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Smart ball technology to be used at World Rugby U20 Championship https://the42.ie/6069937
Is this fixing a problem that doesn't really exist?Smart ball technology to be used at World Rugby U20 Championship https://the42.ie/6069937
Yeah so that won't work you have people yelling at the tech when the ball go forwards due to momentum before release.Direction of hands is the law though. All I can see this doing making lineout placement more accurate and possibly groundings if they can differentiate between ball hitting a body and ball hitting ground.
I'd imagine it would be smart enough to take that into account.I read the momentum of the player will be taken into account with the tech. Unless this is a future thing.
There were a couple of lines-out, and a few forward passes in the first couple of rounds (and I think I remember one grounding); beyond that, we only know if the commentators tell us that the tech told the ref; rather than the officials spotting it for themselves. I remember at least one not-straight call where the commentators said that the tech had told the ref, but that he surely already knew.Yeah the only time I remember seeing/hearing about it was for a not straight lineout in the one of the first games