source: Rugby need to entertain again – Toby Robson
Hanson extract…
Assistant coach Steve Hansen wasn’t hiding from the issue upon arriving at the All Blacks’ High St hotel.
Rugby was in need of an entertaining and free-flowing test match.
“Kicking has overtaken most of the game,” he said. “They tried to change all the rules [with the ELVs] [...]
Source: Sky cuts Mexted ‘for criticising NZRU’
Extract…
Rugby personality Murray Mexted has claimed he was suspended from the Sky commentary team after criticising plans to cull four teams from the Air New Zealand Cup.
Mexted made the revelation while speaking at a breakfast to Wairarapa businesspeople and his comments were picked up by the Wairarapa Times-Age.
The former [...]
Watching the first three weeks of international rugby downunder it was great to see the French, Lions and Sth Africans use the mual. The ELVs by default had removed it from the game, now its back and good to see as an option of forward power. See blog villians for those that dont understand rugby [...]
Source: Deans one step ahead of Henry in adjusting to whole new maul game- Spiro Zavos
Danie Craven, the most important authority on the laws in the history of the game, once said that when one change was made it often affected other aspects of play. He used the analogy of pulling a thread from a [...]
Source: Full ELVs deserve a fitting farewell- Spiro Zavos
Extracts…
THE Super 14 final at Pretoria next Saturday night between the Bulls and the Chiefs will, unfortunately, be the last major match to be played under the full ELVs. Unfortunately, because the two semi-finals were matches that reflected the best of the rugby code, with sweeping attacks [...]
On May 13 the IRB Council approved…the following…
Recommendations for the IRB CouncilThe following is recommended to the IRB Council for adoption into Law:
Law 6 – Assistant Referees able to assist Referees in any way the Referee requires
Law 19 – If a team puts the ball back in their own 22 and the ball is subsequently [...]
Source: Referees making rugby a lottery – Marc Hinton
Just a short posting today..
Most of the whistle occurs around the ruck. Hands in, off the feet, off side, dangerous play, etc.
The RUCK is the most important phase during an attack as it allows continuation of the attack before (hopefully) the defending team reforms its defense. [...]
Source: Deans predicts ‘perfect game’ from ELV changes - RugbyHeaven.co.nz
Extract..
“Now there’s an average of about 24 total sanctions, 17 of them would be free-kick, seven would be penalties.
“You turn those around, you’d be close to the perfect outcome and we agreed on that.
“We’re not far way, personally I think, from the perfect game.”
COMMENTS: If you go [...]
Source1: Thank goodness aweful ELVs have left the building – Stephen Jones
Source2: The Laws that killed rugby – Stephen Jones
Extracts..Source1
Those tests that had not already been sent back to the Frankensteins of the International Rugby Board’s awful Laws Project Group were voted out of existence. The main European unions took a lead, South Africa finally [...]
Blog Opinion.
The Y2K fear of rolling over dates from 1999:11:59:59 to 2000:01:01:01 created fear that our digital computer world could come to stop. The fear of this sparked massive IT expenditure 3 years prior the year 2000. The IT world loved it, yet most of it didnt need to happen, a clever industry spin to [...]
King Andrew and his team saved rugby from the liberal thinkers ! All Hail the king !
Source: RFU celebrate victory in ELVs battle – Scrum.com
Rob Andrew – RFU Director of Elite Rugby England
Kevin Bowring – RFU Elite Coach Development
Chris Cuthbertson – RFU Council member RFU ELV task group
Ian McGeechan – British and Irish Lions [...]
Source: Fitzy blasts New Zealand rugby – Greg Ford
Sean Fitzpatrick Ex All Black and major donut on the English scene said some home truths that should not be ignored.
“In terms of what I am seeing in Super 14 compared to the Premiership and Heineken Cup, it is quite clear one game is better than the [...]
Much fuss has been made about the ruck and the how to police it, NZRU Ceo Mr Tew finds favour with the current southern ELVs with the free kick approach, yet the northern six nation teams find favour with the stiff arm penalty, and they have attracted much criticism for not trialling the new ELVs. [...]
Source: Frustration with some Super 14 refereeing – Grant Fox
Grant Fox one the most brilliant first five eights to ever put on the boots, was not thinking so smart 12 months ago, and good on him for going on record to say so, he got some elements of the ELVs so very wrong. I also [...]
Source: Teams to pay the penalty – Toby Robinson
Is it possible the old fuddy-duddies up north have got a point?
We got the ELVs because fans and players complained the game had become too slow. Too many rolling mauls, too many reset scrums, too many lineouts, too many shots at goal.
The theory behind the changes remains [...]
Source: Forget mauls – bring back rucks – Inga
Legitimate rucking, and I’m not referring to stomping here, would free this area up. I know the image of the game needs protecting and violence cannot be tolerated.
So to further help in this regard, I would also propose that rugby introduce the league-style report system, whereby referees [...]
NZRU CEO Tew just doesnt get it !
Source: Tackle zone remains game’s spaghetti junction – Martin Davidson
…”Rugby’s spaghetti junction remains an unresolved mess despite ongoing efforts by administrators to clean up the adjudication of the breakdown area.Officials are still grappling to find a universal answer to clean up the tackle zone to ensure a fair [...]
Source: Ian McGeechan joy as maul preserved in ELV shake-up - Mick Cleary
ELVs RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION INTO LAW:
Assistant referees allowed.
Kicking directly into touch from ball played back into 22 brings no gain in ground.
Quick line-out throw may go backwards.
Player in opposition to player throwing in to be two metres away from line-out and touchline.
Pre-gripping of line-out [...]
Source: Problem ELVs bite the dust - Dan Retief
Members at the ELV IRB conference
Bernard Lapasset (IRB chairman)
Bill Beaumont (IRB vice-chairman and Laws Project Group)
Mike Miller (IRB chief executive)
Oregan Hoskins (IRB executive committee)
Giancarlo Dondi (IRB exec)
Peter Boyle (IRB exec)
David Pickering (IRB exec)
Jean Pierre Lux (IRB rugby committee)
Geraint John (IRB rugby committee)
Francis Baron (RFU)
Rob Andrew (RFU)
Kevin Bowring (RFU)
Chris [...]
Source: British and Irish Lions coach Ian McGeechan to warn IRB over ELVs – Gavin Mairs
Important Extract:
..”There has been widespread criticism that the impact of the ELVs, which include removing the maul as an attacking option because the defending team are now allowed to legally collapse it, has led to mindless kicking and resulted in [...]
Source: Rugby World Unites to Drive out ELVs – Stephen Jones
Extracts..
..”RUGBY union is set to abandon nearly all the radical experimental law variations (ELVs) that have been trialled this season. The Sunday Times understands that the sport is preparing to deliver a damning verdict this week on the experiments, which many believe are responsible for [...]
The above instrument is required to fix the ELVs.
Wynne Gray and Laurie Mains this last week have written articles stating what rugby has missed in the last 15 years, and readers of this blog know what I am going to say, BRING BACK THE RUCK ! Revolution is in the ranks, let’s hope the journos pick [...]
Laurie Mains, along with Wynne Gray (NZ Herald Senior Rugby Writer) have said it out loud “BRING BACK TRADITIONAL RUGBY RUCKING”…
Source: Laurie Mains in laws plea - Richard Knowler
THIS ARTICLE DESERVE A FULL REPRINT
A frustrated Laurie Mains has slammed rugby’s lawmakers and pleaded with them to stop changing the rules.
He also despaired that “PC crap” [...]
Source: We need to sort out ELVs – Marc Hinton
Cooper said..
But the Hurricanes coach was prepared to speak out on the subject of the ELVs and the controversy that’s swirling around the IRB’s pet law changes.
“The ELVs have just given a whole lot of knockers of the game an opportunity to have a crack at [...]
Ronan O’Gara enters the history books..FOREVER !
POINT: With all the rugby on this weekend around the world the best game of rugby can be awarded to the GRAND SLAM game. Question, how can you see the north taking a liberal view on the southern ELVs? Well you cant! The southern ELVs will be watered down to [...]