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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 712995" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>If a mid-grade referee and 30 or so teenagers can grasp the suggested Law changes in a 30 minute classroom session and a 60 minute trial match, why would professional rugby players and referees given weeks of training and several preseason games not be able to do so?</p><p></p><p>Plus, there is no real additional complexity to the Laws. The ruck/maul 5m just moves the offside line back - retiring players have to go 5m further back, joining players have to approach directly behind the ruck/maul and rejoining player just do what they have always done. </p><p></p><p>The scrum penalties are even easier. You don't have to remember which is a free kick and which is a penalty kick; if its a scrum they are all indirect penalty kicks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 712995, member: 20605"] If a mid-grade referee and 30 or so teenagers can grasp the suggested Law changes in a 30 minute classroom session and a 60 minute trial match, why would professional rugby players and referees given weeks of training and several preseason games not be able to do so? Plus, there is no real additional complexity to the Laws. The ruck/maul 5m just moves the offside line back - retiring players have to go 5m further back, joining players have to approach directly behind the ruck/maul and rejoining player just do what they have always done. The scrum penalties are even easier. You don't have to remember which is a free kick and which is a penalty kick; if its a scrum they are all indirect penalty kicks. [/QUOTE]
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