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Rugby World Cup 2023
[RWC19 Warm-Up] - Wales vs England
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<blockquote data-quote="Every Time Ref" data-source="post: 953990" data-attributes="member: 71826"><p>I agree with this.</p><p></p><p>What the referee did was wrong. It wasn't legislated in the law, but the fact that this is the first time it has happened shows that there was already a VERY clear understanding in place across the rugby world (professionals, amateurs, fans, referees alike) that referees should not restart until both teams are ready. There are more sources than just the written law book for codifying how rugby is officiated, the game is chock full of stuff that isn't written down in the laws but is how things are done. If tomorrow a referee refereed a game by the letter of the law and nothing else, it would be chaos, and close to unrecognisable as our sport.</p><p></p><p>I was thinking of it as "convention" or "precedent", but "protocols" is probably a better way of looking at it.</p><p></p><p>So - why not just write it into the ******* rulebook??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Every Time Ref, post: 953990, member: 71826"] I agree with this. What the referee did was wrong. It wasn’t legislated in the law, but the fact that this is the first time it has happened shows that there was already a VERY clear understanding in place across the rugby world (professionals, amateurs, fans, referees alike) that referees should not restart until both teams are ready. There are more sources than just the written law book for codifying how rugby is officiated, the game is chock full of stuff that isn’t written down in the laws but is how things are done. If tomorrow a referee refereed a game by the letter of the law and nothing else, it would be chaos, and close to unrecognisable as our sport. I was thinking of it as “convention” or “precedent”, but “protocols” is probably a better way of looking at it. So - why not just write it into the ******* rulebook?? [/QUOTE]
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