Better Rugby Rules

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 Cuthbertson (RFU)
Roger Lewis (WRU)
Joe Lydon (WRU)
Bob Yeman (WRU)
Phillip Browne (IRFU)
Eddie Wigglesworth (IRFU)
Owen Doyle (IRFU)
Roy McCombe (SRU)
Frank Hadden (SRU)
Colin Thomson (SRU)
Andre Watson (SARU)
Johan Prinsloo (SARU)
Peter de Villiers (SARU)
David Nucifora (ARU)
John O’Neill (ARU)
Robbie Deans (ARU)
Santiago Phelan (UAR)
Ricardo Garcia Fernandez (UAR)
Marcelo Toscano (UAR), Steve Tew (NZRU)
Neil Sorensen (NZRU)
Steve Hansen (NZRU)
Nick Mallett (FIR)
Francesco Ascione (FIR)
Carlo Casagrande (FIR)
Rene Hourquet (FFR)
Jean Louis Barthes (FFR)
Didier Retiere (FFR).

Laws ProJect Group
Bill Nolan (Laws Project Group chairman),
Dr Syd Millar (Laws Project Group),
Bruce Cook (Laws Project Group/IRB development manager),
Ian McIntosh (Laws Project Group),
Dr Mick Molloy (Laws Project Group/IRB medical officer),
Graham Mourie (chairman of IRB Rugby Committee & Laws Project Group),
Paddy O’Brien (Laws Project Group/IRB Referee Manager),
Pierre Villepreux (Laws Project Group),
Richie Dixon (Laws Project Group),
Rod Macqueen (Laws Project Group).

COMMENTS: Bring the bloody ruck back idiots !

Source: ELVs have had their fun but don’t deserve fairytale ending – Wynne Gray

..”Rugby lost its way and a fair chunk of its soul when rucking was eliminated.

The dynamic attacking action which encouraged continuity was considered too dangerous, both for players caught lying near the ball and in the battle for parental approval….the greatest crime was reducing rucks to some sort of scrabblefest while the referee resembled someone blindfolded at a children’s party trying to pin the tail on the donkey. Add to that approval for a minority of defenders to pull down rolling mauls and the game quickly lost its mojo and many of the facets which delivered its uniqueness.”….