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<blockquote data-quote="bluggerme" data-source="post: 327766" data-attributes="member: 42796"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I think that the new breakdown laws have ruined the contest at the breakdown. I think that players like McCaw were so good at getting to their feet quickly and snatching the ball (and it's really not an easy thing to do!) and not allowing this puts the initiative in the hands of the team in possession. Ok you might think that that encourages them to attack but Rugby Union is a contest, if we didn't want to contest the ball we would play rugby league. And quick turnover ball makes for exciting running rugby! If you go back even further than 5 years a good openside would turn the opposition in the tackle and allow his teamates to ruck over and get turnover ball. Again wWhat was wrong with this?</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Unfortunately you can generalise how referees apply the laws at the breakdown; in theory the laws are the same for both the attacking side and the defending side but referees tend to referee the defending side much more than they do the attacking side i.e. going off their feet, coming in the side etc. You may argue that referees cannot penalise every minor infringement but they can. If you ever watch a good team that's say 2 points ahead with 10 minutes to go. They will defend like mad in their own half and very rarely will they concede a penalty, this is because they usually know exactly what they are doing when they have been conceding penalities for the first 70 minutes of the game. It just goes to show that professional players know the laws to the letter when they have to.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Something else that has developed due to the IRB's multitude of changes in the last couple of years is aerial ping pong. This is horrendous to watch and surely something needs to be done about it. To be fair the best sides tend to engage in it e.g. NZ would prefer to run it back at you than play ping pong but far too many of the 6 Nations matches have now descended into these awful open play kicking duels. How this is dealt with is probably another debate all by itself.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bluggerme, post: 327766, member: 42796"] [FONT=Tahoma]I think that the new breakdown laws have ruined the contest at the breakdown. I think that players like McCaw were so good at getting to their feet quickly and snatching the ball (and it's really not an easy thing to do!) and not allowing this puts the initiative in the hands of the team in possession. Ok you might think that that encourages them to attack but Rugby Union is a contest, if we didn't want to contest the ball we would play rugby league. And quick turnover ball makes for exciting running rugby! If you go back even further than 5 years a good openside would turn the opposition in the tackle and allow his teamates to ruck over and get turnover ball. Again wWhat was wrong with this?[/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Unfortunately you can generalise how referees apply the laws at the breakdown; in theory the laws are the same for both the attacking side and the defending side but referees tend to referee the defending side much more than they do the attacking side i.e. going off their feet, coming in the side etc. You may argue that referees cannot penalise every minor infringement but they can. If you ever watch a good team that's say 2 points ahead with 10 minutes to go. They will defend like mad in their own half and very rarely will they concede a penalty, this is because they usually know exactly what they are doing when they have been conceding penalities for the first 70 minutes of the game. It just goes to show that professional players know the laws to the letter when they have to.[/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Something else that has developed due to the IRB's multitude of changes in the last couple of years is aerial ping pong. This is horrendous to watch and surely something needs to be done about it. To be fair the best sides tend to engage in it e.g. NZ would prefer to run it back at you than play ping pong but far too many of the 6 Nations matches have now descended into these awful open play kicking duels. How this is dealt with is probably another debate all by itself.[/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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