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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 713014" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>This!!</p><p></p><p>It's not the lack of tries that is turning people away from rugby, it's the standard of refereeing, the calls that are made the one week, and the other week they take a total different route. The citing commisioners who give harsh sanctions to certain players, and small to zero sanctions to others.</p><p></p><p>People are turning away from rugby because the game is getting way too technical. I look at my father, who was a Craven Week and Blue Bulls youth player long time ago. More than half of the laws/rules doesn't make sense to him. He's a practising attorney who specializes in drafting of contracts and he says the laws of rugby are way too technical and half of them doesn't make any sense.</p><p></p><p>Also, there are experimentations currently being done to look at ways to make the game better and more exciting. This year's South African Varsity Cup, has implemented the 2-referees per game experiment, as well as a new experiment, where the defending scrumhalf is not allowed to move past his no. 8 at scrum time, allowing the attacking team to have more space around the scrums to attack from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 713014, member: 40658"] This!! It's not the lack of tries that is turning people away from rugby, it's the standard of refereeing, the calls that are made the one week, and the other week they take a total different route. The citing commisioners who give harsh sanctions to certain players, and small to zero sanctions to others. People are turning away from rugby because the game is getting way too technical. I look at my father, who was a Craven Week and Blue Bulls youth player long time ago. More than half of the laws/rules doesn't make sense to him. He's a practising attorney who specializes in drafting of contracts and he says the laws of rugby are way too technical and half of them doesn't make any sense. Also, there are experimentations currently being done to look at ways to make the game better and more exciting. This year's South African Varsity Cup, has implemented the 2-referees per game experiment, as well as a new experiment, where the defending scrumhalf is not allowed to move past his no. 8 at scrum time, allowing the attacking team to have more space around the scrums to attack from. [/QUOTE]
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