Better Rugby Rules

Source: The biggest problem in rugby today – Planetrugby.com

An interview with Guy Noves – Toulouse Coach

An important Extract..

When it comes to the laws governing the contact area and playing on the ground, generally speaking I think we’re allowing the referees too much room to interpret the rules. If three people watch the same match, you’ll get three different impressions of the sanction needed for a error in a ruck because all the laws can be interpreted in certain way. For me that’s the biggest problem in rugby today, we need laws that don’t depend on an interpretation.

COMMENTS:This is why pre 1995 rugby there was traditional ‘rucking’. Take the interpretation risk away from the refs and let the players do a bit of self rule ! After a decade of IRB law makers failing with trying to police the ruck with the ref whistle, its time to go back to what worked. BRING BACK THE RUCK !

There are those that say that rucking is ‘barbaric’. This leads to biggest nervous quiver the IRB has, that is large men giving a first five a bit of slipper on the wrong side of the ruck with all to see on the TV close up. Personally, I think it would great for ratings ! After all TV has been around since the 1950s, and its only in the last 10 years the IRB became nervous, primarily from sponsors and TV networks who didn’t understand the concept that force the IRB hand to bend to there PC thinking ! Maybe IRB should put rugby first.

BRING BACK THE RUCK !
BRING BACK THE RUCK !
BRING BACK THE RUCK !