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<blockquote data-quote="Cruz_del_Sur" data-source="post: 1092230" data-attributes="member: 55747"><p>Another thing i would change, yesterday if i could: </p><p>Team A is in possession. There is a ruck. PLayer a (from team A) ilegally holds player b (from team B) preventing player a from disengaging and going back to wherever he wants to go. </p><p>Player b 'overreacts' and team A is awarded a penalty. The conversation with the ref is always the same. Ref tells captain from team B something along the lines: 'i know he was being held but you he cant take the laws into his own hands, you need to let me deal with that.'</p><p>The problem i see is</p><p>- They NEVER or hardly ever deal with that</p><p>- that creates a HUGE incentive for players to illegally hold others in the ruck and this is the root cause of the problem. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Player A creates a (n ilegal) situation, player B reacts and B gets penalized. Well, you can tell yourself you are addressing it by punishing B ex post but that is naive at best, idiotic at worst. B didnt arrive at the ruck thinking 'hey, lets create a situation', A did. Yet A gets rewarded for that which reinforces A's incentives to do it again. </p><p></p><p>Not saying B is correct.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cruz_del_Sur, post: 1092230, member: 55747"] Another thing i would change, yesterday if i could: Team A is in possession. There is a ruck. PLayer a (from team A) ilegally holds player b (from team B) preventing player a from disengaging and going back to wherever he wants to go. Player b 'overreacts' and team A is awarded a penalty. The conversation with the ref is always the same. Ref tells captain from team B something along the lines: 'i know he was being held but you he cant take the laws into his own hands, you need to let me deal with that.' The problem i see is - They NEVER or hardly ever deal with that - that creates a HUGE incentive for players to illegally hold others in the ruck and this is the root cause of the problem. Player A creates a (n ilegal) situation, player B reacts and B gets penalized. Well, you can tell yourself you are addressing it by punishing B ex post but that is naive at best, idiotic at worst. B didnt arrive at the ruck thinking 'hey, lets create a situation', A did. Yet A gets rewarded for that which reinforces A's incentives to do it again. Not saying B is correct. [/QUOTE]
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